When the Enemy’s Scheme Is to Delay Rest and Keep Serving
A Post Burnout Reflection: “You have time-off booked next month; just keep pushing through!” (Falling into the enemy’s scheme of Delay.)
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How to Prevent a COVID-19 Mental and Emotional Breakdown
Are you exasperated?
This week, we’ve been discussing the mental, and emotional strain that is being felt, related to COVID-19. But the virus itself is only one piece of the puzzle.
– There are relational impacts as friends and loved get sick.
– There is the financial impact of lost jobs, and an uncertain future.
– There is the community impact of social distancing, and self-isolation.The increasing pressure has shifting the conversation to ask, “How long can we live like this? Where’s the balance?”
We found a 3-step process.
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How Comment Streams Might Be Adding to Our Mental and Emotional Instability
Why is peace important?
When fear, stress, and anxiety of the unknown enters our lives, some of us feel the urge for conflict. We’re frustrated, but we don’t no where to place that frustration.Think about the past 2 months. When COVID-19 first broke, the comment streams were full of, “We’re in this together!” and “We will overcome!”
That quickly disappeared didn’t it?
Now the comment streams are battle grounds for people to lay out their complaints, and frustrations surrounding every topic under the sun. Thankfully, we haven’t turned on medical staff yet, but who knows what’s coming this week?
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Why Our Mental and Emotional Health Doesn’t Need the Tiger King Right Now (or Ever)
What does it mean, “to be found by him without spot or blemish”? (2 Pt. 3:14)
This is a pointer to Jesus, that He is the pure, spotless Lamb that was slain to atone for our sin. This points to His purity.
As we walk through uncertain times, we should try our best to be diligent in our personal purity, modelling Christ, as best we can. This can have a very positive impact on our mental, and emotional well-being.
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3 Reasons to Celebrate Easter, Even During a Pandemic
Maybe you don’t feel like celebrating this year? Sure, you’ve managed to scarf a chocolate bunny for breakfast, but it still feels off. I get it! It’s been a tough few weeks, and the world has been turned upside-down. Some of you would have planned family dinners today, but can’t. Some of you would have planned on travelling, but can’t. Some of you would have planned a community Easter Egg Hunt, but can’t.
This year is different.
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3 Damaging Outcomes of Over-Thinking the COVID-19 Crisis (and How To Prevent Them)
During the COVID-19 pandemic, people are clearly spending too much time alone, over-thinking our current circumstances.
We have witnessed some extreme thoughts and teachings ripping through society, and social media. There are teachers and preachers, bloggers and vloggers, pitching all sorts of predictions and prophecies.
In looking at the spectrum, the bookends of the over-thinking and false teaching seem to come to one of two conclusions: (1) The world is ending, or (2) it’s all a hoax.
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Waiting (and Spiritually Preparing) for COVID-19
From afar, Northerners like myself, have all been watching as COVID-19 spreads throughout the world. Although the health of Yukoners hasn’t been impacted in a major way as of yet, it is a definite possibility.
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4 Daily Choices Connected to Choosing Humility
Humility is daily struggle. But humble people make choices. In 1 Peter 5, we find four choices that stem from the single choice, to be humble. Out of a choice for humility, there are subsequent choices that are made.
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2 Keys to Understanding the Big Picture Behind Humility
I don’t think I’m the only person who struggles with humility. When life’s going well it’s not overly difficult. But when life is hard, humility becomes really hard! We feel like the world’s against us, or that no one is acknowledging our efforts in a particular circumstance or relationship. It gets really difficult to stay humble then. Until we understand the big picture…
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How to Submit Under Suffering
God calls Peter to write a letter of hope to a group of Christians who have been abandoned, and exiled for following Jesus. He calls them to “Be subject” (to submit) to government authorities that reject them. (1 Pt. 2:13-17) He calls servants to “be subject” (to submit) to earthly masters that persecute them. (1 Pt. 2:18-21) How can this kind of submission ever lead to hope? Can hope be found in submission?
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Why You’ll Never Look at Stones the Same Again
God uses Peter to present amazing theological truths held in metaphor, beginning with the words, “As you come to him,” (1 Pt. 2:4). Then backs up these truths, adding prophetic poetry as evidence, with the statement, “For it stands in Scripture:” (1 Pt. 6)
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3 Steps to Obtaining an Active Hope
What happens when following Jesus gets difficult? According to Peter, we’ve been called to an active hope! What does an active hope look like? Peter explains 3 specifics.
