It’s not that God won’t give you more than you can handle, but that God will help you handle all that you’ve been given. from Half Truths: God Helps Those Who Help Themselves
03511 – God will Help You
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03297 – Realities of Mental Illness
We must normalize the awareness of the realities of mental illness, especially within the church. We must remove the negative stigmas surrounding therapy and counseling. One of the most common and most hurtful phrases I heard in my journey with mental illness was...
02611- A Chance for Making Better Decisions
If you think you are one way but everyone thinks you are another, perhaps it’s time to look in the mirror. Take a deep breath and consider how you might need to change or approach others. The entire world is not out to get you. It’s ok to grow. We get the chance to...
02230 – Anxiety vs. Faith
Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith.
01750 – Anger Can be Positive or Negative
Anger is an organic, living thing, and so is love. If we know how to handle our anger it can turn into love, just as when we know how to take care of our compost, we can transform it into a beautiful rose. Is garbage negative or positive? It can be positive, if we...
01633 – Find People!
Find people who can handle your darkest truths, who don’t change the subject when you share your pain or try to make you feel bad for feeling bad. Find people who understand we all struggle, some of us more than others, and that there’s no weakness in admitting it....
01539 – Peace and Conflict
Peace is not the absence of conflict; it is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.
01329 – Is There Another Way for Us?
If we seek a God we can handle, that will be exactly what we get: a God we can manipulate, suspiciously like ourselves, the wideness of whose mercy we've cut down to size. Is there another way for us?
00129 – Got More Than You Can Handle?
“God won’t give you more than you can handle” is idolatry of self-sufficiency hiding behind spiritual sound words. The truth is, people are dealing with more than they can handle all over the world. That’s why we need God and why he’s given us each other. I know. I’ve...