Category: Thursday Therapy

Do you react or respond to difficult situations?
Personal Growth

Do You React or Respond? {Thursday Therapy}

Do you react or respond to unexpected and difficult situations? A response is a thought-out action that allows you to address an uncomfortable situation with grace. However, a reaction is usually the first action you express when confronted with an uncomfortable situation. You know what I mean, that initial, negative

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How to get rid of guilt from a post by Susan Gaddis
Easter

How to Get Rid of Guilt {Thursday Therapy}

How do you get rid of guilt when feelings of condemnation, blame, or “the bad guy” hang over your soul? Sometimes I’ve woken up in the morning with the “I’m the scum of the earth” cloud raining on my day. I don’t like it, and I know I’m not alone

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The Call to Holiness
Personal Growth

Why the Call to Holiness Equals a Call to Wholeness

The call to holiness for a Christian is a call to wholeness. The most important take-away for me from L.I.F.E. Bible College was Jack Hayford’s teaching on holiness and wholeness. They mean the same thing. Pastor Jack drummed into his students the practical reality of holiness as the recreating of

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Five things I learned from my mistakes
Personal Growth

Five Things I Learned From My Mistakes { Thursday Therapy }

Making a mistake doesn’t have to define us. Yet, as a counselor I talk to many people who interpret themselves by their mistakes. Others are quick to hold a spouse, child, or co-worker hostage to long ago failures. Some of us wear mistake-colored glasses that distort the world around us.

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What is True Repentance
Relationships

What is True Repentance? { Thursday Therapy }

Have you ever wondered what is true repentance after someone has asked your forgiveness, but continues to repeat the same offense over and over again? Yep, I think we’ve all experienced that in our relationships—with family, co-workers, friends, and even with Christians at church. Gossip, criticism, abuse, lying, misrepresenting others,

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How to Handle Rejection post at Holy in the Daily
Relationships

How to Handle Rejection

  Did you learn how to handle rejection during your formative years? Me neither. Most of us struggle to learn how to handle rejection as adults. It isn’t easy. Even Jesus suffered rejection during his ministry, and people still reject him. Can we expect anything less in our lives? I

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Don't miss the real valentine
Thursday Therapy

Don’t Miss the Real Valentine {Thursday Therapy}

Don’t miss the real Valentine. Every woman longs for a knight in shining armor who will protect her as his beautiful queen, and every man wants to be that king who defends his queen. Real life destroys that dream. Not one of us has what it takes to be that kind

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