As you navigate this Christmas season, there are a lot of things that can cause a level of anxiety, fear or dread. I urge you listen to the good news once more. It will provide peace and move you to action.
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Christmas is a time of varying emotions—but usually full of a lot of hustle and bustle. There are many opportunities to seize as we finish this year, and here are a few priorities to consider for your Christmas season!
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Peace is related to the internal order of our lives and not to the external disorder of the world. Peace on earth is what we want, but peace with God is something we already have.
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Christmas morning is a time to remember the arrival of Jesus Christ. His birth as a baby—and later death and resurrection—opened up the way for us to experience the security and protection that come with being born of God.
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If God has accepted you, can’t you accept yourself?
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How can we know that God is God if we are in anxious turmoil? Let’s look at some practical, real-life solutions for keeping anxiety at bay so that we can know the God who is the Prince of Peace!
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Does it feel easy or hard to praise God right now? Is there something in your life that makes it difficult to declare God’s goodness and love? Giving thanks is the means to experience God’s goodness and sovereignty because it changes our perspective and opens our eyes to truly see Him.
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Hope is the present assurance of some future good. David battled depression and wrote about it in Psalms. Through his writing we can see three scriptural ways to overcome depression.
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Shame is deeply seated and difficult to understand or remove, perhaps because it is from very old hurts. Nonetheless, it is possible to be rid of it. One of the transformational tools FIC uses to help us overcome shame and move forward into healing is recognition of our true identity in Christ.
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God requires us to be merciful as He has been merciful to us, and to forgive as He has forgiven us. The following are steps to forgiving from our hearts.
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We cannot make others what we want them to be, and they cannot keep us from being the person God created us to be. What we have freely received from God, we freely extend to others.
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It’s very easy to get down on ourselves—especially when you fail or make a mistake. It’s easy to believe that God did not design us the way we should’ve been, or He made a mistake. But God knew exactly what He was doing when He created you.
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We glorify God by making ourselves known as Spirit-filled believers who give thanks to God always and for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Church discipline is a process described in Matthew 18:15-20 as a progression from personal confrontation to a small group confrontation to church-wide awareness. Even though it may seem painful, the goals of church discipline are godly and good.
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This word precious in Hebrew means highly valued, esteemed, and prized. We're not precious and hidden in a back room. We're precious and always in His sight. We are precious in the best kind of way!
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The old self was crucified with Christ, but as believers we have to do our part in putting off the old self and putting on the new self, which means we must practice what God has already made us to be.
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Knowing your identity in Christ is will change the way you live—because you cannot consistently live in a way that is inconsistent with what you believe.
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For some of us, we take courage and strength knowing that we are God’s beloved. For others of us, it seems impossible, too good to be true, and we assume it must be for someone else. Let’s try to think about why we might react in either way.
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