Enabling is doing for someone what they could and should be doing for themselves. Helping is doing something for someone which they are NOT capable of doing for themselves. As we minister to people our goal should be to help not enable! “Enabling is reacting to a person in such a way as to shield them from experiencing the full…
No. I did not mean “a hole in my heart.” I meant “soul.” There are people in your church or community who resonate with my statement. They may define it with different words but they understand the concept. They belong to a fellowship of people bound by grief which they did not ask to join. I originally wrote this post…
“Anxiety is the natural result of doubting the character of God.” It was statements like this that caused me to form a love-hate relationship with the “Trilogy” written by my friend Pastor Phil Moser. If you are like me, I needed to hear this truth but did not want to. However, I found that all three of the books I…