BP93 My name is Derek, and have I suffered with anxiety for years. My lovely anxiety cocktail includes OCPD--you know, Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder. I am preoccupied with rules, order,…
BP92 All of us have heard of the fictional character known as Superman. Most of us remember that his public persona was Clark Kent. Many of us are familiar with…
BP91 But I can hardly sit still. I keep fidgeting, crossing one leg and then the other. I feel like I could throw off sparks, or break a window--maybe rearrange…
BP90 The Lord’s Supper is good news for the mental health of humanity. In fact, it is great news for the soul. It embodies truths that will one day heal…
BP89 The nurse at the clinic roomed me in one of those small examining closets and told me that the doctor would be in to see me in a few…
BP88 Jonathan Edwards, the eighteenth-century theologian and pastor, wrote a book entitled, Religious Affections. In it, he discusses the interior of a person. He talks specifically about the will and…
BP87 Many family systems are frozen, encased in ice, incapable of moving forward. The members of these families are stuck like so many ships in an ice field. They are…
BP 86 I sit in a chair outside in the middle of February and gaze at a world around me that is shockingly different than the one I inhabited only…
BP85 The Bible begins with the tree of life (Genesis 2) in the Garden of Eden, and ends with the tree of life (Revelation 22) in the heavenly New Jerusalem.…
BP84 Charles Spurgeon once said, I have little confidence in those persons who speak of having received direct revelations from the Lord, as though he appeared otherwise than by and…