Bridges: Burn Them or Spurn Them

BP 163 Anger is a tricky emotion. It can come from heaven or hell. It can kill others and it can kill you. I’m not talking about anger from others,…

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No Matter What Your Wound: Choose Love

BP162 This post will be short and hopefully, sweet. I have just a few bullet points here: Jesus said that the two great commandments are to love God and to…

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There Is Surviving and There Is Maturing

BP 161 You can’t dedicate all your strength to survival and expect to grow at the same time. My name is Joe. I survived my childhood instead of flourishing from…

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Counterfeit Self

BP160 Most of us are familiar with people who have made millions of dollars (even hundreds of millions like Frank Bourassa) creating counterfeit currency, art forgeries, or false documents. But…

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How to Master the Shame that Masters You

BP 159 According to God’s book, men and women are born in sin. They enter this world possessed by a sin nature with a natural ongoing propensity for sin and…

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Life Is About What Your Soul Swallows

BP 158 “Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him, since it enters not his heart but his stomach, and is expelled? .…

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Boulders in Your Heart

BP 157 Today’s post is short and sweet and—it has a rock-solid message: If you are not growing in your faith as you would like, maybe you have rocks in…

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On the Fence of Gender Identity

BP156 Everyone is sexually broken. Every man and every woman. No one emerged from the Fall of humankind without gaping fractures in their soul that hugely impact the self emotionally,…

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How to Thankfully Live Longer

BP 155 The Harvard Medical School in their periodical, “Harvard Health Publishing”, has an article about giving thanks. In its August 14, 2021, edition, the article says, “In positive psychology…

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Jesus and the High School Reunion

BP 154 I graduated from high school fifty years ago. I know because I just attended the half century reunion back in the rural Minnesota town where I grew up.…

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