Your Emotions Matter to Jesus
We are all experiencing a myriad of intense emotions in this season. Did you know that Jesus, the Good Shepherd, wants to find and befriend…
Tag: Empathy for Emotions
4 Steps to Lead Like Jesus
I was scared when God called us to start a nonprofit ministry of soul care for pastors and leaders. One day I was hiking and…
A Simple Prayer to Increase Your Energy
It’s only 12 words, but it’s a powerful prayer. It can activate your emotional intelligence so you’re more loving and more effective in your work.…
The Emotionally Smart Leader
Sadly, we’ve all seen Christian leaders fail because they lacked emotional wholeness. Our godly intentions can be overrun by our personal shortcomings. Angry reactions, lustful…
The Blessing of Emotions
Emotions get a bad rap in many circles today. They’re vulnerable and get broken. They’re messy and don’t look right. We prefer thinking, analysis, and…
3 Steps to Calm Emotions in Trauma
Waves of trauma have battered us in recent weeks. Just as we stand back up we get knocked down again. Without help your soul could…
How to Feel Your Emotions with Jesus
To become like Jesus we need to befriend his emotions. It’s important to appreciate that Jesus is a feeler who experiences and expresses deep and…
Unforsaken: Your Greatest Need
On the cross, Jesus shows that you are unforsaken by God. It’s your greatest need. It’s the greatest need of the people you care for,…
COVID-19: Help for Grief
It’s like there’s a dark cloud called COVID-19 hovering over us. It’s generating worry, irritableness, discouragement, and especially tiredness. What is this dark cloud? What…
COVID-19: Feeling God’s Love Despite Social Distancing
“My skin screams to be touched!” a single man cried to me. He’d been living alone and that’s how deeply he longed to feel close…