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Dealing with An Anxious Heart

Let us be honest, everybody is anxious about something one day or another (or even one moment or another), the difference is what makes us anxious, how anxious we are, and how we deal with our anxiety. We can become anxious when we think of the difficult or challenging situations that we face now or that we will or might face in the future. We keep thinking, “What if this happens? What if that happens? What if....What if....What if...?” The list does not end. We become worried that it will cost us too high a price to deal with the current or future/potential difficulties, that it might be too much for us to handle, that it will overwhelm us, like the ocean waves swallowing us up, making us no more, all alone and helpless in the depth of darkness.

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Where Can We Find Hope?

When life feels very hard and pressures are high, when we feel let down and pressed down, when days feel dark and life pale, when joy feels far gone with no trace to hold on to, how do we find hope and remain hopeful in God?  The Apostle Paul gives us a great reminder in Romans 15:4, where he says, "For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through endurance and through the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope."

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What Forgiveness Truly Means

We talk about or we hear people talk about forgiveness so much, and we often hear people tell us that we must forgive as a Christian, but we might feel confused sometimes - What is forgiveness really? Can I really forgive when the pain is so deep?

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从焦虑到平安 From Anxiety to Peace

When we are overwhelmed with anxiety, even experiencing panic attacks, no one and nothing releases it from the root, except the peace of Jesus Christ. 当我们被焦虑所淹没，甚至经历恐慌时，除了耶稣基督所赐的平安之外，没有任何人或事能将它从根源解除。

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Are You Suffering from Domestic Abuse? – Identify Domestic Abuse through the Cycle of Abuse

First, let’s review the definition of domestic abuse. Domestic abuse is a pattern of coercive, controlling, or abusive behavior in an intimate relationship, where one person uses such behaviors to gain or maintain manipulation, control and domination over another person. It is a type of oppression, including physical, sexual, emotional, mental, spiritual, psychological, financial abuse/oppression.

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Anger toward God

It’s not surprising that there are many sufferings in life, but sometimes we would meet Christians who are full of anger toward God when they are going through sufferings or unpleasant things in life. Sometimes, we ourselves might complain about God or be angry toward him, accusing him of being unjust, unrighteous, and unloving towards us.

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Listening Wisely 倾听的智慧

Have you ever reacted quickly and emotionally to what another person had just said, without asking them what they really meant by what they said and getting clarification, but only found out later that you had misunderstood them, that they didn’t mean what you thought they meant? 你是否曾对别人说的话快速和情绪化地作出反应，却没有先问对方他们究竟是什么意思或请他们作出澄清，而后来却发现是你误会了他们，他们所要表达的意思并不是你以为的那样？