I owe Christians (even though I am one) an apology for how I used to see them. Like all young people, I used to see things as very black and white, and one such way was how I saw people as either Christian or not Christian. There was no real grade of Christian. You could be new, stagnant and … [Read more...]
This is the “Feel Sorry for Yourself” Culture
After a particularly long day of work, I recently shared with my wife: “Some days it feels like people just want to feel sorry for themselves,” and her response surprised me: “Yeah, but who doesn’t?” The topic of feeling sorry for yourself had come up before, so she’d had time to consider it, and on … [Read more...]
Guys & Girls Can’t be Friends… Most of the Time (7 Types of relationships for guys & girls not dating)
I have made many young people angry over the years with my claim that guys and girls can almost never be friends. If they are adamant that I’m wrong, what I sometimes add next is almost guaranteed to make them angry… which I’ll share shortly. A million years ago when I was a teenager, I worked at … [Read more...]
Anxiety and Idols (12 causes of anxiety)
There is no simple solution for when we have too much anxiety. I write “too much” because we’re supposed to have some anxiety in our lives. We’d be severely emotionally handicapped if we didn’t. Actually we’d probably be dead because we’d do something so stupid we’d get ourselves killed because … [Read more...]
Why Guys Don’t Listen to Their Wives
As a therapist, I regularly hear women complain that their husbands don’t listen to them. Does my wife complain about this? I don’t know. That’d require me to listen to her. What’s funny is a lot of women think I’m a great listener and will even say how lucky my wife is, but then I point out if I … [Read more...]
What Do I Do When I’m in Pain? (Where is God in the Pain? Pt 4)
As the father of a two and four year old girls, Anna and Elsa are regularly singing in our house. My girls love the shorts, Olaf’s Frozen Adventure and Frozen Fever, but nothing compares to Frozen 2. They let go of the first one because, as my four year old says, it’s better when Anna and Elsa get … [Read more...]
Where Does Pain Come From? (Where is God in the Pain? Pt 3)
One of the great misconceptions is to think when people are suffering that they’re being punished by God. That’s not how He works... at least not now. In the Old Testament we read stories like Noah’s Ark where God flooded the world to start fresh (aka caused a mass genocide), how God erased Sodom … [Read more...]
6 Reasons Why God Can Feel Absent (Where is God in the Pain? Pt 2)
When I was 18 my grandpa passed away. It was my first real taste of death and it hit me hard. During that following Christmas holidays, my brother and I had some of the young adults from our church over. In that group of visitors were a handful of young adults home for the holidays from Calgary … [Read more...]
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