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Even on our best days, we can find ourselves angry, impatient, or defensive, simply from a random negative comment or a tweet on social media. How can we be kind, slow to anger, and find peace at that moment we feel led to frustration? What’s at the root of these negative emotional triggers? And how can we take steps to allow God and strong community to help us heal?

Living Free
September 1, 2019

When someone pokes at an unhealed wound in our heart, it’s easy to respond with anger, even rage. We fight. We push away. We accuse. Or, we may just withdraw to stay protected. We become trapped. God wants to heal our wounded hearts. He wants to return us to life, joy, and wholeness. What can…

Signs, Lies, and Wonders
August 25, 2019

How often do you sit back and ask yourself why something harmful or painful is part of your normal? Life moves at such a frantic pace for many of us, so it’s often difficult to make the time to figure out why we blow up at our family for little things, break down when a…

Humbly Seeking
August 19, 2019

Last week we learned about the symptoms of an emotional trigger, but what can we do about them? The way to undo triggers starts with humbly admitting that you have one and that you can’t solve it on your own. That humble admission to God provides Him with the permission to show us. God already…

Symptoms
August 13, 2019

Have you ever noticed how our society is easily angered or triggered? Just consider road rage, reactions erupting around political issues, emotional battles in marriages, or fear evolving out of the latest news report. In contrast, we desire to be loving, kind, patient, joyful, and self-controlled people. Yet, we all experience things that trigger us….