Hi ~It’s a super common teaching: Your feelings will lie to you.And you’re supposed to combat your feelings with FACTS and REASON.But all that isn’t in the Bible at all. Nope, not there.You may have been taught that your emotions will lead you astray...
Hi ~When a friend told me the story about the dream she had about Jesus, I asked her to write a guest blog post for me.If you've been reading at Here's the Joy for long, you know that (even though I'm not charismatic, I feel compelled to disclaimer)...
Hi ~Years ago, Tim and I were charter members at an Independent Baptist church where we learned many years later the pastor was a predator (allegedly, for any lawyers out there).Back in the days in my late 20s and early 30s, those days of my naiveté,...
Hi Sometimes Tim (my husband) and I get to talking about those days in the 1990s when we first started discovering and understanding the Biblical truths that changed our lives and eventually led to my blog, Here's the Joy.One of those times recently...
Hi ~I’ve written about suffering some on my blog, but I’ve never put all my thoughts together. That’s what’s going to happen this year, God willing, in my next Untwisting Scriptures book. It will be #5—about Suffering, Death (to Self), and Life.Here’...
Hi ~I remember when I was young reading the heading of Psalm 102.“A prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and poureth out his complaint before the Lord.”(I used the King James in those days. Still do, mostly. 😊 )As a teenager who was not e...
Hi ~Complaining is an important topic to understand.When “complaining”—in a general sense, speaking about something bad in your life—is always seen as sinful and bad, then that’s one more way wounded souls are shut down.I’ve written about this at len...
Hi ~If you know much about the story of the Israelites getting out of Egypt and going to the Promised Land, you may know something about complaining.That’s because those Israelites sure did do a good bit of it. A lot like children that way. (Maybe th...
Maybe you or someone you love has been told, by a callous Christian, words that communicate, "It doesn't matter what happens to you, as long as God is glorified."And then when you see an atheist posting something about God being a narcissist, it secr...
Hi ~My last email may have made it sound like everything I learned about the Bible, I learned straight from God.But that isn’t accurate. There were others along the way who offered key insights, some small pointers in the right direction, some founda...