Not faith. Is cowardice.

They'll print that crap but not really important news.

You see what's wrong with America. Stupid people. Shrieking monkeys.

Friends don't let friends be retarded morons.

I can't believe people actually pay good money to those clowns.





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January 9, 2016 in City

Faith and values: Only affirmation needed comes from God

Steve Massey

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Whose approval do you seek?

The answer most certainly will shape the way you spend your time and emotional energy this year. It’ll shape the quality and genuineness of your relationships and influence your enjoyment of life.

To whom do you turn for affirmation?

If we get our sense of approval primarily from other people, we find ourselves adjusting behavior, priorities and opinions according to the whims of those people.

Look around you and see the evidence: People pleasing is a prison.

At its extremes, people pleasing tempts us to isolate, or live in duplicity, always insecure in our own skin.

People pleasing places us under the fickle control of what others think about us or, worse yet, what we imagine they think about us.

Sound familiar?

The Bible warns us against this crippling preoccupation: “Fearing people is a dangerous trap,” says Proverbs 29:25.

Happily, there is not only a bandage for people pleasers, but a cure. It is to find our security and worth not in others, or even ourselves, but in Jesus Christ.

Jesus’ life, death and resurrection is a loud shout of God’s opinion of us. He loves us immeasurably, and sent his son to live a perfect life for us and die on the cross to pay the penalty for our imperfection.

God approves of us thoroughly and completely as we trust in what Jesus has done for us. Friends, there is no greater source of strength and confidence than to be approved by God himself.

What the Bible calls “fear of man” goes by other names: peer pressure, co-dependency, shame.

Whatever we call it, its symptoms are many: an inability to say no; overcommitment; an obsession with self-esteem; fear of revealing your true self; lack of confidence; depression; anger.

The fear of man is indeed a dangerous trap.

We get out of this trap by trusting in God and living the kind of life he approves.










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a story about fairies or other mythical or magical beings, esp one of traditional origin told to children



- posted by H.V.O.M - Kerry Wayne Burgess 6:22 PM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Sunday 10 January 2016