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Believe It or Not
- “Who Touched Me?” (Life-Changing Encounters with God)
- Do You Want God’s Best or Is Yours Best Enough?
- If God Didn’t Always Exist, What Did? (It takes even more faith to be an atheist!)
- The Empty Cross (40 hours no one talks about)
- This Happened! (An Extraordinary, Unforgettable Encounter)
- What Really is Baptism into Relationship with God?
- What Really Is Relationship with God? (Married into the Family)
- What Then Shall We Say In Response to These Things?
- Where is God when Evil Storms into My Life?
- Who Really Am I In Christ? (Unveiling the Marvelous Mystery)
Thoughts, Feelings & Behavior
- A Man After God's Own Heart: David's Story of Addiction, Repentance, Relapse, Redemption & Restoration
- Addicted to Me (Barack Obama: "I was so obsessed with me…")
- Are You Under the Influence?
- Caged by Shame (Redemptive Healing)
- Criminal Mind: Restored to Innocence
- Depression Obsession (Finding the Right Road to Freedom)
- Do the Math! (Measuring the Value of What You Want Most)
- DUI: Desire Under the Influence
- Guilt & Shame, Scabs & Scars (Recovery from Your Past)
- I Hate Myself… or Do I? (Restoring Self-Esteem)
- Mind Games (What Gives?)
- Mourning Sickness… From Resistant to Repentant
- Neurochemical Warfare: Moral Sabotage
- Overcome F.E.A.R. (Failed Expectations Affecting Reality)
- Recovering Lost Things (From Fear to Faith)
- Scratch the Itch
- Solving the Mystery of the Human Condition
- Stuck in the Heartache of Deferred Hope
- Tastes Good, Does It? What's In It? (Stages of Repentance)
NewLIFE
- Baptized into the Harvest of New Life
- Because I’m Worth It! (Worthy of His Best & The Rest)
- BRAINWASHED into Something Beautiful… New Life!
- Dying Into New Life: The Reason We’re Born… Again
- Faithful and Just to Forgive (Made Complete in Love to Love Completely)
- Hopeless to Healed… Pain to Peace
- It’s Simply a Matter of Time
- Modeling Grace
- New Age Living (and oh by the way, your feet stink)
- One Thing You Lack: Finding the Joy in Giving (until it hurts a little)
- Solving the Mystery of the Human Condition
- The Good, the Bad, and the… Hey! What's that Monkey on my Back?
- The Pursuit of Happiness: A Bipolar Experience
- Under My Skin (when the answer is “NO” in the Age of Grace)
- Waging the War Within (Why Seek the Living Among the Dead?)
- What About You? Will You Also Leave Me?
Applied Recovery
- And Justice for All… When Love Isn't Fair (Recovery from Entitlement)
- Come to Your Senses (Restorative Recovery)
- Do the Math! (Measuring the Value of What You Want Most)
- Do the Math! (The Application of Rational Principles)
- Freedom Fighters (Setting Families Free)
- If I was Granted Three Wishes
- Letting Go: The Isaac Principle
- Listen with LUV … It's Not About the Nail
- Pop Goes the Weasel… Managing Conflict, Anger, & Resentment
- Power of the Least Interested Party (Recovery from the "Need" to be Right & in Control)
- Root Dug Deep That Thorny Weed (Resentment Recovery)
- Solving the Mystery of the Human Condition
- Step by Step… One Day at a Time (A 12-Step Study)
- Surrender It All or Surrender At All? (What’s In Your Camel?)
- When the Levee Breaks (Restoring Trust)
Revolutionary Faith
- “Who Touched Me?” (Life-Changing Encounters with God)
- Doubt in the Madness of the Perfect Storm
- Heaven, Hell, 3-Foot Forks, and My Problem with Hank
- If I Only Knew Then What I Know Now
- Justified… Just if I'd Never Needed a Root Canal
- Measured Faith (Belief Enough?)
- Mustard-Seed Faith: What’s so moving about that mountain, anyway?
- Open Sesame… The Way Out is the Way In
- Revolutionary Transformation (Evidence for Faith)
- Stock Exchange: Sound Investment Strategy
- Strike It Rich… Oil that Is!
- The Problem of Pain… A Study of the Father's Discipline
- Thirsty? (Never Thirst Again!)
- Trapped in a Life on Fire! (and still playing with matches)
- Walk on Water Lately? (“Faith is an ocean you can walk on”)
- What Is Your Ten-Thousand Year Plan? (When the time of perfection comes)
- Whoosh! (A Testimony of Divine Intervention)
Beware
- "Do I Know You?" (Beware of Dogs)
- Are You Numb to the Glory? (Beware of Complacency)
- I Can "Manage" Just Fine (Beware of Illusions)
- My Way or the High Way (Beware of the Idol)
- Romancing the Stone (Beware of What You Worship)
- To Believe or Not Believe? (Beware of Cynics Preying on Faith)
- Who is Born Again? – "Secret password, please…" (Beware of Self-righteousness)
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Solving the Mystery of the Human Condition
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project What is my problem? Why am I not happy? What does it mean to be happy? Why am I not fulfilled? What does that even mean… to be fulfilled… content… satisfied? What … Continue reading
Recovering Lost Things (From Fear to Faith)
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project As a mental health counselor working mostly with adolescent youth struggling with depression and despair (including suicidal ideation and behavior), my primary objective was to invest in each life through the therapeutic … Continue reading
One Thing You Lack: Finding the Joy in Giving (until it hurts a little)
It’s been brought to my attention that some of what I shared in this article was rattling the chains of religious legalism that we’ve been set free from by God’s amazing grace. So, before reading this article, please know that … Continue reading
Why So Arrogant?
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project So many people living in the United States are declaring that while Donald Trump may be the president, “He’s not my president.” Does one’s dislike for President Trump make him any less … Continue reading
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Tagged arrogance, atheism, atheist, authority of God, christian theology, Christians are hypocrites, church hypocrisy, evangelicals, hatred for authority, hatred for Christians, hatred for God, hatred for religion, institutional religion, pastors are hypocrites, religious hypocrites, religious studies, theology about God
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Do the Math! (The Application of Rational Principles)
The objective of this article is to assist in the understanding of how what you believe about your past experiences influences and affects how you behave, inevitably influencing and affecting present and future expectations and experiences. The purpose of this … Continue reading
Baptized into the Harvest of New Life
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project What really is baptism into relationship with God? Alright now, it is time to tell the truth. Let’s get really honest about this, people. There are billions of us over the life … Continue reading
The Pursuit of Happiness: A Bipolar Experience
— The look of joy piercing through hardship — by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project “What can this incessant craving, and this impotence of attainment mean unless there was once a happiness belonging to man, of which only … Continue reading
Where is God when Evil Storms into My Life?
“So good!” —Rich Wilkerson, Senior Pastor, Trinity Church, Miami, FL by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project How could a loving God, with the final say concerning all that exists and happens, allow bad things to go on in … Continue reading
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Tagged accountability, angry with god, bad things happen to good people, blame god, collective evil, consequence of sin, does really god care, evil, evil conscience, evil lottery, flood, floods, hurricanes, lottery, loving god, rain, resentment, sea of evil, sovereign, storm, tsunami, water, where is god
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What a day that will be!
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project The entire truth of God’s Word can be summed up in this message from Christ: Love God with your whole heart and love your neighbor as yourself. What would the world look … Continue reading
My Way or the High Way (Beware of the Idol)
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your … Continue reading
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Tagged entitled, entitlement, got to do it my way, idol worship, idolatry, my way, self-worship, selfish, selfishness
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What Really Is Relationship with God… Married Into the Family?
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project What is it about what is known as the Holy Trinity that is deemed crucial to Christian faith? How does one come to unravel the mystery contained in its wonder? What does it mean to … Continue reading
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Tastes Good, Does It? What’s In It? (Stages of Repentance)
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him! Psalm 34:8-10 Most of my life experiences include things that on their own are not good for … Continue reading
If I Only Knew Then What I Know Now
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project Regret can be quite powerful when it is a stronghold for the enemy to take advantage. Let’s take a look at Biblical accounts of people and situations when the it could be … Continue reading
Faithful and Just to Forgive (Made Complete in Love to Love Completely)
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project Everything we do and say either gets us what we want and value (need) most, draws us closer to what we want and value most, or drags farther away from what we want … Continue reading
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Tagged 2 Corinthians 5, avenge, Colossians 2, complete, forgive, forgive seventy times seven, forgiven, forgiveness, fullness of God, grace, mercy, mercy and grace, new creation, resentment, revenge, Romans 5 study, Romans 6 study, Study Romans 7, testimony of forgiveness, unforgiveness, unforgiving, vengeance, vengeance is mine, vengeance is the Lord's, whole
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Waging the War Within (Why Seek the Living Among the Dead?)
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project But very early on Sunday morning the women went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. They found that the stone had been rolled away from the entrance. So they … Continue reading
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Tagged ambivalence, ambivalent, discontentment, emotional distrust. supernatural, failed expectations, intellectual faith, power struggle, resistance, two dogs, two wolves
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What Is Your Ten-Thousand Year Plan? (When the time of perfection comes, what happens?)
Can you see the forest for the trees? by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project The King is indeed Coming! When we’ve been here ten thousand years… bright shining as the sun. We’ve no less days to sing God’s … Continue reading
What Is Your Ten-Thousand Year Plan? (When the time of perfection comes, will love be there?)
Can you see the forest for the trees? Give me a word – give me a sign Show me where to look – tell me what will I find? Lay me on the ground and fly me in the sky … Continue reading
And Justice for All… When Love Isn’t Fair
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project This is really quite long since there is a ton of Scripture. If you know the biblical stories, please advance through the text but there is a payoff at the end that … Continue reading
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Tagged control, control in relationships, equal, fair, faithful, forgive, forgiveness, giving, grace, gracious, jealous, jealousy, just, justice, leverage, leverage in relationships, love, mercy, power, power of the least interested, power of the least invested
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When the Levee Breaks (Restoring Trust)
by Steven Gledhill for FREEdom from MEdom Project Is trust something to be earned or is trust something that is lost? One person might say, “How could you? I trusted you, completely. I don’t think I can trust you anymore.” … Continue reading
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