Psalm 36:7 How priceless is your unfailing love, O God! People take refuge in the shadow of your wings. God’s love is unfailing even if everything around us fails. Many fall away from their faith as they don’t fully understand the love of God in suffering. Most Christians are over informed ignorant nerds. They are...
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11 June 2022 – Breaking Stigma and Shame – Part 7
1 Corinthians 6:5-6 I say this to shame you. Is it possible that no one among you is wise enough to judge matters between believers? Instead, one believer goes to court against another. And this happens in front of unbelievers! ‘Undo’ is one of the most used functions on a computer. This function is performed...
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10 June 2022 – Breaking Stigma and Shame – Part 6
Luke 17:12 As He(Jesus) was going into a village, ten men who had leprosy met him. They stood at a distance and called out in a loud voice, “Jesus, Master, have pity on us!” Lepers were forbidden by the law to have any contact with the people as leprosy was a contagious disease that had...
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09 June 2022 – Breaking Stigma and Shame – Part 5
Luke 7:39 When the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would know who is touching him and what kind of woman she is—that she is a sinner.”. Jesus was repeatedly confronted and accused by the Pharisees, however, in Luke 7:36-50 we see a strange invitation...
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08 June 2022 – Breaking Stigma and Shame – Part 4
Joshua 5:9 Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” So the place has been called Gilgal to this day. The meaning of the name Gilgal is “rolling.” The Hebrew word Gilgal means a wheel or circle, or something that rolls. At Gilgal there was something...
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07 June 2022 – Breaking Stigma and Shame – Part 3
Mark 10:48 Many rebuked him and told him to be quiet, but he shouted all the more, “Son of David, have mercy on me!” Shame leaves us psychologically shattered and physiologically paralyzed. Shoulders drop, eyes lower in order to avoid any eye contact with people who stigmatize and confidence level plummets to rock bottom. For...
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06 June 2022 – Breaking Stigma and Shame – Part 2
John 8:3 the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in the act of adultery. They put her in front of the crowd. The neurobiological effects of shame are found in the frontal lobe of the brain that activates the sympathetic nervous system generating the flight/fight/freeze response. Shame is a powerful force that would make us...
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05 June 2022 – Breaking Stigma and Shame – Part 1
Luke 22:62 Peter left the courtyard, weeping bitterly. Peter was plagued by guilt and tormented by shame after he denied Jesus three times. The stigmatized right hand man of Jesus went and hid himself in shame. He was the only one found at the courtyard of Caiaphas, the High Priest, after Jesus was arrested but...
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04 June 2022 – Rattling the Cage – Part 7
Acts 28:3 Paul gathered a pile of brushwood and, as he put it on the fire, a viper, driven out by the heat, fastened itself on his hand. Paul rattled the pile of brushwood and out came a viper from the cold sticks and clung onto his hand with its fangs. Snakes and vipers curl...
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03 June 2022 – Rattling the Cage – Part 6
Mark 3:5 He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, “Stretch out your hand.” He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored. The Sabbath starts before sunset on Friday and ends an hour after sunset on Saturday, so it lasts for about 25...