Faith
Listening IN
We hear the client with our ears, a passive activity, but we listen to them and formulate our responses, our powerful questions, and calls to actions that we hear from them and the Holy Spirit.
Read MoreThe Truth About Church Hurt and Church Wounds Podcast
The Truth About Church Hurt and Church Wounds with Pamela Mertz | Strong Tower Mental Health Podcast There was a lot of misinformation about who God truly is. There are many wounded and hurt people in the church AND Jesus loves the church. God calls all things to work together for good but God doesn’t…
Read MoreReceiving Love from Others
As I continue to walk this valley of the shadow of my mother’s death with the Lord Himself, I am more deeply aware of the love He has for me. This love, this substance that scholars and theologians have tried to define and describe for all of time, has manifested in so many tangible ways…
Read MoreLove Never Dies
It has been a while since I have taken the time to sit and collect my thoughts into print to share. So much has happened, and it’s been a season like no other in my life. Like many in the world today, there are multiple crises happening all at one time, and it can be…
Read MoreLoving One Another By Listening Well
This is the second command that Jesus gave to us after He said to Love God. He stated it several ways and then He gave us the “how” through John’s gospel and epistles. We can love because we are first loved by the Father. This is key and I emphasized this as “our part” to…
Read MoreLove God
This is a command, given to us by Jesus and we see it all over in Scripture. The Israelites received the 10 commandments in Exodus 20 and the first command was to honor God, and how to do that. To have “no other god” before Him. He is it, the One and Only. The…
Read MoreLearning More About Love Part 2
Love is…to be received first… To build upon the newer revelation of Attachment Love, I have been looking through that lens as I read about LOVE in the Bible. There is so much to learn about how we do this, and what if this newly revealed concept of attachment love is the key to unlock…
Read MoreLearning More About Love
Love…the Lord has been expanding my learning around love. I want to always be loving towards others, but know that I fall short of that often, either by accident and unawareness, or because I am weary in the moment. Loving God and Loving Others is a theme throughout the New Testament that I have studied…
Read MoreTake Courage
Courage. What does this word evoke in you? Courage is something that can be exciting, inspirational on the brave “edge” of the blade. But it can also be something just out of reach, something that is desperately craved in a moment of uncertainty, a moment of need. Many have written, spoken, and described COURAGE in…
Read MoreWho are you listening to?
Who’s voice are you listening to? Like many, I purpose each new year to settle into fresh habits. I exercise more, eat cleaner, and focus on getting enough sleep. One of my favorite things is to begin again in reading the Bible through in a year. (I almost made it last year and only had…
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