Doctors believe that resentment affords people a sense of superiority over he people they resent. It gives them a way (an unhealthy way) to place themselves a little higher in the pecking order. Resentment places an angry individual in the judge’s seat. Someone has said that our fantasies of resentment bring about neurotic pleasure and […]

Resentment is an ugly, deformed attitude. Helen Grace Lesheld wrote, “[resentment] grows. It distorts, reality. It keeps us chained to the past. Like bad air, it pollutes not just the bitter person, but those who come in contact with the person.” all of our relationships in ways we cannot predict.” Hebrews 12:15 says, “Looking diligently […]

In the Lord’s prayer, Jesus encourages us to pray that we would not be “led into temptation, but that God would deliver us from the evil one.” This is an important prayer, but what steps do we need to take to overcome temptation in our lives? Let me suggest a path:1. Recognize the possibility of […]