What would life be like without the crippling damage caused by depression? How do we overcome it and live lives that flourish?

Prison Letters Part 2

S. C. Rees sees confinement as,

“That noble bird, soaring the highest above the clouds and enduring the longest flights, sinks into despair when in a cage"

How do you see your confinement?

What Are You Writing From Your Place of Confinement?

Prison Letters Part 1 is about how Paul viewed his confinement experience. Part 2 is about the writings to the Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, and to Philemon that came from his prison experience.

Has your pain affected your outlook on life?

Whether its by fears, rejection, loss, betrayal, abandonment, abuse, or failures, too many of us have been shaped by our pain in a way that is toxic and unhealthy.

Changing our thinking isn't enough to change our lives.

There are two ways you can see tragedy, through satan’s eyes or through God’s eyes. One is destructive, the other redemptive.

In this episode we ask the question, “which would you rather have, a life of predictable-certainty even though it isn’t real, or a life that is real but unpredictable and uncertain?”

What happens on the inside is more important than what happens in the outside.

We often mourn the things that were done to us but how much do we mourn over the things we did?

Jesus’ manifesto are His Beatitudes. They declare his intentions and culture for His kingdom and show what happens when his followers embody them.