Thoughts create Emotions and Emotions create our Actions. So what do you do when someone is facing an emotion of despair during a potential divorce but their thought seems true…like “I want to keep my marriage vows.” How can “I want to keep my marriage vows” possibly be an unhealthy thought? This video will uncover the hidden danger in such an apparently healthy thought.
He SHOULD be more intimate. She SHOULD be more physical. My children SHOULD be better students. My toddler SHOULD stop whining. These should statements create frustration and anger that seems to eat away if we let them. This week we are going to attack these nasty should statements and decrease our frustration by learning how to stop “shoulding” on people.
Galatians 3:6-9: Paul tells us that “Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to him as righteousness” (Galatians 3:6) suggesting that justification by faith alone is what causes righteousness. However, James conveys what appears to be a very different thought…an apparent discrepancy. He states, “man is justified by works and not by faith alone.” (James 2:24). Is the Bible contradicting itself or can these verses be harmonized?