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Culture

Ask a Therapist: Coping with Stress, Worry, Anxiety

Shepherd's Gate Church

While 2020 is over, the effects of the year’s events are lingering. Everyone has lived through a year of stress, anxiety and grief. And it was hard. In December 2020,...

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Personal Stories
Gaylynne Giliberto

What’s In A Name?

What’s in a name? We often choose our children’s names to honor someone we know who has impacted our lives.  We even pick names for cars, boats and vacation homes—even...

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Faith & The Bible
Craig Meyer

What Does It Mean To Fear God?

“…Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.” Ecclesiastes 12:13 (ESV) Fear is a feeling we have recently experienced more than we would like....

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Faith & The Bible
Dianne Jacobsen

Don’t Go To Church

Imagine it’s Sunday morning back in the days when things were normal. You are busy getting yourself and/or your family ready to leave the house to go to church. Have...

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Culture
Kathi Repinski

Who Is In Control?

When I married my husband, Jim, I inherited quite a large family. But, I also wanted a child that we conceived together. We were ultimately blessed with Jeremiah, our first son. As this made twelve kids for Jim...

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Culture
Sharron Allen

The Church, Race, & Jesus

I grew up in a Pentecostal church where we clapped our hands, replied to pastor sermons with “amen” and “hallelujah,” shouting and speaking in tongues — far from the church...

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Kids & Family
Alecia Swejkoski

Showing Up

For half of my life, I was what you would call a “holiday Christian.” I was always searching for something, but I was searching in all the wrong places —...

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Personal Stories
Savanna DiStefano

What Does It Mean To Be Strong?

Since my mother’s sudden death in 2017, people began to tell me I was “strong.” In the hospital the night she died, during the funeral, after I returned to school...

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Faith & The Bible
Dianne Jacobsen

When Will Normal Show Up?

I long for my friend, Normal, to show his face. I miss him. I am beginning to doubt he ever existed. Normal usually shows up in my psyche when life...

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Faith & The Bible
Craig Meyer

Why Do Bad Things Happen?

Why do bad things happen? When “bad” things happen (like death, natural disasters, pandemics, etc.) we, as human beings, tend to reflect on our current relationship (or absence of relationship)...

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Culture
Gaylynne Giliberto

Four Ways to Stay Connected During a Pandemic

All of our lives were changed with the outbreak of COVID-19, and it seemed to happen overnight. Parents not only became professionals working remotely, but teachers to their children, co-workers...

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Personal Stories
Mary Anne Busse

Are You There God? It’s Me, Mary Anne.

Are you there God? That’s a question I’ve asked a lot. I mean, a lot! For too many years, I asked the question over and over again, feeling alone and...

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Kids & Family
Grace Serra-Boldman

When God Grants You a Special Needs Child

“God, please, don’t let this be true.” Like most mothers, I knew something wasn’t right from the start. Our precious, angelic baby, Catie, was just a little too quiet, even...

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