Is God good? Your initial response may be the one you learned in church or Sunday school; “God is good. All the time.” But what about your internal emotional reaction? It’s one thing for your head to “know” the “right” answer. It’s quite another for your internal nervous system, your feelings, to enthusiastically affirm the... The post Is God Good? Healing your Connection with God appeared first on Dr Carol Ministries.| Dr Carol Ministries
What would following Jesus right now, today, look like? In the life you actually have. With the history, traumas, strengths, resources, struggles that are your bucket of “stuff” to walk through in real life. With the spouse, boss, parents, children, friends or lack thereof that are actually in your world. Sometimes we believe that if... The post Transformation Starts Here: Following Jesus in Your Actual Life appeared first on Dr Carol Ministries.| Dr Carol Ministries
Some words are pregnant with emotional weight. Purity is such a word. At its best, it conveys the idea of wholeness, integrity, unmixed with contaminants, such as in pure gold. Purity is a Biblical concept, though not usually in the way most people think. But for many today, purity is a dirty word because its... The post Purity: More About the Inside than the Outside appeared first on Dr Carol Ministries.| Dr Carol Ministries
Feeling stuck in your Christian life? Repeatedly asking for forgiveness only to keep falling into the same sins? Are the same wounds messing with you over and over? Praying for deliverance that only seems to last for a moment? Perhaps you’re focusing on the wrong category. It’s healing, repentance, and deliverance that you need –... The post Healing, Repentance, and Deliverance in Becoming Whole appeared first on Dr Carol Ministries.| Dr Carol Ministries
Many people who are seeking to follow Jesus struggle with their sexuality. You might be like Paul, doing what you don’t really want to do or not doing what you know is right and good (Romans 7:15-19). Your thought life or fantasies or behaviors might feel out of your control, and you hate it. Along... The post How to Consecrate Your Sex Life to Jesus Daily appeared first on Dr Carol Ministries.| Dr Carol Ministries
Your body can be a touchy subject (no pun intended). Is your body a friend or foe? Many if not most of us have a love-hate relationship with our bodies, sometimes more hate than love. Humans are embodied beings; it’s how God made us. It’s not good to hate something God called good. So, what... The post Your Body: Friend or Foe? appeared first on Dr Carol Ministries.| Dr Carol Ministries
Paul AND Timothy. It is such a simple phrase — but it is loaded with the complicated and messy backstory of how the Gospel got...| Calvary Chapel