Personal Growth
Everyone who has ever lived has encountered a particular problem: being born a little person in a big person’s world and being given the task of becoming a big person over time. [We all deal with] the problem of coming out from under a one-down relationship to the adult world and assuming one’s role as an adult equal with other adults… Becoming an adult is assuming the authority position of life, an important part of the image of God.
Contextualize It:
-Why do you think entry into adulthood, as described by Henry, is being delayed in the U.S.?
-How does knowing that self-esteem comes from gaining expertise in an area change the way we look at gifts and talents? Parenting?
-How do you intentionally put yourself out of your “comfort zone” in order to grow?
Jan 30, 2012 by Keith








There were two main ways in which the early Church erred in their thinking about Jesus. There were those who tended to see him only as this guy, this great guy mind you, but just a guy, with a special message and work that should inspire us.
The fate of Nebuchadnezzar is one of the most tragic in a long list of calamities that have overtaken the great and powerful of the earth. According to Daniel, it was just after the king have spoken those words of exulting pride as he walked in the palace of the Kingdom of Babylon: “Is not this great Babylon that I have built,” when he was attacked by that dreadful form of madness, called by the Greeks, lycanthropy (wolf-man), in which the victim fancies himself a beast.
It has been said that dreams are the garbage of the mind. But what happens when dreams are conduits of the supernatural?