by Kathy Collard Miller | Mar 6, 2018 | abuse, adultery, anger, anger management, Bible reading, deception, fear of man, god, God's heart, God's love, intimacy, marriage, Never Ever Be the Same, people pleasing, Pure-Hearted, women of the Bible
I’m just like the Samaritan Woman with honed defensive strategies. My primary defensive emotional and verbal response is anger and blaming another. Or pointing out that person’s inadequacies. In all the times I’d studied the Samaritan Woman,...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Nov 13, 2017 | anger, peace, people pleasing, perfectionism, perseverance, procrastination, quiet times, resolutions
The winner of the drawing for Erica Wiggenhorn’s new book The Unexplainable Church: Reigniting the Mission of the Early Believers (a study of Acts 13-28) is…drum roll….Nicci Rameriz. Congratulations, Nicci! I know you’ll love Erica’s...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jul 22, 2017 | fear, fear of man, God's heart, God's love, people pleasing, prayer, prayer for others, studying Bible, surrender, thirst for God
Fear can block us from praying out loud in a group. We fear being judged because we said something with the wrong words, or in the wrong way, or with too many words. These fears are usually because we don’t want others to think poorly of us. Fear takes the focus off...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Jun 18, 2017 | anger, anxiety, assumptions, belief, beliefs, blame, compliments, contempt, contentment, fear of man, motives, people pleasing, perfect, perfection, perfectionism
Have you noticed how often we can say something like, “I don’t want to make her feel … sad…angry…left out…upset…” The possibilities are endless. As a result, we become very careful and try to figure out how to avoid...
by Kathy Collard Miller | May 10, 2017 | anger, anger management, anxiety, assumptions, beliefs, contentment, demands, hope, Never Ever Be the Same, overwhelmed feelings, people pleasing, perfectionism, why do I do what I do
There’s a reason you do what you do. Let me tell you a story. I had signed up to take refreshments to our adult Sunday school class. The sign up sheet for that month had been passed the previous month and I’d signed up knowing I would be out of town...
by Kathy Collard Miller | Mar 22, 2017 | anger, Bible reading, contempt, contentment, love, marriage, people pleasing, self talk, studying Bible, women of the Bible
Any of us can be tempted by discontentment. Just ask Leah, one of the many women in the Bible. She is a very needy woman who puts her sense of worth into her husband’s hands. From the very beginning, she is considered the inferior sister to her favored younger...
