Taking in God’s Love

by | Feb 2, 2016 | Recent Research

Juliet Caceres, PsyD. February is the month of love. What better time to contemplate the source of all love and to consider His extraordinary love for us? A “love” scripture often quoted is Song of Solomon 6:31: “I belong to my beloved, and his desire is for me.” What...

Lessons for the Clinician through the Steps of AA

by | Jan 28, 2016 | Recent Research

Raymond Alvarez, MS, LCSW As I began working in the field of substance abuse, I learned that addiction and Christianity have more in common than one might think. Four years ago, I was asked, “Why substance abuse?” At the time I shared that it is nice to work in a...

A Special Place with God

by | Jan 22, 2016 | Recent Research

Julie Woodley,  M.A. This place. This place that God has me in; this vulnerable, dependent space where I find pure beauty and joy has awakened my heart to do something more. It reminds me that the world is dying to know and experience this kind of extravagant love as...

Wait For It: Seeking God in Troubling Times

by | Jan 12, 2016 | Recent Research

Margaret Nagib, Psy.D. The Urban Dictionary describes the all too popular phrase “wait for it” as: “A sentence enhancing phrase used to illustrate the epicness of an object/situation/event.”   Epicness. Is that even a word? No doubt it’s another...

“But”

by | Aug 19, 2014 | Weekly Devotionals

Tim Clinton, Ed.D. and Max Davis    “You face your greatest opposition when you’re closest to your biggest miracle.” Bishop T. D. Jakes   “And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.”  G. K....

Above All Else

by | Aug 19, 2014 | Weekly Devotionals

Tim Clinton, Ed.D. and Max Davis “Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” – Proverbs 4:23 NIV “Satan uses all kinds of weapons to attack our heart. For me, these attacks often come in the form of some circumstance that leads...

A Very Real Opponent

by | Aug 19, 2014 | Weekly Devotionals

Dr. Tim Clinton and Max Davis “…in order that Satan might not outwit us. For we are not unaware of his schemes.”  — 2 Corinthians 2:11 “Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is...