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Who Should Be Our Ultimate Source of Comfort and Protection?

Studies have shown that to which we "attach" ourselves in terms of seeking comfort and protection when we are young, will have a major...

Are You Afraid of Dying or Afraid of Living?

Gary Goerk

Are You Afraid of Dying or Afraid of Living?

Are you afraid of dying or afraid of living? During one of my visits with family members at the bedside of their dying loved one, one of...

How to Get Out of Your Own Way to Change

Gary Goerk

How to Get Out of Your Own Way to Change

Do you sometimes get the feeling you're taking one step forward and two steps back when trying to make changes in your life? Or, do you...

What If God Acted Like You and Me? Heaven Forbid!

Gary Goerk

What If God Acted Like You and Me? Heaven Forbid!

Another phrase that comes to mind is "perish the thought." Can you imagine what would happen if God acted like us mortals? Of course,...

How to Use a Zoom Lens When Making Your Choices

Gary Goerk

How to Use a Zoom Lens When Making Your Choices

One of the many lessons the Garden of Eden teaches us is seemingly small, inconsequential choices can be anything but small and...

Is Your Relationship with God a Spiritual "Side Hustle?"

Gary Goerk

Is Your Relationship with God a Spiritual "Side Hustle?"

Having a side job in addition to your primary job to supplement your income is nothing new. The practice has been called having a "side...

In Relationships, Lose Battles to Win War and Peace.

Gary Goerk

In Relationships, Lose Battles to Win War and Peace.

If you're married or in any kind of a long-term relationship, how many times have you treated your relationship as a battlefield, trying...

How You Can Begin to Build Your Self-Confidence

Gary Goerk

How You Can Begin to Build Your Self-Confidence

Self-confidence is not a personality trait as most people would understand it. It's a skill that helps you succeed in situations you...

How to Look through Spiritual Songlasses

Gary Goerk

How to Look through Spiritual Songlasses

Have you heard the rhetorical question, "What would Jesus do?" Me too. I think an equally important and interesting question is "What...

Opening Heaven's Gates with Keyless Entry

Gary Goerk

Opening Heaven's Gates with Keyless Entry

How many times do you have to engage your keyless remote to open your car doors? Once. Correct? How many times do you have to engage...

8 Things to Know About the "Excuse Express"

Gary Goerk

8 Things to Know About the "Excuse Express"

Whether you're in the habit of making excuses for not doing something, or trying to lessen your blame and responsibility for something,...

Find a Place to Pray in the Bible and Help Your Prayer Life

Gary Goerk

Find a Place to Pray in the Bible and Help Your Prayer Life

Have you thought about finding the perfect place to pray, thinking it would help you have a richer and more meaningful prayer life? Try...

Are You Emotional Distancing in Your Relationship?

Gary Goerk

Are You Emotional Distancing in Your Relationship?

If you and your spouse or significant other are having relationship problems, there's a good chance there is a communication gap between...

Gary Goerk

How to Create Habits, Not Resolutions.

Are you someone who is always poised on the New Year’s starting block ready to take off and live up to all those resolutions you’ve made?...

How to Go Through the Rain to Get to the Rainbow

Gary Goerk

How to Go Through the Rain to Get to the Rainbow

If you live long enough, you'll experience hundreds of rainy days. There's a good chance you'll also experience many days when you'll...

Gary Goerk

3-D Chess and the Christian Life

Have you ever played 3-D chess? If you have, you can relate to how important it is to make the right moves throughout one's life as a...

Gary Goerk

God Tells Us How to K.I.S.Spiritually

Have you ever noticed how we complicate how we understand our relationship with God? I would rather follow the K.I.S.S. principle, and...

Gary Goerk

Psalm 33: Praise Paves the Way

Paving the way for hope in thick or thin, good or bad, times of prosperity and times of trouble, times of wellness and times of illness....

Gary Goerk

Why Settle When You Can Soar?

Do you surround yourself with people who are willing to settle for the status quo and even less in their lives? Or do you take off on the...

Gary Goerk

How Do You Keep You from Success?

What has kept you from success in your profession, in your calling, in accomplishing your God-given purpose in life? What do you need to...