Shame

The Danger of Comparing Ourselves to Others

Comparison, Ministry, Shame

Counselors Reflect on Dangerous Calling by Paul Tripp: A Series to Care for the Care Takers of God’s People “In the face of his [God’s] glory I am left naked with no glory whatsoever to hold before myself or anyone else. As long as I am comparing myself to others, I...

Thoughts on “Shame Interrupted: How God Lifts the Pain of Worthlessness and Rejection”

Anger, Forgiveness, Grief & Loss, Shame, Suffering

Your dad says he’ll pick you up Friday afternoon and the two of you will go camping for the weekend. You don’t see him much because your parents are divorced and you live with your mom. The thought of your dad taking you camping feels so great. In fact, it makes...

The Gift of Food

Body Image, Eating Disorders, Shame, Women

“And God said, ‘Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps...

That’s so Funny it Hurts!?

Character, Pride, Shame

Thomas Carlyle despised it: "Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it".[12] Fyodor Dostoyevsky, on the other hand, recognized in it a cry of pain: Sarcasm, he said, was "usually...

It’s a Shame

Disappointment, Shame

In his book, “Shame Interrupted” Ed Welch asks the question, “What is shame?” “Shame is a deep sense that you are unacceptable because of something you did, something done to you, or something associated with you. You feel exposed and humiliated. Or, to strengthen...

Paranoid vs. Positioned in Christ

Pride, Shame

“Do not take to heart all the things that people say, lest you hear your servant cursing you. Your heart knows that many times you yourself have cursed others.”---Ecclesiastes 7:21 "Why are you so sensitive?" "You think everything is about you don't you?" "You take...