Hi everyone. If anyone is interested there’s a Community Bible Study group for those who are looking for in-person or online sessions. Their first meeting starts on Wednesday, 9/10 and their study is on the book of Psalms. Here is a link to their promo video. Watch this short intro video
Here is the CBS website for locations throughout the world. Hmm…perhaps it’s a great way to meet friends from a different country and to practice your foreign language skills. 🙂
https://www.communitybiblestudy.org
Kairos church just shared this parent resource if you want to look through it. I’ve already read some of the books that he recommended. They are all very good and reputable resources.
https://www.kairoschurchnj.com/parentresources
Currently the Holy Spirit has been opening my eyes to the importance of “emotional intelligence”. Did you know that a high EQ is a better indicator of success in a workplace than a high IQ? It’s true. There are countless studies and research done by secular social scientists showing this to be true. Business MBA programs and high ranking business schools are trying harder than ever to teach EQ skills to their students. If they are stressing EQ skills, then you know that it’s because it is based on research, and what corporations want in their hires.
Here is a podcast that I just started listening to. His podcast is all about developing emotionally healthy leaders. He is a pastor and on this podcast he is very vulnerable about his lack of EQ causing harm in his marriage and church dysfunction. As a pastor and leader, it affected everyone that was under his leadership. I really, really appreciated his honesty and vulnerability. Even if you are not in leadership or ministry, please give him a listen. Because what he shared is so valuable for everyone.
Wherever you are in the Lord, there’s a time and season for everything. If you are not being delivered from an anger issue or whatever negative trait, then perhaps it’s time to start developing skills and tools in “emotional intelligence”. This pastor’s podcast is a good resource. He talks about his parents’ and his wife’s parents’ marriages in this podcast episode. Whatever we don’t heal, we will most likely transfer it to the next generation. Therefore it’s worth the effort to develop your emotional intelligence, heal your marriage and family relationships. I’ve heard enough stories to know that on your deathbed you will never ask for your trophies, money and “stuff”. You will be asking for your loved ones to be by your side. How glorious it would be if you are surrounded by those you love, and they love you back and will miss you when you leave for heaven.
I am a Gen Xer and an immigrant. We didn’t learn how to communicate our emotions or how to navigate conflicts for resolution. We simply learned to stuff it down and carry on. It is no wonder that I would explode like a volcano. Before Christ, I would explode frequently. After Christ, I would explode infrequently but I desire not to explode at all. I realize now that if I’m going to have zero explosions then I must develop skills in communication and conflict management skills. My family’s tradition of stonewalling or severing relationships is not going to work. Please carefully examine your family history and your own history in relationships. If you don’t like what you see in the rear view mirror then please pray 🙏 and ask the Holy Spirit to teach you. The first generation has to do the hardest work and most sacrificing. It is what it is.
If you need help in your marriage, please try to use a Christian therapist. Because I know enough Christian friends who are therapists and they pray for their clients, privately and in-person if their clients want prayer. Their prayers will give you supernatural support from heaven.
If you cannot use a Christian therapist for your marriage, I suggest finding a Gottman certified therapist. I’ve been subscribed to their newsletter for a couple of years and their advice and guidance are based upon their own successful marriage, thousands of clients served, and extensive clinical studies. https://www.gottman.com/couples/
Whoever you choose for your marriage therapist, please ask them about their own marriage. I don’t recommend seeing someone who has a history of divorce because they will quit too early in your marriage conflict. Here’s a story that you should read: https://www.businessinsider.com/husband-wife-made-a-pact-never-to-divorce-2025-8
Remember how I had horrific nightmares at the chateau (former Nazi headquarters) in France? Well, I googled if the Nazi leaders practiced occultism. According to this historian and professor who wrote a book about this topic – the answer is yes! So it seems my occultic radar is accurate. Whenever you feel in danger or without peace or having horrific nightmares, please ask for prayers! If it’s supernatural warfare then therapy, sleeping pills and other meds will not help much. You need supernatural intervention and the only thing that works is prayers of the saints (aka church people who are born-again).
One more thing – for you and your family to receive the blessings and benefits of a church community, you do need to be assembled into the church community. Just like LEGO pieces, you need to be assembled and not just stay in the fringes. LEGO boxes say “Assembly required.” The Holy Spirit will place you in a group and it’s really for your own good safety and protection.
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.
– Hebrews 10:23-25 (NKJV)
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