Responding Biblically to Your Past
[…] bucket of my past of choices like that. Or did you develop bitterness toward God? Again, we saw this illustrated in the Ruth and […]
Counseling Tips
Truth in Love 207
[…] to our church, and I was very taken with him talking about bitterness. I heard him do a lecture on bitterness. My husband, Sanford, […]
Communication in Marriage
Truth in Love 160
[…] with issues like that? Where maybe there has been small points of bitterness over time that have built up in a marriage that has […]
Counseling Adults Abused as Children
Truth in Love 147
[…] of it is heightened and their response to that becomes complicated with bitterness and anger. We can think of an example of a parent […]
Pursuing Joy in Christ with Disabilities
Truth in Love 136
[…] no to ungodliness whether that may take the shape of self-pity, or bitterness against God, or resentment, we say no to those things and […]
Thanksgiving as a Way of Life
[…] I was suffering, but my particular suffering was also intermingled with sin. Bitterness, selfishness, and anger were thoughts that I too often found myself […]
Mind the Gap
Bridging Difficulty in Relationships
[…] gaps are apparent, so are sinful behaviors such as frustration, withdrawal, argumentativeness, bitterness, impatience, or a critical attitude. The First is Self-Regard This attitude […]
Applying the Four Categories of Suffering in Counseling
[…] as a result of someone else’s personal sin, can easily lead to bitterness or a victim mentality, which also needs to be counseled biblically. […]
Tricks of the Tempter
Truth in Love 536
[…] as bittersweet. Temptation always paints sin as sweet, but it conceals the bitterness. It shows the fleeting pleasures of sin, but it hides from […]
Biblical Counseling and Marital Separations
[…] with another biblical counselor who is not there to help her excavate bitterness. She’s not there to help the wife repent of something. She […]
Vengeance Is Mine
[…] follow. Justice has been dispensed, though this never quenches the roots of bitterness that can fester. The Many Masks of Vengeance This leads to […]
Redeeming Memory
Truth in Love 439
[…] the ways that recall things. That leads to things like shame, regret, bitterness and, and different ways that it really result in moral failures. […]