Running on Empty

Anger - Anger can cause us trouble, but we're afraid that without it we'll be pushed around. What is the healthy role of anger in our lives?

Anxiety - Recognizing our anxiety is the beginning, but then we need a reason not to be afraid.

Becoming Who You Really Are- We can't know who we really are until we know who God thinks we are.

The Christian Faith - What is Christianity: not rules, morals, values or even a set of beliefs; it is how God restores His connection with mankind. Christianity is about having a restored relationship with God, so that He can love us and guide us and we can love and enjoy Him.

Community-We all need to belong to a community that encourages the best in us.

Handling Criticism - We have to deal with criticism on a daily basis. Why does it bother us so much, and how can we learn to handle it?

Discontentment - We know we aren't who we should be, but we don't seem to be able to do anything about it.

Doubts about God - If I send a request heavenward and it's granted, was my prayer actually heard and answered by a God who cares? Or was it just a coincidence?

Finding Faith to Live On - We can't quite believe in God but can't quite dismiss Him either. Spirituality is getting increased attention. How can we come to know whether there is a God?

Forgiveness - The basic beliefs of the Christian faith as it relates to us today. God's means of giving us freedom from compulsion, emptiness, frustration, loneliness, meaninglessness, and the death of our souls.

Friendship-Healthy friendships require humility and a solid foundation.

God's Love for You-God knows and loves each one of us completely.

God with Us - God came to earth as a man, the man Jesus. How could anyone believe that?

Guilt - We feel guilty but don't think we're bad people. How can we find freedom from guilt?

Healing the Past-We need to forgive, and we want to be forgiven.

Hearing from God - If there is a God, does he communicate with us? If he does communicate, how do we know which of the different voices in our heads is his?

Hints of God - We have moments when we sense the existence of God, we sense that there is something beyond ourselves. We sense the infinite. We'd like more of those times, but don't know how to get them.

Imitations of Love - We over-work, over-eat, over-drink , over-do just about everything to avoid the emptiness of feeling unloved. Each of us is loved more than we can imagine, but most of us don't know it.

Intimacy without Fear - Our desire for intimacy battles with our fear of rejection and criticism. Is real intimacy possible? It is if we have a secure sense of our own worth.

Is God Good? - Given all of the evil that we see around us, how can we know whether God is good or not? How can we come to trust him?

Loving & Being Loved - How to get more love in your life without manipulation or compromise.

Many Truths or One? - Truth is a description of reality, not an opinion. Real truth helps us understand reality; it helps us make sense of our lives.

Our Relationship with God - We focus on our control over the world and act as though God had no connection to our lives. Have we become gods, and has God become merely another god? Or have we got it wrong?

The Problem with Rules-The problem with rules is not that they hem us in too much, but that they don't make us better people.

Purpose of Life - We each have a purpose in life for which we are uniquely suited. But few of us find and live out that purpose. Finding our purpose requires knowing who we are and how we fit in the universe.

Reconnecting with God - We've all had times of wanting to experience the love of God, but wishing for it doesn't make it happen. How can we get reconnected to the God who created us and loves us?

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Security - Real security can have only one basis: the God who is there, who knows and cares about what happens to each one of us.

Self Control - We want to be in charge of our own lives, make our own choices, do things our way, but we can't always control ourselves. What's at the root of our lack of self control, and what can we do about it?

Self Esteem - Low self esteem hinders our ability to be productive, but high self-esteem leads to arrogance and selfishness. Both interfere with good relationships. Our self-worth needs to have a more solid basis than our opinions of ourselves.

Self Forgiveness-Forgiving ourselves for past mistakes can be more difficult than believing that God forgives us.

Suffering-Suffering can make us doubt God's love for us, but he is always with us in the midst of it.

Who Is God? - Many of us believe in God, but what do we believe about him?

Why Christianity? - Christianity seems so improbable, and yet many people believe it. Why does anyone need a formal religion, anyway? Isn't belief in God enough?