In part 1, we learned that God established the principle of tension in our world, but forbade stress. When we give in to stress, we are giving in to self-justification, which ultimately is sin. So, stress is bad, but tension is GOOD. Unfortunately we’ve conflated the concepts of tension and stress, and need to separate […]
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Tension vs. Stress What comes to mind when you hear the word tension? Anxiety? Blood Pressure? Stress? Many of us equate tension with stress. Ironically, God established the principle of tension in our world, but forbade stress. Tension is everywhere. It keeps the roof above our head, the bridge underneath our car, our guitars and […]
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While the hubbub has died down a bit, I can’t stop thinking about “The Cadillac Man” commercial. It ruffled a lot of feathers when it first aired during the Olympic Games[1] in February. Not only did this new “American icon” insinuate that only Americans are hard workers, but derogatorily characterized other countries as being lazy; […]
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