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This post is the third part of a series and if you have not seen Part 1 or Part 2 yet, I recommend starting there. In Part 1, I talked about how I believe Christians should understand ourselves. In Part 2, I talked about Christians and the concept of self-love. In this post, Part 3, […]

Continuing the conversation from Part 1, we expand the idea of self-concept to self-love. In our culture today, there seem to be a lot of different ways to categorize self-love and it can be hard to determine if it is Biblically sound to say that we should (or shouldn’t) “love ourselves.” There are conflicting ideas, […]

Today, I would like to share my thoughts on how Christians view themselves. In our American culture today, and in the realm of wellness particularly, things like identity, self-esteem, self-worth, and self-concept are talked about frequently. As a Christian, it is my experience that we are often given conflicting messages about these ideas, even within […]

What does it look like to truly live well? This is a question that I have done a lot of thinking about my whole life, but particularly in the last several years as I studied various topics of health, wellness, psychology, motivation, and flourishing in university and graduate courses and continued to learn about God […]