Spend any amount of time with honest humans and you'll discover an important fact of life: it often sucks. People can be jerks, plans don't always work out, dreams often don't come true... and then you brush your teeth and go to bed and it all starts again. Now, I'm an optimist and my life is also filled with hope, but I can't deny the reality that life includes a lot of hard times. So what do we do when life sucks? Here's my plan of attack.

Jonathan PuddleFebruary 17, 2018emotions, howto, depression, maturityComment

Tips for Dealing with Depression

Life is full of amazing, beautiful things for us to enjoy. I've always thought this... but a couple of years back I got stuck. Some hard stuff had happened, and the blows were too much for my emotions to deal with. I was sad but I didn't realize it, so I got angry but I didn't realize that either. So I was depressed and that was all I knew.

Jonathan PuddleFebruary 2, 2018depression, mental health, presence, health, healing, howtoComment

What to do with prophetic words

Why does God speak? Because God wants us to know love. All communication that comes from God is designed to draw us into relationship with the Trinity. Relationship is God's major purpose. For that reason, all prophecy is best interpreted as an invitation to learn more about the character of God and respond to it.