By offering practical thoughts based on biblical truth, “Words for the Journey” is helping listeners find their way out of dark places, so they can begin to live in the light of Christ.
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Anxiety: What it is and What you Can Do About it
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Anyone who has struggled with anxiety knows how painful and debilitating it can be, affecting our mind, body, heart, brain, and spirit. Cyndy will talk about her own experiences with anxiety and offer helpful tips and strategies to find relief and healing.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Where does fear come from and how do we get rid of it? Too many of us befriend our fear rather than see him for the true enemy he is. Find out the two doors we open that allow fear to come in and grip our life, and how to close those doors for good.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Known by Their Love: Acceptance, Forgiveness, Reconciliation
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More and more, our world is characterized by hatred and division. How can we live as Jesus asks us to live in such a hostile world? While we can’t control the world, we can control ourselves and make a positive impact. We can follow Jesus and be known by our love.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Dualism: Heart of Stone or Heart of Flesh? Part 3: The Life of Love
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Jesus was the model of the non-dualistic life, deliberately going outside the socially acceptable boundaries. As we follow him, we learn to remove the barriers, to accept others, to see similarities, not differences, and move into relationships with love. God will always supply us with love when ours runs out.…
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Dualism: Heart of Stone or Heart of Flesh? Part 2: The Dualistic Life
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Living with an undivided heart means we see all people as part of our group, every nationality, color, religious belief, sexual orientation, political party, etc. Even closer to home, those in our family, church, neighborhood, and work place are to be included. Sectioning off groups and individuals is dualism and limits the life God asks us to live…
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Dualism: Heart of Stone or Heart of Flesh? Part 1 Understanding Dualism
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Dualism is an attitude of judgment and exclusion, defining those we will love and those we will hate or dismiss. Dualism creates divisions. God asks us to love as Jesus did, without parameters, seeing all people as equal, as God’s creations, worthy of respect. It is an attitude that starts in our heart.…
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As screens dominate our life more and more, we need to stop to examine and evaluate our habits. Too much screen time is not only unhealthy for our bodies, it is unhealthy for our soul. God never wants us to be captive to anything but his love.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Does a day go by when we don’t find ourselves saying, “But I don’t have time for that?” Find out why that is a lie. Managing our time wisely is a challenge, but we can succeed if we have an honest and truthful perspective about this gift God has given us.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Cyndy and Bryan know what it’s like to struggle in marriage. Whether your marriage is on life-support, or just less than what you hoped it would be, Cyndy has three tips that will improve any relationship, married or otherwise. She will also share the secret that saved her marriage with Bryan.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Debt and money problems don’t have to be a cause for suffering in our life. God provides plenty of help in this area. Working Cyndy’s 5 best tips into your life is guaranteed to set you free from this bondage, freeing up you and your resources.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Have you experienced awe? Witnessing magnificence can bring a physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual alignment, bringing many benefits. Awe offers profound change to our life, dissolving selfishness, elevating our mood, releasing physical healing in our body and brain, opening our eyes to see God, and bringing a taste of heaven.…
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Waiting: How to Wait When Nothing is Changing
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Waiting for God to move or direct or change something is not easy to do. We can find ourselves floundering in our faith, fearful God will not come through, doubting his promises. How can we remain in a place of peace when we’re waiting? Today’s podcast will help us while we wait.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Praying With Intimacy: Having a Deeper Prayer Life
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If having a great prayer life seems illusive and mysterious, this podcast is for you. Cyndy will help you grasp the basic elements by sharing from her own personal experience, including excerpts from her conversations with God. Her practical tips will help you move your prayer life from boring to exciting and impactful.…
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Refusing to forgive ourselves for regretful choices, even after God has forgiven us is a painful reality for many of us. It’s no fun to live with self-loathing and shame. Find out the practical steps to locate and remove the deep roots causing this bondage.By Cyndy Sherwood
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When Life Falls Apart: Thoughts, Expectations, Considerations
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When a tragedy suddenly occurs it can be paralyzing. We can, at the same time, have a million thoughts going in a myriad of directions, and yet have no clarity or coherence on what to do next. We’ll talk about helpful considerations, including what thoughts to encourage and what to avoid.By Cyndy Sherwood
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It is hard to watch someone we care about go through hard times. Trying to figure out what to say, and how to say it can be tricky. How can we be there in a helpful and positive way? Cyndy has a lot to say on what to do and not to do, pulling from her own experience with loss and grief.By Cyndy Sherwood
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God’s healing steps are not just for adults, they are great tools for children, too. Find out how you can give children healthy foundations and tools today that will guard them against costly mistakes as the grow up. The earlier we learn these important lessons, the better our life will be.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Keeping an Eye on Eternity: Encouragement for the Journey
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This life is a hard journey. There’s a reason why this world doesn’t feel like a good fit, one Scripture addresses. But if we’ll remind ourselves of the promises of heaven, it will help us maintain today. Cyndy has 3 tips and 3 promises to encourage us while we’re still here.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Basics First: 4 Priorities for Every Christian
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When we have pain and problems, we tend to gravitate toward anything but God. God asks us to keep him first. If we’ll pay attention to the basics (seek God, fellowship with Christians, pray, and read Scripture), he will richly provide for our needs, guiding us with love and power.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Help! My Mind is Driving Me Crazy! Taking control of our thought life.
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It’s no fun when our mind continually replays tormenting thoughts. However, we can take control. In this podcast we will discover how to get the bad stuff out of our head and replace it with healthy thinking. With God’s weapons, we can fight and win these mental battles.By Cyndy Sherwood
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How Do I Survive my Grief? Grieving Basics
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Grieving is one of the most important parts of the healing process, but also the part most often misunderstood and skipped. Grief is sneaky, sometimes showing up in unusual ways. Learn how to recognize and value your grief, what to avoid, and what to do when it shows up.By Cyndy Sherwood
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But I Don’t Want to Forgive: Forgiveness is Good for the Soul
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While it goes against our human grain to forgive, there are many compelling reasons to do so. Forgiveness brings good health, freedom, and closeness with God. We will dispel common misconceptions about what forgiveness means and dig into many of the benefits of complying with this fundamental directive.…
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Being Congruent: Beliefs, Actions, Thoughts, Words, and Feelings that Match
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The purpose of our life is to serve God and glorify him in everything we say, do, and think. Getting these areas to line up is hard work and requires true beliefs and healing for our wounds. The effort is worth it because it leads to the best life possible.By Cyndy Sherwood
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4 Steps to Get Through Anything: Trust, Commit, Rest, Wait
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After we begin to heal and realize we don’t want to be a victim anymore, we need to learn new ways of doing things. How can we live healthy and successful lives? God gives us four helpful steps to do this in Psalm 37: Trust, commit, rest, and wait.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Where is Justice: Do Justly, Love Mercy, Walk Humbly
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After we begin shedding the victim identity, we need something to put in its place. Micah 6:8 provides a great starting place, three standards that will guide us in any situation. Justice, mercy, and humility are not hard to understand, but very challenging to follow.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Life After Healing: Living in the Promise Land
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Receiving God’s healing in our life is wonderful, but it isn’t the end goal. Healing is just a means toward a greater end which is to finally live the life we were created for, as the person God made us to be. He has great plans for us, but we need restoration before we are ready.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Confession is for You: Healing Our Relationship with God
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It’s every person’s tendency to justify their sin and shy away from confession, but we’re really hurting ourselves in a tremendous way when we do this. God’s plan and intention is never to shame us, it is to relieve us of guilt, setting our mind and heart free. It’s for us—not for him!By Cyndy Sherwood
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Don’t be Satan’s Victim: Defeating the Enemy
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No one wants to contend with Satan, but we don’t get a choice about that. We only get a choice about standing up to his lies, living in the truth, using our God-given weapons, and get healing for our wounds. Find out how you can gain victory in your life.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Joy In The Wilderness: Finding good in the midst of the hard.
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While it is true our season of healing in the wilderness is challenging, that’s not the whole story. This season also includes many blessings, including growing intimacy with the Lord. Find out where joy can be found, as well as things you can do to make your life brighter.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Being in the Middle of Healing: Understanding the wilderness season.
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In order to pass from our old life of bondage and enter into our new life in the Promised Land, it is necessary we travel through the wilderness. We will learn how to avoid some of the mistakes the Israelites made, mistakes that made this season harder and longer.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Leaving Egypt: Why is it Hard to Leave Our Bondage?
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Are you stuck? So many settle for an unsatisfying life because it’s familiar and they are afraid to trust God to take them to something better. In Isaiah 43, God reveals his deep love for us and his plan to take care of us all the way to the Promised Land. His love will keep us moving forward.By Cyndy Sherwood
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The road to self-acceptance requires some effort, as well as an understanding of the truth, but it is worth it. Self-acceptance makes it possible to live in peace with ourselves and experience the best life possible, the life we were created to live.By Cyndy Sherwood
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There are two types of members in the “Victim Club,” the passive victim and the aggressive victim. Find out which type you are, and how you can resign from the club by examining your false beliefs about yourself and about God. This is one club you don’t want to belong to.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Victim Identity Part 1: We are good stuff.
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Too often we have allowed our self-worth to be defined by the bad things that have happened to us, along with the poor choices we've made. And as such, have come up lacking value. Find out how you can shed the lies and begin enjoying the person God made you to be.By Cyndy Sherwood
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The Desert, Sea, Prison: 3 Victim Destinations
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Our needs are God-given, but if we try to meet them in our own prideful way, we will suffer for sure. Psalm 107 gives us three powerful metaphors illustrating victim lifestyles on Pride Pathway, metaphors that will help us identify victim choices that hurt our life.By Cyndy Sherwood
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To Rage or not to Rage, that is the question. Anger.
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Anger can interfere in our life, causing problems to others and ourselves. However, if we aren’t aware of the wound underneath our anger, we probably won’t be able to resolve it, only manage it. Find out how you can get rid of your anger every time it shows up.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Hagar’s Story: Meeting the God Who Sees Me
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Changing a false identity or victim behavior begins by seeing God for who he truly is and seeing the inestimable value of ourselves. God gives us a real-life example of this miracle in the story a Hagar. No one valued her until the day she met God while running away from her life.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Trusting God’s Perspective: Lessons from Nehemiah
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Our perspective has a great deal to do with our success or failure. Nehemiah relied on the Peak Perspective, God’s way of viewing matters, and so was part of a great accomplishment. We, too, can be part of God’s plan, if we will look at him, not our circumstances.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Why Do Bad Things Happen? Examining the tension between God's sovereignty.
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If God's Word is true, and he loves us enough to let his Son die for us, and he holds all power, then why do we experience so many painful things? Who is really responsible for the problems in the world and the pain in our life?By Cyndy Sherwood
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Sexual Trauma: Hope for Healing the Worst Wounds
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Certain wounds like sexual abuse, do incredible damage to our heart, mind, body, and soul, as we see in the story of Tamar and Amnon. Even so, the Lord can and will heal us, if we’ll allow him to do so. Healing begins by laying a truthful foundation in our beliefs.By Cyndy Sherwood
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What Is Healing? Understanding the wounds and the remedies.
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It is easy to fling around the term “healing,” but what exactly do we mean? Our podcast today will bring clarity while we learn to dissect our wounds. Find out the four places affected by our wounds and the corresponding remedies so you can find complete healing.By Cyndy Sherwood
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What’s Perspective Have to Do with It? Seeing as God Sees
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God often has a perspective that is different than ours, something we can solve by receiving truth and getting healing. Unhealed wounds and false beliefs can blind us, making it easy to head in destructive directions. Find out how you can abandon the Dirt Perspective and adopt the Peak PerspectiveBy Cyndy Sherwood
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Defeating our pride and learning how to trust God is challenging. Today’s teaching will break this problem down into its three core elements: Power, Protection, and Provision. These helpful handles will help us see where the problem of pride is showing up in our life.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Trying to live the life we were created for, while painful wounds are living in us, doesn't work. That's why God brought Joseph's family back into his life, so he could be fully restored and ready to lead Egypt in strength and wisdom. Joseph is an example for all of us.By Cyndy Sherwood
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When we disconnect from God, we put other things in his place, things that steer our life in the wrong direction. These false idols take our life captive. Today, Cyndy will share thoughts on how you can get your life back on track.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Everyone puts their trust in someone or something, but if it is not God, we will not experience the help and blessing of his power working on our behalf. False idols come in a thousand different forms, but one thing they all have in common, they steal us away from God’s best.By Cyndy Sherwood
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God clearly spells out two roads of which we can travel. His Word arms us with ample reasons and encouragement for choosing Trust Trail, as well as an equal amount of warnings why we should avoid Pride Pathway. Even so, making the right choice is difficult.By Cyndy Sherwood
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God has outlined for us two roads, roads I call "Trust Trail" and "Pride Pathway." One leads to life and happiness, the other to disappointment and destruction. There are reasons why we make the choices we do. Find out how you can avoid pain and suffering by traveling on Trust Trail.By Cyndy Sherwood
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Our beliefs affect how we conduct our life: every relationship, every decision, every reaction, which is why it is critical that we know what we believe, and that our beliefs line up with God’s Word. Otherwise, our beliefs will continually derail our life, leaving us disappointed and frustrated. Find out how you can get your beliefs back on track.…
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We all want to live a happy life, so does God, but stuff is holding us back. Just like the Israelites in Exodus, he's taking us to a good place, but we must follow him in order to get there. Getting to a great place in life hinges on our willingness to deal with our issues.By Cyndy Sherwood
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