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When negative feedback shakes your confidence, it can be difficult to get back to feeling like yourself at work. In this episode, Anne and Frances help a struggling listener who has spent years toning herself down in the workplace after being told that she was too assertive — now, she feels that her modest approach is holding her back. Together, they use Anne and Frances’s “trust triangle” framework to explore how empathy, authenticity, and logic can help you rebuild confidence and trust with your colleagues, and share helpful confidence hacks for getting comfy with discomfort. What problems are you dealing with at work? Text or call 234-FIXABLE or email fixable@ted.com to be featured on the show. For the full text transcript, visit ted.com/podcasts/fixable-transcripts Want to help shape TED’s shows going forward? Fill out our survey ! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.…
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Think of a situation in which you are avoiding peace because it would take too much effort, cause too much conflict, or create too much trouble for you. What is God calling you to do in that situation?
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Think of a situation in which you are avoiding peace because it would take too much effort, cause too much conflict, or create too much trouble for you. What is God calling you to do in that situation?
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When we sing in worship more is happening than what we often imagine. We are proclaiming our faith through the lyrics, moved by God through the melodies, and touched by the Holy Spirit through our participation.
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Complications occur when a death is out of order. We will examine why death out of order is so difficult, how we can comfort our loved ones who have experienced an unexpected loss, and the source of hope we can offer.
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Jesus knew what it was to grieve. When His dear friend Lazarus died Jesus entered into the grief of the community when He cried with them. Jesus knew grief and He is there with us in our grief.
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"Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
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Persecuted for Righteousness
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Persecuted for Righteousness
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Blessed Are You Persecuted
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Blessed Are The Persecuted
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The Blessing No One Wants.
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Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.
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Being a peacemaker means daily practicing simple acts of kindness.
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If Jesus, the victim of our sins, can forgive us for his death, how much more so should we forgive our enemies, instigators, and victims alike.
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Think of a situation in which you are avoiding peace because it would take too much effort, cause too much conflict, or create too much trouble for you. What is God calling you to do in that situation?
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Peace means not only freedom from all trouble, but enjoyment of all good. Peace is not just the silencing of the violence of warfare and strife, but a state of well-being and fullness. And this gets to the heart of some of our problems today
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Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
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Jesus blessed purity of heart as Jesus knew from out of the heart flow our words and our actions. It's not just enough to refrain from outward sins. We must be pure from the inside out if we are to see God.
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We mock the gospel when we reduce the demands of the gospel to simply believing that Christ died for our sins, giving intellectual assent to that truth and accepting by faith the eternal securities it offers us. But the true demand of the gospel is a changed heart, a pure heart, an unadulterated heart, a heart washed clean, a heart free from chaff, a heart purged of discontent.…
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The heart is what you are, in the secrecy of your thought and feeling, when nobody knows but God.
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How pure is your heart? Are your actions pure, showing a pure heart?
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When Jesus speaks of a pure heart, he speaks of a heart that has been purged and cleansed so that it is unadulterated and unspoiled. That’s the high calling of this beatitude and it puts us at odds with our culture from the outset.
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Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
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Mercy is extended to the downcast and outcast, but certainly not to the wealthy or powerful, no matter how blameless their actions have been. The way mercy is lived out today has little resemblance to the mercy Jesus spoke of so often.
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Mercy is at the very heart of our relationship with our Lord and mercy must be at the very heart of our relationship with others
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Mercy is never easy and it is rarely simple.
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Where are you currently seeing mercy extended?
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Have you experienced a time when you have seen others receive more mercy than you received?
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Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
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The thought that God only blesses the righteous was the viewpoint of the Pharisees and the religious elite of Jesus’ day. But Jesus blessed those who are hungry and thirsty for righteousness. Why? I think it’s because when we focus on our motivations rather than the end results, we get to the heart of the matter. For example, if we focus only on attaining righteousness we will focus only on our outward actions. Our sinful actions will get our attention. But if we focus on our hungers and thirsts, we will begin to examine the affections of our hearts. And that is where true righteousness is birthed.…
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What sin do you love more than you love righteousness or even the Lord Himself? Remember that we are to love God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength. Nothing should take the place of God as the center in our lives.
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Is there a hunger for which you are seeking to satisfy that still keeps you unsatisfied when you fully attain it?
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