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What is a moment that made you question reality?  There are a lot of events that have made me question reality.   Thank you, God, for allowing me to wake up early this morning.  My answer to this question is when I got locked up inside of the Dayton Ohio Montgomery County Jail on Monday, December 23, 2024, for committing a misdemeanor assault charge.  I want to inform everyone that I was in a state of shock because I was sent to jail over a misunderstanding in the first place.  The only thing that I did was chill out because I was angry.  I just know that 30 days I was evicted out of my apartment at Wentworth Hi Rise Apartments, located in Dayton, Ohio.  I am glad to be away from that bedbug infested place anyway.   I will admit that I had bedbugs coming out of my body and clothes.   I ended up bringing bedbugs with me to jail and the hospital where I was a patient less than 1 week later.  The only thing that I can say is ...

Locations | Help Center | Donate to BCC Schedule an Appointment  How Jesus Addressed Fear, Worry, and Anxiety Dr. Tim Allchin October 1, 2019 For Those Seeking Hope 14 Comments Editors Note: This is the first article in a series on addressing fear, worry, and anxiety over the next few weeks. It is more general in nature because future articles will be giving more specific strategies on how to deal effectively with fear, worry, and anxiety. Our BCC Staff writers have spent a great deal of time working through these issues, and we pray that the series will be a blessing to you. See other posts here . Everyone worries. Everyone has a problem with anxiety—including me. Despite the fact that we generally think God is against our fear, worry, and anxiety, we don’t ever seem to completely overcome its harsh grip.  God created us as emotional people. Our emotions are given by God to put us “into motion.” For instance, anger is driven by a sense of injustice and a desire to oppose s...

24 May Risking vulnerability Page 150 " As we grow, we learn to overcome the tendency to run and hide from ourselves and our feelings. " Basic Text, p. 85 ❖ Rather than risk vulnerability, many of us have developed habits that keep others at a safe distance. These patterns of emotional isolation can give us the feeling we are hopelessly locked behind our masks. We used to take risks with our lives; now we can take risks with our feelings. Through sharing with other addicts, we learn that we are not unique; we do not make ourselves unduly vulnerable simply by letting others know who we are, for we are in good company. And by working the Twelve Steps of the NA program, we grow and change. We no longer want or need to hide our emerging selves. We are offered the opportunity to shed the emotional camouflage we developed to survive our active addiction. By opening ourselves to others, we risk becoming vulnerable, but that risk is well worth the rewards. With the help of our sponso...

What does life means to me at this point? What does life means to me at this point?  Let’s have a look at this for a moment.  Life itself is only a vapor according to the Bible.  James 4:14 says; yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow.  You are just a vapor that appears for a while and then vanishes away.  This means that we are only air that only exists for only for a period of time.  This is the reason why God would like for all of us to get our lives straight.  However, my life at this particular time has been filled with ups and downs.  Some of these ups and downs have a great deal to with my health as well as my lack of employment.   Perhaps, the gaps in employment have a lot to do with the lack of jobs that are in the Dayton, Ohio area.  Currently, I have to participate in a community based assessment to determine whether I am eligible for employment in specific industries.  Although I suffer from grand mal s...

What is a moment that made you realize you were stronger than you thought?  Good Morning Everyone 🙏!  How are all of doing today?  I want all of you to know that I couldn't do anything without God in the first place.  Well, I have to answer this question by saying that I was enrolled at the University of Toledo in Toledo Ohio years ago; I had always thought that achieving a goal such as finishing school would be very difficult.   This is because at the time I really didn't have faith in myself in the first place.   I will admit that it had taken me a while to adjust to the college life in the first place.   I had thought for a very long time that attending colleges was just like high school again.  At that time I really needed a lot of outside assistance from someone or somewhere.  This is when all of my instructors at the University of Toledo decided to implement a plan of action in order for me to achieve my goals. ...

"Pastor, the wickedness in my family is too much. How do I succeed despite their hindrances?"  I wouldn't call them hindrances; rather, I'd call them opponents or oppositions. Although the meaning of both words could also be someone who's attempting to stop the progress of another person, but unlike an hindrance, the desire of an opposition cannot be established without a fight from the opposed.  While an opposition "attempts to stop" something from happening, an hindrance actually stops something from happening. The desire of the opposition cannot be established without a fight, but an hindrance cannot be fought. Hindrances are usually established by a law or a higher authority. That's why each time the word "hinder" was used in the bible, it was either the person didn't scale through or there was a plea. An example would be how Lot pleaded with Abraham not to hinder him from seperating from him. Another example would be how Satan hind...