In this week’s Trust Minute, we discuss how to become free from our bad habits.
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Why Are Bad Habits Hard to Break?
Why Are Habits Hard to Break? Many times, it takes a crisis to change our negative habits. We tend to reject the law that protects us. This is the law of sin and death. Our human flesh causes us to sin and not trust the God that wants to protect us from ourselves. The...
Trust Minute with Alan Heller: What is the Definition of trust?
In this week’s Trust Minute, we discuss how our perspective of trust is often clouded by unreconciled relationships.
The Definition of Trust
We learn most of our words from our family & culture but these definitions may be biased. Read more to find the true definition of trust!
Trust Minute with Alan Heller: Only You Can Prevent Dragon Fires
In this week’s Trust Minute, we discuss how to prevent bad habits from forming and taking over our lives.
Trust Minute with Alan Heller – Rethinking How You Think
Success, power, money, and beauty are all things we think will make us happy. But what if you manage to have all these things, but you’re still unhappy? Do you feel like there’s still something missing? Watch this week’s Trust Minute with Alan Heller to learn about the dangers and emptiness that come with success.
Trust in God First: Rethinking How You Think
As a young man, our co-author, Ed Delph, went through a painful divorce. During that time, he sought direction from God’s Word. For Ed, this spiritual counsel was more than information — he received illumination and was transformed. How do you think of God? Is He a...
Trust Minute with Alan Heller – Emptiness of Success
Success, power, money, and beauty are all things we think will make us happy. But what if you manage to have all these things, but you’re still unhappy? Do you feel like there’s still something missing? Watch this week’s Trust Minute with Alan Heller to learn about the dangers and emptiness that come with success.
How Can You Feel Empty With So Much Success?
If success were the key to happiness, there would not be so many unhappy people who have success, money, beauty, or power. Read more on why you are successful in life, but still feel like you’re missing something!
Trust Minute with Alan Heller – Idolatry of Applause
Did you know that you might be facing a battle with idolatry and not even know it? At first, idols (those things in our life that we put ahead of God) appear harmless and sometimes even beneficial. Read this week’s blog to learn more about these sly idols and how to avoid them
Do You Have Idols in Your Life?
What are Idols? Websters Dictionary says an idol is: “an object of extreme devotion; a representation or symbol of an object of worship broadly: a false god”. Do we control Idolatry or does it control us? We all want to be significant and liked by others. When we are...
Trust Minute with Alan Heller – Forgive, Release, Let Go
In this week’s Trust Minute, we discuss how to forgive, release and let go of life’s pains.
Why is Forgiveness Important?
Forgiveness and Release Do you have something or someone in your past that you have been unable to forgive? Have you said at one point in your life, “I will never be like… or I am never going to let someone in my life like that again.” As we talked about in the trust...
Trust Minute with Alan Heller – Vows, Judgements, and Generalizations
No one likes to get hurt, but sometimes, it happens. When our trust is broken or someone hurts us, we might make judgments that push others away. Read this week’s article on how to make the right vows, judgments, and generalizations in life to help resolve these issues.
Judgments, Vows, and Generalizations, Oh My!
“Watch your thoughts, they become words ... watch your words, they become actions ... watch your actions, they become habits ... watch your habits, they become character ... watch your character, it becomes your destiny!” The by which we make sense of our world and...
Trust Minute with Alan Heller – Pain is Inevitable but Misery is Optional
Do you know we can choose misery or joy? Sometimes life brings us down, but it’s up to us how we deal with it. To learn more, watch this week’s Trust Minute with Alan Heller.
Pain is Inevitable but Misery is Optional
Jesus said in John 16:33: In the world, you will have tribulation but be of good cheer I have overcome the world. We can’t choose the pain we go through, but we can choose the attitude we have as we go through our pain. We can whine and be miserable and tell everyone...
Trust Minute with Alan Heller – Vertical & Horizontal Trust
Many times in life, we are hurt by a person or something happens that causes us to feel threatened, rejected or shamed. In these cases, our trust is broken. Having vertical trust (trust in God) allows us to have an unbreakable trust. To learn more, watch this week’s Trust Minute with Alan Heller.
Vertical and Horizontal Trust
What are your dreams? What are your desires? What exploits would you like to accomplish for the kingdom of God? What type of person do you desire to become? Are you satisfied with the process through which God is bringing you, or do you find yourself caught in...
Trust Minute with Alan Heller – Why Trust is Essential
Many times in life, we are hurt by a person or something happens that causes us to feel threatened, rejected or shamed. In these cases, our trust is broken. How do we cope and what can we do to restore this trust? Watch this week’s Trust Minute with Alan Heller.