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Damaged Emotions In the first chapter of his book,  Healing for Damaged Emotions , Pastor David Seamands writes, "we preachers have often given people the mistaken idea that the new birth and being filled with the spirit are going to automatically take care of our emotional hang-ups. But this just isn't true." He goes on to say that acceptance of Jesus Christ does not automatically heal all emotional issues and is not a fix-all for personality problems. Some of the damaged emotions Seamands describes are: a deep sense of  unworthiness  which includes feelings of anxiety, inadequacy and inferiority a  perfectionist  complex which includes ideas of never being able to please themselves, God or others a  super-sensitive  person who has usually been hurt deeply a person filled with  fears  who constantly struggles with the 'whys' and 'if-onlys' of life Dr. Seamands does give hope that there are "d...

I was blessed to be able to attend the annual women's conference held at Century Baptist this year and I must admit, I was completely blown away by the amazing speaker who had quite a story to tell. Gwen Damlo from KNDR, Carol Kent and myself. The conference kicked off on Friday evening with a wonderful time of praise and worship. Shortly afterwards every lady in attendance listened intently as speaker and author, Carol Kent told the story of when her only child, Jason Kent was arrested for murder. She went on to tell us about the reality of living "a new kind of normal" that included not only her son's conviction but his sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole. Honestly, I had a tough time comprehending how a devout Christian could carry out such a horrendous act but one would have to know the whole story to understand why he did. He thought he was protecting his young stepdaughters from further abuse by their biological father. Jas...