Help Topics

• HELP: Is there really a God?
  

  Is there really a God?

• HELP: How long should I spend doing my devotions?
  

  How long should I spend doing my devotions?

• HELP: How do I know God hears my prayers?
  

  How do I know that God is hearing me when I pray? There are many things going on in my family and with my friends, and I've been praying HARD about them and things seem to just be getting worse.

• HELP: What is the Heart of Worship?
  

  I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be at the heart of worship.

• Homosexuality: Behind The Mask
  

  Homosexuality is viewed by those in the church as simply sin. It is viewed by the secular media and the world at large as an alternative lifestyle, scripted at birth.

• Suicide
  

  In most cases suicide can be prevented if the person gets the help he or she needs. Know the warning signs. If a person talks about suicide, makes arrangements to give things away, has made prior suicide attempts, is in deep depression, changes in personality or has sudden mood changes, don’t blow these signs off.

• Sexual Abuse
  

  For anyone out there who is the victim of sexual abuse, I know how you feel…the hurt, doubting God, the loneliness and the questions going through your head. I’ve been there. Let me help.

• Hazing, Practical Jokes & Initiations
  

  By definition, hazing is harassment through forcing someone to do something disagreeable--often accompanied by ridicule, criticism or pressure. At its worst, it puts people through harmful and humiliating pranks or group initiations that hurt them physically and emotionally.

• Helping A Friend Through Grief
  

  Grief is a natural reaction to any important change or loss. Someone might experience grief upon the death of a loved one, divorce or separation of his parents, injury, disability or even the loss of a pet. When a friend faces a tragedy like one of these, it may be hard to know what to do. But you can help!

• Cutting
  

  Cutting is described as "self-injury" or "self-abuse." According to Mosby's Medical, Nursing, and Allied Health Dictionary (1994), self-injury is defined as "a state in which an individual is at high risk to injure (but not kill himself or herself), and that produces tissue damage and tension relief." Those who "cut" usually do it on their wrists, upper arms, and inner thighs.