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Abide Network Mental health coaching and education community offering accessible, affordable, and biblical services to anyone in the world. http://linktr.ee/abidenetwork

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Most of us know the story of Job. But have we really wrestled with what it means? Charlie Croteau has. After breaking hi...
01/09/2026

Most of us know the story of Job. But have we really wrestled with what it means? Charlie Croteau has. After breaking his neck in a trampoline accident over five decades ago, Charlie spent his career in rehabilitation, helping others navigate spinal cord injury. Now retired, he hosts the Everything Wheelchairs YouTube channel and speaks on faith, suffering, and perseverance.

In "Job and the Big Picture," Charlie explores Job not as a theological puzzle to solve, but as a mirror of real human experience. If Scripture speaks so honestly about suffering, limitation, and unanswered questions; why do we sometimes expect so little of ourselves in response? You're invited to step back from platitudes and consider how trust, responsibility, and perseverance take shape in actual life.

Follow Charlie's Amazing Custom Wheelchairs: https://www.youtube.com/

Join us Fridays at 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET at abide.network/food-for-the-heart - All our welcome! Bring a friend!
Watch the full session on YouTube: youtube.com/

This week at Food for the Heart, Marilyn Ravina will share a reflective presentation centered on scripture songs, testim...
01/02/2026

This week at Food for the Heart, Marilyn Ravina will share a reflective presentation centered on scripture songs, testimony, and lived experience. She'll explore how God has used music to bring comfort, courage, and spiritual clarity.

Together, we will reflect on themes woven through songs like Paradise Lost and Jesus My Forever Friend, listen to the stories behind the lyrics, and consider how these messages meet our own life experiences with hope and reassurance.

Marilyn Ravina is a Certified Coach who has been serving clients through Abide for five years. She brings a gentle, Spirit-led presence shaped by decades of teaching, coaching, and faith-filled listening. Semi-retired, a mother of two adult daughters, and a grandmother of three, Marilyn now focuses her work on coaching adults while honoring God’s quiet providence in every session. She is currently accepting new clients and continues to delight in seeing how the Holy Spirit heals, redirects, and restores hearts and minds.

Join us Fridays at 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET at abide.network/food-for-the-heart - All our welcome! Bring a friend!
Watch the full session on YouTube: youtube.com/

12/26/2025

The annual Food for the Heart Holiday Concert is a time of sharing our artistic gifts through song, poetry, and short stories. Hosted by Dr. Jen, the evening gathers friends and artists for a warm, thoughtful celebration of the season.

Our lineup includes singer songwriter John Millea, spoken word artist Lee G, soprano Anne Marie Bates, and others offering music and readings that create space for reflection, beauty, and hope.

John Millea - https://johnmillea.com/

It Gets Better.
There is hope.
There is help.
There is healing.

Visit Abide.Network for free faith-based mental health resources and get connected with trained Christian coaches who care.
Grab our latest free resource to help you right now! “The 7 Deadly Psychological Sins” Abide.Network/

The annual Food for the Heart Holiday Concert is a time of sharing our artistic gifts through song, poetry, and short st...
12/26/2025

The annual Food for the Heart Holiday Concert is a time of sharing our artistic gifts through song, poetry, and short stories. Hosted by Dr. Jen, the evening gathers friends and artists for a warm, thoughtful celebration of the season.

Our lineup includes singer songwriter John Millea, spoken word artist Lee G, soprano Anne Marie Bates, and others offering music and readings that create space for reflection, beauty, and hope.

John Millea - https://johnmillea.com/

It Gets Better.
There is hope.
There is help.
There is healing.

Visit Abide.Network for free faith-based mental health resources and get connected with trained Christian coaches who care.
Grab our latest free resource to help you right now! “The 7 Deadly Psychological Sins” Abide.Network/

Tonight on Food for the Heart, we will explore a theme many are longing for but struggling to find: mental peace. This s...
12/19/2025

Tonight on Food for the Heart, we will explore a theme many are longing for but struggling to find: mental peace.

This session, Scripture's Path for Mental Peace, looks at the biblical archetype of justice as a foundation for inner healing. Together we will reflect on the difference between the peace offered by the world and the peace Christ gives, and consider how restoring a biblical understanding of justice can bring clarity, stability, and hope in the midst of mental and emotional strain.

Our speaker tonight is Servio Cordoba, a psychologist and registered psychotherapist in progress in Canada. He is a third generation Seventh-day Adventist, a husband, and a father of two daughters. Servio brings both professional insight and a deep commitment to Scripture as he guides us through this conversation on faith, justice, and mental well being.

Join us Fridays at 5 PM PT / 8 PM ET at abide.network/food-for-the-heart
Watch the full session on YouTube: youtube.com/

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Some Christians reject Christmas, especially Christmas lights, thought to be rooted in the winter solstice-light festiva...
12/16/2025

Some Christians reject Christmas, especially Christmas lights, thought to be rooted in the winter solstice-light festival of pagan Rome.

But Dr. Richard Davidson has come to believe there could be a biblical basis for a December 25 Christmas. What Davidson calls “the other Christmas story” involves, not the birth, but the incarnation of Jesus.

Davidson makes a case for the aged priest Zechariah impregnating his also-aged wife Elizabeth around the end of June. Davidson points out that Luke 1 makes clear that Mary, the mother of Jesus and Elizabeth’s cousin, became pregnant by the Spirit in the sixth month of Elizabeth’s pregnancy. This would be around the time of the Jewish holiday Hanukkah. Dr. Davidson suggests that, and provides evidence for, the day of conception possibly being December 25. He says that instead of Merry Christmas, we should say, “Happy Conception Day!”

So, it seems that paganism didn’t just create a fake holiday on December 25th but heisted an existing one and rebranded it. Maybe we should take it back! In any case, we can rejoice in that moment of conception when, beginning as one cell, the Sovereign God became flesh.

My Christmas gift to you is Dr. Davidson’s research - read it at Abide.Network/blog or get it instantly by commenting “LIGHTS.” And if this idea challenges you, excites you, or raises questions, comment LIGHTS and join the conversation.

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