Long ago, our Lord and Master Jesus Christ told us, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me” (Matthew 16:24). And for centuries, His followers have been inspired ...
Discerning God’s voice when we have OCD can be a confusing, painful experience. How can we know our mental impressions are truly the voice of God? I could tell you story after story of people with scrupulosity stumbling at ...
Jaimie Eckert
Apr 4, 2023
Jerry was an inner city elementary school music teacher. He was a family man, a faithful church attender, and an overall great guy to know. But Jerry had religious OCD, and he struggled with spiritual obsessions and compulsions. One ...
Jaimie Eckert
Mar 23, 2023
You’ve been working away at scrupulosity recovery for awhile now. You’ve found a good OCD specialist and are working hard to stop fulfilling your compulsions. You’re working hard at reducing the power of your obsessions through exposure therapy. You’re ...
Jaimie Eckert
Mar 6, 2023
It’s a well-known reality in the world of OCD that whatever can be doubted, will be doubted. Did you really turn off the iron? How do you know? Are you sure? Doubt is the ever-present fertilizer that keeps our ...
Jaimie Eckert
Feb 15, 2023
Point of view: you’re a person with religious OCD, just going about your day. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a horrible, blasphemous thought flashes through your mind. Perhaps it is a thought that you want to worship the devil, or ...
Jaimie Eckert
Feb 1, 2023
The deadly sin of gluttony is one which most conscientious Christians wish to avoid. But highly conscientious Christians can sometimes take this avoidance to extremes! Thus, it’s important to learn how to avoid gluttony without being fanatical. Let me ...
Jaimie Eckert
Jan 25, 2023
Does God love me? The messy, sinful me? Recently, a friend sent me the book, “He Loves Me! Learning to Live in the Father’s Affection.” In the first chapter, author Wayne Jacobsen compares our relationship to the Father’s love ...
Jaimie Eckert
Jan 5, 2023
“I just want to know that I’m saved,” Bella sniffed, dashing tears from her cheeks. “Everybody talks about ‘assurance of salvation’ as if they’re so sure. I feel like I’m on the outside looking in, never really a part ...
Jaimie Eckert
Dec 16, 2022
Scrupulosity, the religious form of obsessive-compulsive disorder, is both a spiritual thorn in the flesh and a legitimately biological problem. Many people yearn to find a book, a pill, or a therapy for scrupulosity’s intense emotional-spiritual pain. However, just ...
Jaimie Eckert
Dec 7, 2022
