SFT Awareness

Depression’s Link to Your Diet

Many people first turn to drugs and medications when they believe they are stuggling with depression. But I believe it is important to address depression on every level--mind, body and spirit. A recent University of London study, led by Dr. Eric Brunner, followed the eating habits of 3,486 adults for 5 ...

Oxymoronic Thinking Errors

Only foolish people use stupid labels. It doesn't take much evidence to know when someone is jumping to a conclusion. Filtering out the positive would be ok if it didn't take over my life. Complete failures polarize their thinking. Never ever overgeneralize.

Kids and Thinking Errors (Part 2)

Another thinking error kids use that follow closely with jumping to conclusions is blaming. Children's ability to discern intent or culpability is not developed. Emily may have accidentally bumped into Ben on the playground, but Ben naturally assumes that Emily did it on purpose because he can only see the ...

Monteagle Workshop

Monteagle church of Christ will be hosting another SFT Awareness workshop on Aug 21st! Workshop topics include Damaged Belief Systems and Addictions. This will be a great time for everyone to come out and learn how to become content in life! Gary Washer will be the speaker. The workshop begins ...

Kids and Thinking Errors (Part 1)

Anyone who has gone through the SFT program is aware of the difficulty of eliminating thinking errors from one's thoughts. It requires a great deal of vigilance, patience and willpower. Adults of all ages struggle with taking their thoughts captive. Imagine then how much more difficult it can be for ...

Simplifying Accurate Thinking

It is not uncommon for participants to overcomplicate the attitudes and skills of the SFT model. Accurate thinking may appear to be difficult when one first glances at a 16-error list. However, some of these errors are made easy to recognize by locating key words. The following is a list ...

We Want Chili Cooks!

Our second annual chili cook-off is coming up on October 16th. The cook-off will start at 4:30 p.m. at Highland Heights church of Christ in Smyrna, TN. At this time we are looking for cooks. Our goal is to get at least 50 cooks. There are some changes this year in that ...

Biblical Solutions to Heaven’s Reward Fallacy

When someone participates in SFT Awareness training, one of the skills he will learn is how to become an accurate thinker. There are sixteen thinking errors on the list that is covered in this training. The fifteenth thinking error is called Heaven's Reward Fallacy, which states, "bad things do not ...

The Power of Suffering

I always found it hard to grasp passages like Colossians 1:24, where Paul says that he rejoices in his sufferings. It feels as though we are going against our very nature to be happy about being uncomfortable. It seems hard to imagine that any person could rejoice in sufferings. How ...

A Lack of Knowledge

"It's easy to do, acting like a Christian at church, punching that time clock and leaving the building to begin acting like the rest of the world again. I know because in my own life I have gone to church and put on a show in the past, singing, "Oh ...