Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Faith, Family, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, devotional, tagged devotional, forgive, forgiveness, God, guilty, Jesus, lack of remorse, mercy, pain on June 24, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Do you find it harder to forgive some people than others? There are the remorseful who obviously are sorry for whatever pain they have caused you. For the most part these folks are the easiest to forgive…. Maybe easy is not the right word. I guess it depends on the offense. Maybe in your mind you [...]
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Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Faith, Family, Good News, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, tagged conflict, conflict resolution, differences, love, Marriage, marriage and family, relationships, spouse, weddings on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »
I have several weddings coming up this summer that I will be officiating. During pre-marital counseling and even in the ceremony itself I stress the fact that opposites attract. I believe it is part of God’s plan. We each have our own set of strengths and weaknesses and we are attracted to a person who will compliment those [...]
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Posted in Current Events, Entertainment, Family, Messed Up World, PG Required, Self-Help, Stress, tagged addictions, compulsive, internet on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »
There is an article in today’s UK Telegraphon internet addiction. British psychiatrists believe that 1 in 10 online users are addicted. I know what you are thinking, “Man, maybe I check my email too much or I am hanging out on Myspace too long.
Many of us probably do spend way too much time on the [...]
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Unlucky for some? Dutch statisticians have established that Friday 13th, a date regarded in many countries as inauspicious, is actually safer than an average Friday.
A study published on Thursday by the Dutch Centre for Insurance Statistics (CVS) showed that fewer accidents and reports of fire and theft occur when the 13th of the month falls [...]
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Posted in Christian Living, Current Events, Entertainment, Faith, Family, Leadership, PG Required, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, tagged Christian Living, dad, father, father's day, forgive, forgiveness, husband, intimacy, love, Marriage, marriage counseling, reconciliation, rekindle, relationship, romance, spouse, wife on June 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Father’s day is coming up on June 15. I think in the Christian World we tend to spend a lot of time beating up on fathers for working too much, for insensitivity and for just overall not taking the important responsibility of being a fathers or husbands seriously. There are a lot of good fathers around. [...]
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Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Church, Current Events, Faith, Family, LCC, Leadership, Prayer, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, devotional, e-note, tagged Bible, celebrate, communion, friend, full life, God, graduation, Jeff Overton, Jesus, life, live, Magnificat, Mary, worship on May 30, 2008 | No Comments »
e-note to LCC
Dear Friends,
I know there is a lot going on this time of year between kids sports, school ending, graduations happening, vacations coming, weddings planning, and summer cranking up. I hope you are taking time to chill and not getting too stressed over the details. A friend of mine passed from this world into [...]
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Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Faith, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, devotional, tagged christianity, God, Jesus on May 23, 2008 | No Comments »
It is pretty easy to get caught up in looking at ourselves and being proud of the changes we have made in ourselves as Christian. We study the Word of God, we go to church, we serve others when it feels right. You notice I wrote “proud of the changes”. It is easy to get [...]
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Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Church, Evangelism, Faith, Leadership, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, devotional, tagged challenges, christian, counseling, discouragement, friends, friendship, God, hope, Jesus, joy, life, love, maturity, mentoring, persevere on May 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Jesus said that what is most important is to Love God and Love People. He said that if you could focus on obeying these two commands then all others will fall in under the LGLP umbrella. (Luke 10:27) I found out as a professional counselor that if I could focus on getting people reconnected with God and each [...]
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Posted in Bible Study, Christian Living, Faith, Leadership, Prayer, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, devotional, tagged blackaby, God, Jesus, success on May 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I like Blackaby’s devotional today. My whole life in church I have heard people say that God must be with them if they are successful. You can be successful without God. There are lots of people who don’t ever acknowledge God that are successful. Success can be a great temptation to go at it alone [...]
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Posted in Christian Living, Family, PG Required, RELIGION, Self-Help, Stress, tagged communication, counseling, dating, denial, Family, Gary Chapman, hurt, Marriage, parenting, people, relationships, skills, success, therapy on May 9, 2008 | No Comments »
I was a marriage and family therapist for several years before becoming a pastor. Over and over again the inability to communicate openly and honestly with each other was a major if not the main problem in marriages. Even though women usually communicate in a relationship the most, they are not always authentic or effective. [...]
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