Your marriage can be restored no matter the problem. God can heal all wounds whether they were caused on accident or on purpose. If the two return to their first love, Jesus, then they can be restored to their second love, each other. A partnership must be reformed and their marriage must take top priority […]
Read More Healing for your hurting marriageOften we think about tithing and offering and are told to bring our best to the Lord. Our best is often defined as 10% of our pay check and then whatever else we can offer above and beyond. We are also told to sacrifice with special love offerings to the Lord! All of these things […]
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These marriage tips come from my own experience, from conversations with others and from personal study in God’s Word and books on marriage. They are separated in sections. The lower numbers are for dating (under 100), starting marriage (100-199), building marriage (200-299), warnings and caution in marriage (400-499), rebuking troubles in marriage (500-599), rebuilding a […]
Read More Marriage TipsIn attempting to understand each other unfortunately we sometimes have an ideal view of relationships. In our marriage, sometimes we feel the other person should “just know” what is wrong or “figure it out.” The problem here is an idealistic view of a relationship. The one spouse is saying, in essence, “If you really loved […]
Read More Only God can read mindsI am writing this to anyone who currently feels like they are abandoned by God or struggling with those feelings. Please know you will get those days. There are times when we feel alone physically and spiritually. We feel lost and afraid and abandoned. There are also times when we feel spiritually alone like God […]
Read More Feeling abandoned by God?(Message from May 24, 2010 on Pentecost. Of course the delivery was different as this was a much earlier draft.) Pentecost Sunday – What does this mean? What shall we do? Today is Pentecost Sunday, there have been 50 days since the resurrection of Christ. I want to show you a little historical perspective here […]
Read More Pentecost SundayYou can’t be an instrument of His peace to this world if you are constantly complaining about what you don’t have or what you can’t do. True instruments of His peace would be content where they are as God has placed them. Not content in the sense that you don’t look to improve or grow, […]
Read More Instruments of peace(Originally written on May 21, 2010, this was to help me process the struggles of leadership and being an example to others.) Often times I talk with pastors and lay leaders in the church and one of the biggest stress we face is our inability to allow ourselves to be human and fraile. Our leadership […]
Read More The humanity of spiritual leadersReal love is obvious and mutually understood. Ladies, if you or your ‘man’ has to say “what we have is real love,” then you are just trying to convince yourself. Real love is long lasting and stands strong through all situations. If your ‘love’ is represented by short bursts of emotion and powerful urges, then […]
Read More Real loveShame on us for making our pastor constantly nurse us with milk! We need to be out developing disciples not sitting in the church just waiting for our next sip of milk! God is not pleased! We have the opportunity to finally get away from the milk and get into the meat. How dare you […]
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