Even Jesus did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many. Excerpted from Mark 10:45 We talk a lot about servant’s hearts, and when it is fairly balanced between TheGorgeous Redhead and me it works just great. A couple years ago, however, I experienced a time when …
“Is there any encouragement from belonging to Christ? Any comfort from his love? Any fellowship together in the Spirit? Are your hearts tender and compassionate? Then make me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly with each other, loving one another, and working together with one mind and purpose.” Philippians 2:1-2 The big questions is: How do you …
Finders Keepers What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate. Mark 10:9 NASB I bet you are not aware of the research that has shown that about two-thirds of all divorces today are occurring in low-conflict marriages. Many of these come from what we like to call parallel marriages. Couples get their mail, eat, …
Jesus saiid a man is supposed to leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife cleaving to her while forsaking all others so the two can become one flesh. There seems to be no shortage of those willing to get naked and in stacks of two becoming one flesh, but the …
Elizabeth Barrett Browning penned…’grow old along with me, the best is yet to be, the last of life for which the first was made.’ So much of our culture is built on physical beauty…but the older we get the more the allergy to gravity takes hold of most all of us. Somebody told he he …
Just looked back at the NUGGET for June 26 – Relationships don’t just happen or persist! About the same time, this article from Les and Leslie Parrott came over the transom. It is such a timely topic from their www.symbis.com site from the same date. Thinking about moving in with your significant other before you …
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OK, so many of you are too young to remember the irreverent sitcom All In The Family. The main protagonist was a politically incorrect bully and snob named Archie Bunker. Here is a snapshot of this guy. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK13a1yryVg) He was such a jerk. When I married the first time, Archie is hI’ll admit I was …
Have you ever felt like your marriage was in a rut? It is a scary place to be. Left untended a rut will produce a parallel relationship. Have you and your spouse become a parallel marriage? Like a couple of railroad rails…disappearing in the distance, but never coming together. A rut does not happen suddenly …
Any time you hear or see a story of a quest to climb Everest, the unsung heroes are the mountain guides or sherpas of high in the Himalayas. They lead you, protect you and guide you, but here’s one bit of information that most people don’t know unless they’ve worked alongside a sherpa. One recently …
Lisa Penn-James offered these golden tips on a Better Marriages Group site on LinkedIn I follow. I published this back in 2015, and it’s so good I need to see it again These are dynamite! Sheila Wrey Gregoire is a Christian author of 7 books and a frequent speaker to women’s groups and marriage conferences. …
