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I had a request to repost this one. It’s a special memory for me…so here you go. A simple question. Do you live in Groundhog Day? One day following another…exactly the same. Get up, do your bathroom stuff, make coffee, maybe have breakfast, get kids’ lunches ready and them off to school, get ready for […]

I can still see them now, Dad in a pair of old dress pants…the seat worn shiny and threadbare, a small hole in the pocket where he kept his stuffed billfold, a long sleeved shirt and a hat to ward off skin cancers to which he was prone…trudging behind his lawnmower at age 90, and

It all began while they were attending a weekend Marriage Retreat and the facilitator asked the guys to name their wife’s favorite flower. One fellow leaned over to his bride and whispered, “I think it’s Pillsbury Self-Rising”…that’s when the fight started. So, in that vein, how much do YOU know about your mate? “Summertime, and

There is nothing heavier to carry than a grudge or unforgiveness 41 Then Jesus told him this story: “A man loaned money to two people-500 pieces of silver to one and 50 pieces to the other. 42 But neither of them could repay him, so he kindly forgave them both, canceling their debts. Who do

The movie that made Marilyn Monroe famous was The Seven Year Itch. The idea was that about every seven years most married people begin to itch where they can’t scratch. They know something is wrong, but they don’t know what, let alone what to do about it. Often they have an affair around that time.

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