Do you ever feel guilty because the traditional quiet time just doesn’t cut it for you? Are you increasingly frustrated by a “one size fits all spirituality” that most definitely does not fit …
Avoiding Marital Eruptions
I was shooting baskets in my Pacific Northwest boyhood home in 1980 when a gigantic plume of smoke way off in the distance told me that the world had changed. Mount St. Helens had finally blown its …
Is it Time to Resurrect Shame?
Shame died about thirty years ago and I’m wondering if the health of our nation depends on its resurrection. Psychologists, self-help gurus, and educational experts began warning that the real …
To Cherish Is to Protect
If you cherish some thing, you protect it. In the same way, if you cherish some one, you will protect them. One of the ways to build a cherishing heart toward your spouse, and to help your spouse feel …
Tough Christians
If the great Christian classics agree on one thing, it’s that true disciples will be hated, persecuted, and slandered. To seek glory in heaven is to accept ridicule on earth. Here’s how one …
Grace and Truth: The Key to Cherishing an Imperfect Spouse
Chet was being a jerk at a family gathering and a relative called him out on it. On the way home, he asked Bonnie what she thought. “You weren’t being a jerk,” Bonnie said. “You were just being …
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