When I provide pastoral care for couples, the issues they are dealing with are often compounded by poor communication. I find that we work on creating good communication habits first, for without these skills navigating the waters of turbulent issues in marriage is difficult at best. So here are a couple of hints for you [...]
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Recently my wife was gone for a week on a business cruise. No, that’s not an oxymoron. Business development, conferences, networking and other apropos business of businesses often transacts on cruise ships. Or, so we’re told anyway. So, she’s been gone a week, right? I am excited for her return. I pick her up at [...]
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What is a church? Yes, yes, it’s the Body of Christ, the people who are followers of Jesus as Lord and Savior and not the brick and mortar in which they gather. But when you are starting something new, there is a physical thing called a church to which you are inviting people to be [...]
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The most difficult thing for a Christian husband is balancing a Godly job description with the nature of the alpha male. A husband must be able to handle God’s mandates for a husband as revealed in the Word of God with the psyche of a male to be the alpha in the relationship. How can [...]
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Joined a fitness center yesterday. I joined thinking that I was mentally ready to change the way I live so that my visible self reflected what I believe my spiritual self was intended to be by God. A dear friend and mentor, the late Bishop Leo Alard, said something about his large but still-smaller-than-my-physique in [...]
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I am a big fan of figure skating. During the Olympics. I am a bigger fan of downhill skiing. During the Olympics. I’m the biggest fan of curling. During the Olympics. Funny, isn’t it? Aren’t we curious creatures about the way we can pick things up with gusto and put them down without a second [...]
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There are times in our lives when we need to remember that the Gospel is not always pretty, not always clean, not always palatable to someone who has God limited to a self-serving job description. In a recent conversation with a friend who celebrates God only as a loving being who can’t help himself but [...]
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“When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, he was not aware that his face was radiant because he had spoken with the Lord. When Aaron and all the Israelites saw Moses, his face was radiant, and they were afraid to come near him. But Moses [...]
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A survey was released yesterday that identified opinions regarding the office work environment. One category was catch phrases used in daily office communication. The jargon often used, and judged negatively according to the poll, seems to me to be trendy and used without the full understand of the meaning of the phrase. Including on the list are: [...]
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Contrary to common understanding, the United States is NOT the only country left in the world that uses the English measurement system of feet, pounds, gallons and Fahrenheit. We are not!!! Okay, so forget that the other two countries are Liberia and Myanmar. Liberia is a small country in west Africa started by former American [...]
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