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Forgiveness, Key to Strong Relationships 1- Unforgiveness is Death for...
For many people the biggest stumbling block for living happy lives is often directly proportional to their relationship with family members. When I worked with Teen Challenge – a residential drug and...
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Finding Friends in a Sea of People – Moving to a New Country
Relationships and making friends is difficult for me it seems. Yet here, I’m talking about friendship. Some people will tell you it’s as simple as stepping out and starting a conversation, but for...
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Forgiveness, Key to Strong Relationships: Part 2 – Beware Perceived...
Forgiveness is a key to strong relationships and when dealing with forgiveness there is an area of what I call perceived transgressions. All cultures and belief systems establish a set of codes,...
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What Hat Are You Wearing? Friendship
Figuratively we wear these hats that identify who we are. For instance the “Friend Hat.” What constitutes a” friend hat?” Someone that is encouraging to us? Someone that holds us up in hard times?...
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Who Wants to be First? God and Family
I recently read an article about a funny but tragic story where a man dressed up as Big Foot. He got the long-haired body suit on and decided to become the 1st person to walk in daylight across the...
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Forgiveness, Key to Strong Relationships: Lessons from a Foster home. I remember the first time the undersized 4-year-old fell asleep. Her red hair was roughly cut, and her dirty cloths stuck to her...
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Forgiveness, Key to Strong Relationships: Part 4 – Seven helpful forgiveness...
The problem with not forgiving others is that un-forgiveness can lead to bitterness, envy, anger, resentment and a number of other perversions that inhibit us from living our lives. Un-forgiveness...
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Facebook Friends… Really?
Friends? In a Facebook world of easy and instant communication, we can be lead to believe we have many friends. Having friends is a good thing, but it is the epitome of naivety to believe that because...
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Problems Suck 2 – Dealing with Difficult People
Those difficult people are driving me mad. They make me so angry. I just want to… Sound familiar? Well it should, because this probably has crossed your mind more than you’d like to admit. This by far...
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12 ways to better communication
Even in the best situations, communication conflicts in relationships, business, or work are inevitable. Unfortunately, the unskilled and negative ways we typically respond to these conflicts often...
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Why we hate to write, but should do it anyway.
Why we hate to write We are born communicating. As babies we cry, laugh and fuss our way through life. As we get older, we learn to use talking and body language to communicate. Then we find out this...
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Help! my child’s in junior high
After raising 6 teenagers and being a youth pastor for over a decade, one learns a great deal about young people. One of the first things you may notice from this age group is the vast difference in...
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Help! My child’s in high school
I’ll never forget the time we had 11 kids in our house with 7 of them as teenagers. We had run a foster home for many years, but never imagined we’d have this many teenagers, let alone at the same...
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Selective Perception: Is it reality or flawed opinion
Selective perception is the process by which people perceive what they want to in media messages while ignoring opposing viewpoints. It is a broad term to identify the behavior all people exhibit to...
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Effective Parenting: 11 Guidelines
1. Really listen…Listening creates clear communication by giving undivided attention and encouraging expression of feelings. Have real conversations, when you both listen and respond/react to each...
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Romantic Love Equals True Happiness ?
Fining our soul mate often comes when we stop trying to find them. Well at least that’s how the common saying goes. This may not be completely accurate, but of course desperation is hardly an...
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Help! My Child’s In College: 6 things to remember for college parents
I have learned many things as a university professor, youth pastor, and parent of 6 children. Here are 6 things for college parents should remember. 1. Being top of the class is overrated. I’ve worked...
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Building Healthy Relationships
When we hear the word healthy, what comes to mind? I asked this question to over a dozen people recently. Every answer included these three basic components – eating healthy food – getting enough...
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What a Healthy Relationship Really Means
Before we move on, let me get this off my chest. Unlike some common beliefs, pushed heavily by social media, you and I do not need an audience to find success. We find success by who we are and what we...
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How To Have Healthy Relationships
Many believe love is the only thing necessary for a healthy relationship. Although love is important, it’s not necessarily the only thing. Most people say they are “in love” when they get married, but...
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