Making personal boundaries is part of a strong, healthy relationship. Voicing your needs and wants in a constructive manner helps others understand you better. Having boundaries define what is valuable to you. Forming a boundary, however, can be …
Relationships
Encouraging Beyond Words
Although being an encourager is a spiritual gift from God, God wants all of us to be encouragers- to minister comfort and counsel to others (Acts 14:22, 1 Thessalonians 5:11, Hebrews 10:25). Encouragement can change someone's day and/or possibly …
Anger- The Emotion Incognito
A few weeks ago there was a terrible tragedy in the quaint suburban town I live in. A mother stabbed her own eight year old son one hundred times and then she stabbed the five year old girl she was babysitting. She murdered both of them. In her …
One Simple and Powerful Word
"In our own case we accept excuses too easily. In other peoples we do not accept them easily enough." ~ C.S.Lewis. Many years ago I found myself thinking about a word. I felt like the Lord was saying to me "If only my people had more of this, the …
Dating The Right Person
"I wish had known that the in-love experience is not an adequate foundation for marriage. Nobody told me this. I thought the whole thing was you fall in love with somebody, and it’s so wonderful, and it’s so euphoric, and it’s going to be that way …
Marriage as a Pathway to Holiness
Most of us grow up believing that fairy tales are true and that our prince in shining armor will come, swoop us off our feet, and that we will then live happily ever after. Movies, hollywood and the world around us confirms this way of …