Three Secrets of a Strong Marriage
In my last post, I mentioned three things Steve and I have done intentionally that have had a positive impact on our twenty-nine-year marriage. The first one is that we
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Listening (and responding) to mental Illness
Some of the people I love most deal daily with depression, or the effects of medicating it. Others deal with seasonal affective disorder, the kind of depression that gets worse
The Parable of the Church Planter (or, “Why I’ve Been Angry With God”)
There’s an old story about a man who is asked by God to push against a large rock. God tells him this is important work, this rock-pushing. He asks the
Grow up.
” … speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ …” – Ephesians 4:15 This line in
A very hopeful New Room
This week, I’ve been attending and being renewed at the New Room Conference, hosted by Seedbed (the publishing house of Asbury Seminary). It has been a great gift to hear
Habit #7: Joyful people know who (and whose) they are.
My daughter looks just like me, a fact that just plain tickles me. People have always remarked about our resemblance. It seems that the older she gets the more obvious
Habit #6: Joyful people recognize they are part of something bigger than themselves.
People are funny. Not you, of course, but people you know. Sociologists tell us that people tend to classify other people in one of three ways: scenery, machinery or people.
Habit #5: Joyful people pursue progress, not perfection.
I have a goal. It is to do one regulation push-up. One. I was inspired to this goal by Olivia Perez-Breland who posted one day on Facebook that she’d accomplished
Habit #3: Joyful people know how to wait.
Our church has been in a season of remarkable transition in the last year or so — a season of trusting and waiting and listening and deepening. Change is not
Habit #2: Joyful People pursue intimacy with God.
Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. –
Habit #1: Joyful people forgive easily
Malcolm Gladwell has written a book called Blink, about the thousand decisions we make every day in the smallest slices of time — choices we make in split-seconds during a
The habits of joyful people
“I tell you these things that my joy might be in you, so that your joy might be full.” – Jesus (John 15:11) Did you ever run across the old
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