You may have noticed it's been a while between the last post in the Narcissist Series and this one. It's because this is so hard for me to write and also, not everyone will agree with me. This subject has caused a good deal of pain and dissension in the church, so I don't enter ...
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April 22, 2019 11:22 pm | 
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At the conference where I spoke this weekend, Todd Wilson (The Family Man) said something profound: "If you get your marriage right, everything else becomes so much easier." In light of that, it behooves us to take the greatest pains to work on building our marriages. Marriage God's Way Conference is just for that purpose, and ...
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Fifteen years Nineteen years ago we married, mainly because we were infatuated with each other and thought it would be cool to get to share a house. God's direction and miraculous grace on those two wayward young people cannot be measured, as I ponder the depth and growth of our love--he's my husband, my teacher, my ...
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In no particular order, instead of making new year's resolutions, I've been working on a list of simple things I'm doing to make this year better. I am a simple girl, I love simple changes and I don't want to feel overwhelmed by resolutions I know I can't won't keep. Health There's nothing like aging that will make ...
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January 9, 2017 11:43 pm | Comments (11)
Sometimes I need to give myself a good old-fashioned "talkin' to" and you may as well eaves drop 'cause this is gonna be good. I find it easy to talk about this or that virtue of being a Christian--"be kindly affectionate to one another...", "in lowliness of mind, let each consider others better than himself...", and ...
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It may be that nothing has ever convicted me yet inspired me to love my husband more than these brief words from country music singer Rory Feek at his wife's funeral. (If you haven't followed the story of Joey's fight with cancer, though it is sad, it is powerful and beautiful, their unwavering faith chronicled ...
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I received a letter from a reader who was really broken about how her past had affected her marriage. I agonized with her because I felt every pain she expressed. Although she explained that she was technically a virgin when she married, she had far crossed the line of intimacy with previous boyfriends. Harmless? That's what ...
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A couple I know very well are getting a divorce after almost 3 decades of marriage. The husband discovered she was having an affair. I am heart-broken. They are heart-broken. Everyone who knows them is heart-broken. They were professing believers. Every time I hear another story like this one, my first thoughts are, "How?" "Why?" And every story is different. But in ...
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I am going through a growing time, to put it mildly, where the Lord has used several circumstances in my life to bring me to the end of myself, which, though it feels like an awful place to be (especially for a control freak), it’s actually the ONLY safe place to be. The only place ...
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A man approaching retirement called the retirement office to inquire about his pension. Afterward, he was asked if his wife worked. "She's worked all her life making me happy", he replied. "Yes sir, but has she earned money to receive her pension?" "When we got married we agreed on an arrangement", he said. "I would earn the ...
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July 22, 2015 1:00 am | Comments (39)
