Category Archives: Love

Discontentment can sneak up on you

Posted on May 18, 2016 by

Diminished hope easily leads to a deflated spirit of resignation that gradually becomes justified pessimism or even dark cynicism. Here’s a timely call to extravagant gratitude. Continue reading →

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The love language of all good marriages

Posted on March 3, 2016 by

The love language of all good marriages is …. Continue reading →

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What’s love got to do with it?

Posted on February 15, 2015 by

Relationships are miserable when love is absent. But we need an objective way to understand what love looks like. Is there a way to know what love really is? When someone says, “I love you,” is there a way to know if he means it? Read more… Continue reading →

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How can I know he means it?

Posted on February 8, 2015 by

Unlike forgiveness, reconciliation of a broken relationship is a process conditioned on the attitude and actions of an offender. Those who commit significant and repeated offenses must realize that their responses and actions affect the timing of the process. Those who are genuinely repentant will accept this fact with brokenness and humility. Use the seven signs here to be sure someone is truly sorry. Continue reading →

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An Assault on God’s Care

Posted on December 10, 2014 by

An explicit effort on the part of the evil one to assault the truth that God cares for His own. Continue reading →

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What does maturity look like?

Posted on December 1, 2014 by

How can you know whether a potential mate has the characteristics of maturity listed here? Keep in mind that we live in a fake it till you make it culture. Dating often conceals information marriage will later reveal. Continue reading →

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A perpetual dialogue of gratitude

Posted on November 27, 2014 by

The Christian life cannot be lived as God intended apart from a perpetual dialogue of gratitude toward God and others. Initiate an intentional dialogue of thankfulness today. What if God made you live today on only those things you thanked Him for yesterday? Continue reading →

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