Image courtesy of Ed Yourdon via Flickr under Creative Commons License While reading yesterday’s post you may have realized you are in a conflicted or devitalized type of marriage. The bad news about this is that these marriages end in divorce considerably more often than the other types. The good news, though, is that thereContinue reading “Marriage Hope: 10 Things You Can Do TODAY If You Are in a Bad Marriage”
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Five Marriage Types — What Kind of Marriage are You In?
Photo courtesy of Elena Lagaria via Flickr, under Creative Commons License David Olson, in his exhaustive research on marriage, has found that marriages fall into one of five types. The Five Types Vitalized Partners in these marriages tend to agree on most things and have excellent communication and conflict resolution skills (the two skills withoutContinue reading “Five Marriage Types — What Kind of Marriage are You In?”
Why Not You? Why Not Today?
Image courtesy of blmiers2 via Flickr, under Creative Commons License Today someone is going to move a little bit closer to realizing their dream. Why not you? Today someone is going to spend a few minutes doing something that no one in the world is making them do, but that will change their life forever. WhyContinue reading “Why Not You? Why Not Today?”
Top book recommendations: Spiritual Formation
Photo by bsher on Flickr. Used under Creative Commons License Top Books: Spiritual Formation And so we come to spiritual formation. I have delayed writing this post because I have been trying to figure out how to keep the number of books in this category from overwhelming you, my dear readers. You will no doubtContinue reading “Top book recommendations: Spiritual Formation”
Moving Your Dream Forward
Image from egenerica on Flickr under Creative Commons License You can’t sell books or music or anything else if you can’t get an audience. To get an audience, you have to build a platform. That’s hard to do, but at least now it’s possible with the Internet. If I am going to sell my book,Continue reading “Moving Your Dream Forward”
I’m not okay, you’re not okay, and that’s okay
Image “Failure” from PixelPlacebo under Creative Commons License Nobody is okay Do you ever get sick of the fakeness of society how everybody walks around like everything is okay? I have never lived anywhere but in America, so I don’t know if what I observe and experience is unique to American culture, or Western culture, orContinue reading “I’m not okay, you’re not okay, and that’s okay”
Update on the book: Fear, prt. Infinity
Expect to bury something. You’ll either bury your fear in faith or bury your talents in fear. — Ann Voscamp Thanks to the large number of you who have continued checking out the blog regularly. I realize the frequency of posts has been way down, even since I returned from my sabbatical. I was not ableContinue reading “Update on the book: Fear, prt. Infinity”
Do You Have the Guts to Be a Wimp?
I preach and write a lot about looking at your own flaws and leaving other people alone. Nearly every time I do someone says to me, “But there comes a time when you have to stand up for yourself. You don’t want to be a wimp and let people walk all over you.” Of courseContinue reading “Do You Have the Guts to Be a Wimp?”
Notes from Manresa, prt. 3
3:39 pm. Tired, but sleep is not coming. The noise of my fan seems like a violent insult over the thick blanket of silence in this place. Right now I cannot imagine three days of this. I just want something – anything – to do. I want to go home. 4:08 pm. Feels like detox. Continue reading “Notes from Manresa, prt. 3”
But the Bible says…
People should be extremely careful before using “but the Bible says” as a way to defend their own behaviors or condemn those of others. Here are some hilarious questions that taking the Bible literally could raise. 1. Leviticus 25:44 states that I may possess slaves, both male and female, provided they are purchased from neighboringContinue reading “But the Bible says…”
Temp Arbor 