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An Open Letter To Friends

Dear Family and Friends, Just a few thoughts about what is happening right now. I’ve heard many say “this is a strange time right now” and “this has never happened before” and it’s true. All over the world, people are staying home to avoid catching a virus, businesses have quit running, schools have closed three…
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What Is God Up To In The World?

Do you know that some of the most perplexing and complicated problems have been solved simply by a person’s focused observation when their thoughts are separated from and untainted by prevailing cultural opinions and influences?   Let’s take for example what a simple observation by a single individual with an unbiased mind can accomplish. Between…
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Role of Adversity – God’s Answer For Pandemics

Considering what is currently transpiring throughout the world, I thought this article taken from my book The Fulfilled Marriage: The Three Doors might be pertinent and serve as an encouragement for you. And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28, New International Version (NIV) Adversity…
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Let’s Wake Up To Who We Are

As I sat at my desk doing some routine work that needed my attention, worship music was playing softly in the background.  Although my inability to multi-task with focus usually prevents me from listening to the words of a song while working, something that Jeremy Camp was singing grabbed my attention so powerfully that I…
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Doing Marriage God’s Way

For those willing to lay their preconceived ideas about their marriages down and begin to do marriage God’s way, there will be unrivaled fulfillment that comes from knowing our Heavenly Father is pleased with us, His children. God loves us and, although He requires us to put Him first, He also desires our marriage to…
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Stop! Share Your Banana!

Esther and I have a few idiosyncrasies in our relationship.  Over the years, we have developed some habits that others might look at as being a little strange. For example, nearly every morning we share a single banana and every evening we share a single chocolate protein bar.  Not only do we share them, the…
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The Marriage Bed

In 307 A.D. Lucius Lactantius A.D. 250–A.D. 325), one of the early fathers of the Church and personal advisor of the faith to Emperor Constantine, penned the following words: When God had formulated the plan of the two sexes, he instilled in them the desire for each other along with delight in intercourse. He, therefore, mixed…
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Downward Spiral

One of the most dangerous events that can happen in flight is for an aircraft to stall. Every airplane has a low-speed point at which it will lose lift and begin to fall out of the sky, sometimes even into an unrecoverable spiral. This is so dangerous that aircraft are equipped with a loud audible warning…
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God and Your Marriage

God fulfills two important roles in our marriages: first, by being the architect or creator in providing the design for your marriage, and secondly, making available on a day-by-day basis through the Holy Spirit grace, help, advice, and empowerment for every couple desiring and willing to “do their part.”   A Christian marriage consists of…
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The Greenhouse Effect

The greatest gift that we can give our children is to raise them in a home where love prevails.  Peace, harmony, and love between mothers and fathers envelop a child with a loving atmosphere that enables them to mature, adopt their parent’s faith, and successfully fulfill their destiny. Just as greenhouse plants begin their growth earlier…
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