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Sex: Super Glue for Your Marriage What role does sex play in your marriage? Is it Super Glue or Dynamite? I once heard that sex is about 10 percent of marriage; unless you’re not having it, then it’s 90 percent.   Sex is to marriage what a barometer is to the weather. It measures the […]

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Marriage

Are You Spoiling Your Own Marriage?

Make Your Marriage Better Not Worse This is a behind the scenes peek at one day in which I had a chance to see if I’d learned anything at all about loving my husband. I’m gonna show you two photos I took in my kitchen one morning. My new podcast is called Divine Connections and […]

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Parenting

Imagine Your Kids as Grownups

Children are not casual guests in our home. They have been loaned to us temporarily for the purpose of loving them and instilling a foundation of values on which their future lives will be built. James Dobson Begin With the End in Mind This is advice I swiped from a book on blogging, but it […]

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Marriage

Your Marriage: 3 Lessons On the Forces That Shape Us

Your Christian Marriage  Let’s talk about Christian marriage, in particular yours. Which saying best describes your marriage? My spouse brings out the best in me.My spouse brings out the worst in me. If you’re human, and I bet you are, both have been true from time to time.We have such unreasonable expectations at the beginning […]

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Opening Up the Best Known Verse in the Bible

Seeing With Fresh Eyes It’s easy to pass over the most familiar Bible verse of all time. We skim read it because we know it so well. Nothing new to see here. But wait! There is. I found it in a Devotional and I want to share it with you. First let me remind you […]

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Faith

At 70 John Piper Doubles Down

Your Christian Life After Retirement It seems only natural that older people retire, right? Well, Pastor John Piper doesn’t see it that way. At least not for Christians. They may retire from a job, but never from the great opportunity to serve God and contribute to His purposes as long as they’re still present in […]

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Faith

Are We Getting the Message?

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.Malcolm Muggeridge Sometimes when you sense a special moment you gotta stop and get out of the car!Driving home one late afternoon I saw a huge gathering of birds flying in an amazing […]

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Faith

Today You’re the Perfect Age

Is There A Perfect Age? Last night trying to do downward facing dog I thought to myself, “You’re too old for this”! But that just can’t be true.I was reading through the early chapters of Genesis this morning, stiff muscles and all, and I saw that Noah was like 500 years old when he started […]

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My NYR List For A Better 2016!

  New Year’s Resolutions (NYR) for 2016 Is it possible you can make 2016 a better year by creating a list of New Year’s Resolutions? I don’t know, but I’m gonna try. Whether you see it as motivation, inspiration, or an exercise in futility—The New Year’s Resolutions List has made its annual appearance here there […]

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Faith

Lessons From A Child On Sharing Your Faith

Her Compassion & Her Faith We all have flaws.  His was that he was a leper.But this story isn’t about him, it’s about her.About a little girl child, part of the spoils of war, who without hostility or bitterness, without meanness or vengeful spite wanted to see him healed. How does a child, abducted from […]

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