What Can You Learn By Reflecting On Your Advent Season?
As we race toward the New Year, it’s worth pausing for a moment and reflecting on the old one. Personally, I’m taking the next few weeks to pray through, and set, a few goals for the coming year. But I’m also unplugging and asking what I learned from this past Advent and Christmas. We can […]
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A Beautiful Mess: Ruth, Christmas & You
Advent is a time of reflection. On what God did in sending Jesus the first time, and, longing for what He will do when Jesus comes again. In all honesty, I’ve found my reflection, and prayerful waiting tends to be pretty vague. I spend a few minutes reading part of ‘the Christmas story’ from Luke […]
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During Advent, Jesus Shows Us How To Wait & Ask
All of a sudden, Advent (Latin ‘coming’ or ‘arriving’) is here. And although we celebrate Christ’s coming, we also remember that we are waiting. Kids wait for gifts on Christmas morning. Big kids (like us) wait for time off at the end of the year, and time to reflect. And all of us wait for […]
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10 Essential Christian Premarital Counseling Topics
So, you’d like to get married. You’ve heard that premarital counseling during your engagement is a good idea. And it is: couples that pursue premarital counseling have a 30% higher success rate and avoid the most common marriage problems. But not all pre-marriage counseling is created equally. There are a lot of misconceptions surrounding it, and many […]
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14 Reasons Your Wife Doesn’t Want Sex
“Anyone who believes that the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach flunked geography.” – Author Robert Byrne So today we’re going to talk about something really important to us men. Sex. More specifically, why your wife doesn’t want sex with you. In fact, research shows clearly what the quote above suggests indirectly: that sex is the […]
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On Christian Marriage: The Key For Long-Term Success
As you reflect on Christian marriage, what one piece of advice would you have given yourself on your wedding day for lasting joy and success? Anyone who’s been married for more than a few months knows it’s both awesome – and really hard – all at once.My wife and I have the privilege of coaching and […]
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What Are You Thankful For? (Coronavirus Edition)
Can you remember when you first heard about the Coronavirus, and how you felt about it? To be honest, I can’t remember much because I thought it would never really affect me. I felt badly for the people going through it, but never truly believed an epidemic in a remote region of China would completely change the way […]
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The Coronavirus Show Us Who We Really Are
Hey everyone, I hope each of you are doing – and feeling – well despite the challenges we’re experiencing with the Coronavirus. Today, I’m writing with a quick reflection for you in a small effort to help us profit from this trying time. There are many lessons we could take away, but here’s one that’s smacking me […]
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How To Keep New Year’s Resolutions: 2 Simple Tips
By late January, about 35% of us will have given up on the goals or resolutions we’ve made. (It’s not hard to see why our resolutions fail.) I’d like to spare you (and myself) that frustration. 😊 If you’re reading this, I bet you’re the kind of person who wants to make, and follow through […]
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A New Year’s Resolutions Template: 4 Critical Principles
About half of all Americans set New Year’s resolutions. Maybe you’re one of them. If you are, you know they’re not easy to keep. One year, I set 11 goals and… only accomplished two of them. (Partly because I made these two big mistakes.) As I did the post-mortem, here’s what I found: an initial […]
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