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Emotional Bank Account…

Wednesday May 9, 2012 Many authors talk about something akin to the emotional bank account. None have made it more popular than Stephen Covey in the classic book The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. (p. 188). The concept is that our actions toward others will make deposits or withdrawals from an emotional/relational account. As with a personal...

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Reduce Wedding Planning Stress

If you do a Google search on “wedding stress” you’ll get over 70 million results.  Which is stressful.  Weddings are a joyous celebration, but as any bride or groom knows, they are also inherently stressful. Researchers have found that getting married is actually more stressful than getting fired. Between money issues, family issues, and...

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Best Job

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Land the Plane!

Wednesday May 2, 2012 Communication can be a challenge at the best of times, so it is sometimes helpful to have an understanding of communication styles. In the Life Ready series called Marriage Oneness, host Tim Lundy talks about the different ways we communicate.  This is not an issue of good versus bad communication, but just understanding different...

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Hitting Rock Bottom

Many people consider depression as a social taboo. As a result, a great majority of people who are depressed do not seek help. They face their battles alone, with no one but themselves to turn to. Their subtle cries for help are silenced, and their grief is discounted to something no more than a mere case of "the blues". Eventually they hit rock...

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The Pursuit of Perfection

What makes you perfect? Good enough? Worthy? Is it when you have meals ready on the table, when lunches are packed and ready to go, or if the house is tidy? Perhaps when you’ve succeeded in balancing your family budget? On top of their daily responsibilities, mothers also try to combat self-destructive thoughts of not meeting and exceeding expectations....

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The Cost of Faith

If someone asked you what your biggest dream was what would you say? As a high school student the answer was easy for me—to play college basketball. Even though I was short and white, I was determined to play hoops at the next level. Since I grew up in a small town in the mountains of southern California, it was difficult to find a good pick-up...

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On God and Hell

I don’t like the idea of hell. Hell is not merely an academic issue, but one that is very personal to me. To think that some of my loved ones could spend eternity in a place where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth and eternal torment is deeply troubling (Matthew 8:12; Rev. 20:10). But despite my emotional reservations, I have come to believe,...

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