Weekly Newsletter

Weekly Newsletter

February 14, 2015

finding wisdom in a foolish world

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Last week I wrote When Life Hurts: Show Me How to Treat You. The article was about going through times of grief and the need to show other people how they can best love and interact with us. Yet the article has a second application as well. At all times we are showing others how they should treat us. A church member was irate. Something had happened which he did not like and he wasContinue Reading...

We want sex to be easy. We assume it should be so. Attraction is easy. As soon as hormones kick in, a child begins their journey to adulthood and it is no struggle to be attracted to someone. It’s exciting and enjoyable. The culmination of attraction is a sexual encounter, and we assume that something which begins without effort will continue without effort. Yet nothing can be further from the truth. Great sex is rarelyContinue Reading...

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Never make a decision until you have to. There are some decisions which need to be made now. To wait is to risk. If you do not make the decision now, you will likely make a poor decision later. It’s true with exercise, money, food, character, and a host of other issues. You should decide right now what you will eat 12 hours from now. If you decide now, you will likely make the decisionContinue Reading...

Maybe it only happens in the south, but in my hometown it is nearly impossible to sit in Starbucks or any other coffee shop without hearing the same conversation: “It has radically changed my life.” “I was depressed, couldn’t figure out what to do next, when suddenly it happened.” “I prayed for just the right person for me to share this with.” “I tried to go to sleep and you just kept coming to myContinue Reading...