Weekly Newsletter

Weekly Newsletter

September 04, 2015

finding wisdom in a foolish world

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Some women love it. Many wives hate it. (See: Why Men Run to Football and From Marriage) Football season has returned (For all International readers, whenever I talk about football I’m talking about American football—the sport primarily played holding and throwing the ball, not kicking it. The sport in which one primarily manipulates with one’s foot, I call soccer). Every year, more channels are added, more games are shown, and many more wives grow deeplyContinue Reading...

For something so central to creation, the Bible rarely speaks directly about marriage. It records the first marriage in Genesis 2, sensuously describes the joys of marriage in the Song of Solomon, and occasionally references marriage in the epistles. But by and large, the topic of marriage is not a major theme in the Bible. This doesn’t mean the Bible has little to say about marriage. Nearly every Biblical passage can be used to betterContinue Reading...

Five months ago I walked into a small office and after a few seconds of chit-chat heard the question I’ve asked hundreds of times, “So what’s going on?” While I’ve never hesitated to get emotional help over the last two decades from friends and co-workers, it was my first time to sit with a stranger and discuss what is going on in my life. From My Office to His The journey to the counselor’s officeContinue Reading...

How are you preparing your kids to make wise decisions in a world full of false advertising? Most parents aren’t. Despite that our children are bombarded with hundreds of messages every single day, a majority of parents never consider how to assist their children to interpret what they are seeing and make good decisions in response (and often despite) those messages. (See: Stop Breaking the Ninth Commandment on Facebook) Not all advertising is bad. There isContinue Reading...

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