Archives for November 2015

God is not stingy, miserly, or grudgingly giving people what they need. He is generous. ...

Don’t sacrifice your relationships for your image of the perfect Christmas....

Give thanks to the Lord, our God and King. His love endures forever....

The Spirit of God is a creative Spirit. And all those who are filled with the Spirit receive his creative power....

Our creative work should produce pleasure and joy in us....

The good, beautiful, creative work of God fills the world with joy and wonder. ...

Together, we seek each other’s blessing....

No marriage can thrive without a support system....

Choosing to reinvest makes a tremendous difference....

Ask for faith to trust that God has either ordained or is redeeming your marriage....

God has plans for us as a community: to do good in our midst and through us....

We can move into even the most intense conflicts with creativity and love....

We might try to be healthy, but we don't live in a vacuum....

Like a nuclear arsenal, the biting and devouring power of our words is too dangerous to use safely....

These vivid words for human conflict tell us something significant about why we fight. ...

Close relationships created charged environments where contending factions fight fiercely....

Throughout the Bible we see God continuing to pursue and bless humanity in exile. God is with us, always....

Shifting the blame off of ourselves doesn’t protect us in the long run....

In Jesus, you can choose how you’ll respond when someone blames you for their bad behavior or when you’re confronted about your own....

When our foolish actions are brought to light, we’re always faced with the temptation to blame those actions on someone else....

The results of our rebellion ...