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Lean Hard Into That Rudder I’ve always found James’ teaching on taming the tongue exciting and bewildering in equal measure. His claim is extraordinary – that by controlling our tongues we can master our bodies and take charge of the direction of our entire lives. On the one hand this...

6 Ways To Find Happiness With An Emotionally Unavailable Partner Dear Terry, I’ve been unhappy for a long time because my husband and I are like roommates and rarely spend time together. We’ve been married 20 years and have two kids, 14 and 16. My husband is pretty emotionally unavailable...

Why Do We Bother With Relationships? Almost every human is actively pursuing relationship. We like having friends. We are desperate for a spouse (or a dating partner). We want to be a part of group, to be in the in-crowd. We are afraid of being left out and isolated. Why? The reality is...

The Secret To True Greatness Everybody wants to be great. We want lives of importance. Lives that matter and impact others around us. Lives that both satisfy our longings and affect the world around us. In our pursuit of greatness, we have ruined ourselves. In the name of greatness, we...

Dark Days Of Depression Nizam is a friend of mine. He has a firm and deep Christian faith, and is an inspirational spoken word artist. I have shared one of his modern poetry performances before on here. Nizam also suffers from depression. This week is Mental Health Awareness week (see the...

People On The Internet Are Not Your Pastor The Internet has made it profoundly easy for any with access to the web to build a platform. Not only has it enabled prominent, disqualified pastors to continue to have an audience, it has given many a young man aspiring to greatness a place to develop...

What It Takes To Truly See Someone We live in New York and walk by thousands of people every day. A group of friends was talking recently about whether or not New Yorkers are rude or if they are just busy, unable to stop and see every one of the millions of others in the city. The...

3 Ways To Know If You’re Ready For A Relationship Do you think you are ready to enter a committed relationship ? Read below, to see if you truly are ! 1. Do you Love the Lord with all Your Heart ? Is the Lord your everything ? A good indicator that God is your everything is seeing where you...

7 Ways To Avoid A Toxic Relationship Dear Terry, My husband and I have been married for six years. When we started dating, it was like fireworks going off every time we were together. We could not keep our hands off of each other. In the past three years, things have really soured between us...

How To Deal With Past Hurts And Resentments In Marriage When my husband and I got married shortly after I graduated college, I waged a personal vendetta against him which dated back to high school. Sounds crazy, right? Why would I marry someone I harbored resentment against? I was hurt by...

Setting God-Honoring Boundaries For Purity: Advice For Women From Wise Christ Followers A reader commented on one of my blogs about sexual purity and Christian leaders: Let me be absolutely clear upfront. This blog is not about blaming victims of sexual abuse or about excusing the abuses of...

Can You Handle The Truth? [ 1 min read ★ ] . . . woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up—Ecclesiastes 4:10 Support and encouragement are crucial for friendship, of course...

riday: Read John 7:1-39 The events of John 7-8 take place during the Feast of Tabernacles or Booths (2). Once again, John portrays Jesus as the fulfillment of this feast! In order to understand what John describes in these chapters, we need to reflect a bit on the Feast of Tabernacles. The...

Thursday: Read John 6:41-71 John 6:41 is quite explicit: Jesus declares Himself to be the Bread of Life (33; think of the manna that Moses provided). John notes that the “Jews were grumbling” (41). This is exactly what the Israelites were doing (“grumbling”) in the account of the manna from...

Wednesday: Read John 6:1-40 In 6:1-71, John portrays Jesus as the fulfillment of the Jewish feast of Passover by noting that Jesus is the bread of life. In John 4, Jesus offers the woman at the well the gift of water that would become “a well of water springing up to eternal life” (4:14). Now...

Tuesday: Read John 5:1-47 In John 5-10, John depicts Jesus as the fulfillment of major Jewish festivals. John will mention a festival (Sabbath, Passover, Tabernacles) and then show that Jesus either fulfills its primary symbols or that He has authority over the festival itself. Jesus returns...

Gospel Of John Devotional Guide #2: John 4:27-7:29 Monday: Read John 4:27-54 In this section, John stresses Jesus as the Word. Jesus speaks and things happen. John also notes that it is the Samaritans and not the Galileans who believe His word. The disciples return from getting the food (27...

12 Signs You Have An Inner Control Freak (That May Be Coming Out) Has he lost that loving feeling? Are you scratching your head wondering where it’s gone? Your inner control freak may be driving it (and him) away. Don’t think you’re a control freak? Most control freaks don’t. The problem with...

Change Your Patterns Today I went to wash my hands in the restroom and discovered they moved the hand towel dispenser to the other side of the sink. I reached up to dry my hands and there was a sign hanging to the right of the sink, where the dispenser used to be. After a few seconds of...

Should Couples Stay In An Adversarial Marriage For The Sake Of Their Children? By far, this is one of the most commonly asked questions my clients ask me. The reason why this question is so difficult to answer is because every family is different and one size doesn’t fit all when it comes to...