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The Power of Sex
Dr. Mary Anne Layden (University of Pennsylvania) Sex has power – for good or “not good”. “Sex is central to the human species. Sex drives humans to the best and to the worst in their nature. We ignore, or misunderstand, or falsify or misuse sexuality at our peril. For ten years I was a college […]
Absent Fathers, Lost Children
As I look back on more than forty years of married life, I am astonished that the work of the ministry does not destroy ministers’ marriages. The minister will have the best and biggest room in his house for his study. The minister sees less of his family than any member of his congregation does. […]
The Inner Child
From a friend: Would you mind explaining your counselling motto, “It’s never too late to have a happy childhood”? From what I have read and heard of some of your stuff I seem to hear that you are saying, adult wholeness / happiness is experienced to the degree that childhood damage is addressed /healed. Can’t […]
Grandparenting
Some of you might love children (:-) and want to read about our little ones Millie and Bella – http://ameliasgranddad.blogspot.com/ Today’s entry: ‘TEN PAST O’CLOCK’ Millie seemed tired at mid-morning and Grandma asked: ‘Are you tired Millie? What time did you get up?’ ‘Ten past o’clock!’ she responded! Bella’s still not crawling… but it won’t […]
Listening
Order of Service – September 28, 1994 Call to Worship Hymn 582 Jesus I am Resting Opening Prayer Bible Reading Psalm 1; Jeremiah 33:3 Prayer Reflection “Listen” Hymn 747 Jesus Friend of Little Children Devotion Listening to One Another Hymn 541 Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah Benediction HMDV p 81 Listening to One Another […]
Love is better if it’s not lived in sin
By Barney Zwartz November 27, 2005 LIVING “in sin” can damage future married life, says a new study that also suggests devout Christians have better love lives. “Having experienced a de facto relationship in the past is associated with lack of intimacy and greater insecurity in a current relationship,” Andrew Cameron, one of the report’s […]
Now here’s a good Blog on men’s and women’s stuff
http://thecommunityofhope.blogspot.com/ Shalom! Rowland Croucher
Women and Sexuality
SEXUALITY ( notes of a talk by my wife Jan, based on Willard Harley’s ‘His Needs Her Needs’ to a Church Women’s Group, November 2005) INTRODUCTION Pam Ayer’s poem ‘Do I Have to Have Sex at Sixty?’ (http://jmm.org.au/articles/16263.htm) Marital conflict is created when couples fail to make each other happy or when they make each […]
Compelled to Hide?
M. Scott Peck How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others… But even more important is the love that […]
Carrying only what belongs to me
Carrying only what belongs to me. There was once an order of monks that took three strict vows. A vow of celibacy so strict that they were not allowed to so much as shake hands with another person, a vow of charity in which the monks vowed to give up everything to help those in […]
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