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A Note From A Sad Client

Hi Rowland, Well, you always give people lots to think about, I have been for my early morning praying, keeping fit and thinking walk and now have an hour before I start work. thankyou for suggesting I hear your talk last night, it was very helpful as this is what I had written in my […]

What Women Want

‘WHAT WOMEN WANT’ In the movie What Women Want, released December 2000, a Chicago advertising executive Nick Marshall (played by Mel Gibson) gets a whole new outlook on life when a fluke accident gives him the ability to read women’s minds. At first this ‘gift’ provides Nick with way too much information, but he then […]

Encouragement’s Element Of Risk

Clergy/Leaders’ Mail-list No. 1-045 (Family Issues) (From All About Families) THE ELEMENT OF RISK (Encouragement – Part 3) by Norman and Ann Bales Can you be sure that your attempt to encourage will be understood, appreciated, responded to and reciprocated? Unfortunately the answer is “no”. Read the story of Hosea and Gomer in the Bible. […]

Children And Divorce

HELPING CHILDREN COPE WITH DIVORCE (Part three) Suggestions That Make Life Easier for Divorced Parents Norman and Ann Bales 1. Children should know why their parents divorced. Obviously, the explanation given to a four-year-old will be much different from the explanation given to a teenager. 2. Be careful how you talk about a former spouse. […]

Parenting And Values

Parenting: Mission Impossible? by Norman and Ann Bales Today’s parents have a tough assignment. Their mission is to provide for their children’s physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual well being for most of the first two decades of a child’s life. In the process, they will be forced to deal with peer influences, music, television, movies, […]

Divorce

WE SAID OUR “DO’S” AND WE SAID OUR “DON’TS” by Greg Cummings A newspaper article told of an Israeli man who died in jail after refusing for decades to say three simple words necessary to divorce his wife. Those words were, “I am willing.” The man, Mr. Abraham, died at age 81 after having been […]

Resources For Parenting

Parenting: Mission Impossible? by Norman and Ann Bales Today’s parents have a tough assignment. Their mission is to provide for their children’s physical, intellectual, emotional and spiritual well being for most of the first two decades of a child’s life. In the process, they will be forced to deal with peer influences, music, television, movies, […]

Intimate Relationships

SPIRIT: SKILLS AND PERSPECTIVES FOR INTIMATE RELATIONSHIPS IN TRUTH WRAPPING IT UP by Mikal Frazier, LMFT, LPC “Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, […]

Learning Disabilities

Specific Learning Disabilities sabotage the efforts of many children to learn in the traditional way. Our son was having an extremely difficult time in school. His classmates treated him like the class dunce and his teachers said he was rebellious. I was spending innumerable hours helping him through home work. He was bright, but just […]

The Best Is Yet To Be

THE BEST IS YET TO BE What do you think of when you hear someone say, “I want to live life to the full” – a good holiday, a world trip, an ocean cruise? Maybe living life to the full for you is something quite different. Thankfully, God allows us to experience many of the […]