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Solving Conflicts In Marriage
Rules for Couples’ Conflict 1. Clearly define the problem. Clarify what the actual conflict is first. Then, see if there is any other reason this conflict is here: tired, low sugar level, etc. (Prov. 13:10; 18:13; 22:3) 2. Quickly acknowledge the problem soon after the mistake and try to resolve it. Don’t hope the problem […]
Healing The Father-Wound
HEALING THE FATHER-WOUND: THE ULTIMATE MEN’S MOVEMENT Copyright © Gordon Dalbey 1997. All rights reserved. See, I will send you the prophet Elijah before that great and dreadful day of the Lord comes. He will turn the hearts of the fathers to their children, and the hearts of the children to their fathers; or else […]
Soulforce
October 8, 2000 Brothers and Sisters of the Church: What is more important than to follow Jesus? Is that not our final and fundamental authority for everything that we do, either as leadership or membership in the church? Apart from understandable disagreements on specifics, details, how, when, and where, we all the know the WHAT. […]
Our Family
A little wisdom first………… “And in the end it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” — Abraham Lincoln “This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day. Thou ‘canst not then be false to any man.” — William […]
Influence
CONTROL, POWER & INFLUENCE: SIX BASIC IDEAS TO CONSIDER 1. All control is self-control. Although you may believe that you can control another (or vice-versa), the truth is that what you perceive as control is influence. 2. You can influence another’s reactions or choices, but that other has the choice of whether or not to […]
Old Age
LOOKING BACK As I understand it, those who speak about a mid-life crisis are referring to the fact that many people undergo a time in their middle years as they think about their goals and what they have, or have not, achieved. For some people this crisis causes them to run away from their responsibilities […]
Children And Divorce
HELPING CHILDREN COPE WITH DIVORCE (Part two) Some Long Term Effects of Divorce on Children Norman and Ann Bales In our last newsletter, we identified three myths that people believe about the effect of divorce on children. One of those myths perpetuates the fiction that children are resilient and bounce back in a few months […]
Are You Feeling Old?
ARE YOU FEELING OLD? You will after you read this! YIKES!!!!! If not, consider this: This fall’s college freshman class was born after 1980. ** The Iranian hostage crisis occurred before they were conceived. ** They have no memory of a time before MTV. ** “New Wave” is their parents’ musical generation. ** They have […]
Generations
by Paul Kelm God created each of us with a unique personality; and all of us have been shaped in part by a handful of individual experiences. But each generation has a different view of the church. Each one expects different things from the church and becomes involved or doesn’t become involved for different reasons. […]
Ending This Stage Of Life
“Ending This Stage of Life” Religion in Daily Life By the Rev. Edward Chinn, D.Min. Rector, All Saints’ Church 9601 Frankford Ave. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19114 (215) 637-5225 Written 16 September 2000 On the first Tuesday of each month, I conduct a Memorial Service at the Fox Chase Cancer Center. The Palliative Care Department of the […]
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