How to Affair-Proof Your Marriage
A tragic reality of our society is that more marriages encounter infidelity than those that do not. Research on the subject estimates that at least one spouse in up to 75% of all marriages in the U.S. will be unfaithful to their partner at some point during the union. The problem has reached epidemic proportions. You can bury your head and the sand and believe that there is no need for reasonable precautions. Or, you can exercise due...
Ten Easy Resolutions to Improve Your Marriage
While mulling over ways to change your life for the better this year, why not consider a resolution to improve your marriage? Virtually nothing else that you resolve to do will be more advantageous to your life and happiness in the long run. Here are ten suggestions for relatively easy resolutions you can make to towards this important goal. 1. Start a couple’s devotion – Spouses who practice and experience their faith at home...
There Comes a Time
Appointments are set, and kept. Set and broken. Rescheduled and juggled to the whim and fancy of the unmindful and inconvenienced. However, appointments within the realm of the supernatural are the pre-ordained celebrations of the majesty of God’s power. For every blessing in your life, there is an appointment waiting. Ecclesiastes 9:11 (Solomon writes, ) I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor...
Care-Pack Outreaches
I have been leading my church over the last year in a new outreach direction termed, “Servant Evangelismâ€, where we endeavor to bless our communities with the love of Christ without asking anything in return. Often, churches are perceived as constantly having their hand out asking for things, and we want to turn that perception upside down. Jesus said the second-greatest commandment is that you love your neighbor as yourself…...
Tell Me, Did You See Me?
Did you see Me in the eyes of the overweight girl you disdained today with words of scorn causing pain? Tell Me, did you see Me? Did you see Me in the chains stretching from the young man’s ears to his nose? Tell Me, did you see Me? Did you see Me in the hair colored neon orange on the young lady you passed? Tell Me, did you see Me? Did you see Me in the eyes of the young man in the army jacket pushing a broom down the school...
Prove Me Now
The very thought of stealing from God brings a shudder to the heart of any Apostolic. It is our deepest desire, rather, to bless Him… but certainly not steal from Him! Yet in the Old Testament, God chastised the the Jews through His prophet Malachi for robbing God (Malachi 3:8). “How have we robbed you?” the people asked. God’s reply was that the people were robbing Him by not giving to Him their tithes and...