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Communication Styles

Get Through This Year’s Football Season With Your Spouse

It’s that time of year again — changing leaves and cooler temperatures. Football season is here. Does your spouse feel like a football widow?

Dealing With Your Differences: Do Your Part

We will all blow it sometimes. But if you really strive to limit your reckless words, you will create a climate that fosters openness and closeness in your marriage.

Teaching Kids the Weight of Words

Can the power of words be controlled? Can we teach our kids to train their tongues (and their typing!) so that their words are a force for good? Here are a few ways to help them discipline their speech.

Overcome Your Tech-Phobia

Parents and guardians must get to know online technology if they’re going to help protect children from the dangers.

The Upside of Nagging

Given the difference in married and single men’s health outcomes, it appears — not surprisingly — that wives are more powerful in changing grown men’s behavior than even their own mothers.

Words Are Powerful

Celebrate personal moments in a powerful way that can breathe life into a young person’s heart and future!

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Getting Your Thoughts Back on Course

Tara, a young lady at the church I was working for at the time, approached me one day after church and asked to speak with me. “You’ve got to help me. I know in my heart that my attitude is wrong, but—I can’t help it. It’s how I feel. My marriage is killing me. It’s …

Two Relational Styles: Holding and Tossing

How control and responsibility affect the relationship between you and your teen.

Two More Relational Styles: Grabbing and Folding

How control and responsibility affect the relationship between you and your teen.

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The Ruts in Your Mind

When you and your spouse disagree, or get hurt, or become frustrated, or reach an impasse, the easiest thing to do is what you have always done!

Far Horizons of Forgiveness

Our life has been shaped in part by people, groups and ideologies which we will never see or understand.

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Husband Too Busy for Family

How can I get my husband to make our family a priority in his busy schedule?

A man and a woman lean into one another.

It’s About TIME: Building the CORE of Your Marriage

Busyness is the enemy of marriage. Restoring intimacy to marriage requires an intentional effort to spend time communicating openly and empathically with one another.

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Does the Honeymoon Have to End?

Marriage is never perfect, but, as we try to love the other without expecting anything in return, the joys of the honeymoon stay with us still.

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My Attitude Toward My Spouse

In marriage, it’s important to check our attitudes and discern whether our thinking is based on truth or misperception.

Communicating About Your Purpose Effectively

Has God shown you your God-given purpose? Do you want to communicate your vision to others effectively for emotional, financial, spiritual or physical support? No doubt, understanding how God created different people’s personalities is critical to communicate your ideas effectively.

Fun Online Communication With Grandkids

Snail mail is a thing of the past. If you want to keep long-distance communication with your grandkids alive, think about learning the basics of online chat.

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Effective Communication With Your Teen

Allow your teen’s feelings to touch you, and then help him see that you truly understand his feelings.

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Basics of Love and Respect

Women need to feel loved, and men need to feel respected.

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You’re Stepping on My Air Hose!

When the husband sees the spirit of his wife deflate, he should realize he’s stepping on her air hose and get off it.