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The Secret to Healing Division in a Church, Community, or Family

March 9, 2015 by JP 11 Comments

Division is a cancer in a community, church, or family. And you need to know exactly how to stop it. — I was only a child. My family was fighting as every family does. Charged words were yelled. Doors slammed. Walls, both physical and unseen, went up in a family that had been united. How many of us have experienced this same crushing effect in our […]

Filed Under: Asking forgiveness, Conflict Resolution, Discipleship, Featured, Social Issues

Freaky Friday: Fall in Love With Your Spouse After — Not Before — You’re Married

February 20, 2015 by JP 4 Comments

The lights dim. The honeymoon romance is hot. Jimmy is a Christian stud, one in a million guy. Jenny is gorgeous, every hair perfectly in place, a smile always on her face, the kind of girl every guy wants. Everyone sighs. Why can’t we all have love like this? This is how it was meant […]

Filed Under: Conflict Resolution, Dating, Discipleship, Featured, Marriage

Why You Have to Be Gangsta to Make People Respect Your Words

February 19, 2015 by JP Leave a Comment

Most people don’t care what you have to say. They hear advice all day, and your words are just chirping in the background of a world they’ve long tuned out. That’s why you need to do something bold, something unpredictable to get their attention. In the Godfather: Part 2, young Vito Corleone, played by Robert Dinero, shuffles […]

Filed Under: Communication, Conflict Resolution, Discipleship, Featured

How Bullying Can Save Your Marriage

November 1, 2014 by JP Leave a Comment

Nobody likes a bully. Not in a casual fling. Not in a friendship. Not in a budding romantic relationship. Not in an illicit I-don’t-know-what-that-was-but-I-hope-it-never-happens-again-ship. And certainly not in a marriage. Unfortunately, bullying tactics are just so darn effective. Psychologically, they work at manipulating another person to push him or her down and get one’s own way. Of course, they’re also destructive and damaging […]

Filed Under: Conflict Resolution, Featured, Marriage Tagged With: bullying, marriage bully

The Times You Should Shut Up and Not Say Anything

October 3, 2014 by JP Leave a Comment

Part of Christian maturity is knowing when to shut your mouth and walk away. A lot of it. Whole beatitudes are lined up along the back wall of your mind like homecoming dance outcasts in a high school gym, all hoping you won’t make a fool of yourself again this time. Lilies in a field somewhere in your imagination […]

Filed Under: Conflict Resolution, Discipleship, Featured

The Art of Telling Someone Off in Christianese

May 22, 2014 by JP Leave a Comment

Christians need help with confrontations. Let’s face it. There’s a lot of meanness out there. Most of the time we just sit and take it. Others, we walk away and complain to our friends. Rarely do we stand up and respectfully, firmly put someone in their place. But there are ways to avoid an emotional […]

Filed Under: Conflict Resolution, Featured Tagged With: Christianese, confrontation, dealing with conflicts, telling someone off

How to Ask Forgiveness and Still Come Out on Top

April 24, 2014 by JP 1 Comment

Oh, did I lie about you behind your back? Sorry ’bout that. Slander your family name? Curse your children’s lineage? My bad. Expose your insecurities? Ridicule your flaws? Mock your existence? Sorry you took that the wrong way. Lighten up. Didn’t mean it. Just kidding. I’m sorry you got your feelings hurt. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, SORRY. […]

Filed Under: Asking forgiveness, Conflict Resolution, Discipleship, Featured Tagged With: ask forgiveness, cats, dogs, how to ask forgiveness, sorry, The Fools

How to Turn Your Spouse From a Fire-Breathing, Evil Monster Into a Regular Person

April 16, 2014 by JP 1 Comment

I’m sure we’ve all seen the cliche. A couple screaming at each other — red-faced and angry, insults hurled in every direction, and one turns into a fire-breathing, evil monster and consumes the other. Or wait. A peaceful meal around the table, chatting over half sandwiches and pleasantries, a thinly-veiled accusation is suggested along with grey […]

Filed Under: Asking forgiveness, Conflict Resolution, Discipleship, Featured, Marriage Tagged With: ask forgiveness, conflict resolution, evil monsters, relationship advice, The Fools

If I Talked to My Wife Like the Church Liturgy Talks to God

February 17, 2014 by JP 14 Comments

Me: Enter the family room with excitement and the living room with thanks! Wife: Ok… Me: Most beautiful and ever loving wife, we are gathered here today to have a conversation. In this conversation our hearts will be opened and all our communications known, and from each other no secrets hid. Hear the thoughts of […]

Filed Under: Conflict Resolution, Featured, Funny, Marriage Tagged With: church liturgy, conversation with my wife, high church, high church vs. low church, The Fools, traditional church services

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