Turns of Life
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, May 1st 2017 Share the goods! In life, we must learn to make sure that when we are riding a motorcycle in tandem that we lean in the same direction when making turns. Otherwise, we will be thrown off balance. On the straight turns of life (money in the bank, health going well, no job stress), it is easy to ride in the same direction. It is when you have to make the turns that you need cooperation with one another! You have to lean in the same direction at the same time, or you are going to tip over. The reason why Christians are divorcing at record numbers is that they fail to make the turns together. See, it is easy to go through life making the straight drives, but it is the turns in life that require working together. When someone loses a job, when someone gets sick, when they have a child who is acting in a wayward manner, it is then that we must learn to lean in the same direction!!! If a relationship falls apart, it will fall apart in the turns. Very few people have been trained to lean in the turns. It is a couple’s ability to lean in the same direction that will determine whether that relationship flourishes or disintegrates. The turns in life require team work. Click To Tweet MORE TOPICS addiction authority biblical characters career challenges children communication convictions depression discernment emotions failure faith family fear finances forgiveness grace healing identity leadership love marriage men parenting personal development pornography priorities process...
Let Me See What’s Inside
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, October 10th 2016 Share the goods! Suppose you go to the refrigerator, and you are looking for something to eat late at night, let’s say after a picnic or barbecue. You are really hungry, but when you go to the kitchen and open the refrigerator, you see all the barbecued food wrapped in aluminum foil. You might become discouraged because you may or may not feel like opening all of the foil. But let’s say the food is wrapped in saran wrap and you can see the contents. Well, it is much easier to make a decision now because you can see what is inside the saran wrap. There are a lot of men who have their hearts wrapped up in aluminum foil and their wives do not know what is inside. What your wife wants from you is your heart wrapped in saran wrapping so that she can know the contents. Transparency is key in relationships. Click To Tweet MORE TOPICS addiction authority biblical characters career challenges children communication convictions depression discernment emotions failure faith family fear finances forgiveness grace healing identity leadership love marriage men parenting personal development pornography priorities process purpose relationships respect restoration righteousness sex sin success temptation trials women Help us continue helping others! DONATE TODAY Share the goods! Monday, October 10th 2016 RELATED VERSES 1 Samuel 16:7 (NKJV) But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at his physical stature, because I have refused him. For the Lord does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward...
Who’s The Best
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, October 3rd 2016 Share the goods! During the 2005 football season, Keyshawn Johnson, who was then a wide receiver for the Dallas Cowboys made a statement. He stated that he was a better receiver than Michael Irving because he played a more all-around game. What he meant was that he was involved on every play, blocking and preventing tackles, and not just being a pass catcher!! This caught the attention of many football fans. First of all Michael Irvin has 3 Super Bowl rings. Besides that, most people feel outright that Michael Irvin was a better receiver. But one point that Keyshawn had in his favor was that in his career he made a choice to do the intangible things that didn’t show up on any stat sheets or get noticed by the fans and the rest of the world. In a strange way, this is something that every man has to deal with in his own way. How will you feel at the end of your life? Click To Tweet To be a “Keyshawn Johnson man, in a Michael Irvin world” what does that mean? It may mean that as a father he is blocking for his children’s education by helping them with their homework when he comes home at night even though he is tired after a long day in the office. Or he may be blocking for the longevity of his marriage by getting up in the middle of the night for his children so that his wife can get some sleep. Suppose you don’t make the Hall...
Busy Signal
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, September 19th 2016 Share the goods! If you are like me, you hate to be trapped in a sea of voice mail automation when you want to talk to a person live to address an issue. Before the days of caller ID, do you remember what it felt like to call a number and get a busy signal? This pulsating tone would fill your ears and it always seemed like it was an insult or a form of rejection. You felt rejected because someone was not waiting by the phone for your call. In fact, in the early days some businesses realized that busy signals drove customers away, so what they would do was continually remind the callers that they were on “hold” and they would be enthusiastically answered in a moment or two. Some have even switched over to bland melodies by Muzak. But no matter how you look at it, there is somebody on the other line who is too busy to talk to you. It takes a dedicated parent to cancel golf, cocktail parties and trips to the city to spend time in ordinary talk with their children. Click To Tweet This is the same with many children in the homes of absentee fathers. The children frequently hear busy signals. In fact, many of the busy signals come in the form of “Don’t bother me” or “I’m tied up.” For many men, leisure appointments, deadlines, money, and other objects of adult interests seem to be more important than any of the child’s interest. So often the fathers will...
Sculpture’s Mindset
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, September 12th 2016 Share the goods! There is a legend of a medieval sidewalk superintendent who asked three stone masons on a construction project what they were doing. The first said he was laying bricks. The second described his work as that of building a wall. But it was a third laborer who demonstrated genuine esteem for his work when he said, “I am raising a great cathedral.” Raising children is a God-given responsibility. Click To Tweet Pose those same questions to two fathers concerning their role in the family, and you are liable to get the same contrast. The first man may say, “I am supporting a family,” but the second may see things differently and say, “I am raising children.” The former looks at his job as putting food on the table, but the latter sees people from God’s perspective in that he is shaping lives. To shape lives, suggests that the sculptor is at work cutting and chipping, chiseling out of raw material a beautiful object of art. MORE TOPICS addiction authority biblical characters career challenges children communication convictions depression discernment emotions failure faith family fear finances forgiveness grace healing identity leadership love marriage men parenting personal development pornography priorities process purpose relationships respect restoration righteousness sex sin success temptation trials women Help us continue helping others! DONATE TODAY Share the goods! Monday, September 12th 2016 RELATED VERSES Proverbs 22:6 (NKJV) Train up a child in the way he should go, And when he is old he will not depart from it. Matthew 3:17 (NKJV) And suddenly a...
Composite Mates
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, August 8th 2016 Share the goods! It is very clear that when men engage in porn, they start to create a composite, physical Bambi. What does that mean? Simply put, every time that man views a beautiful or sexy image, that image is stored in his mind and then added to this composite Bambi. So she has the legs of Stella, the breasts of Sue, and the legs of Becky. This is so dangerous because the man is, in essence, asking his wife to compete with this composite woman. Obviously, his wife cannot keep up with this image! Be fair to your spouse! Click To Tweet On the flipside, what people do not discuss is that women can engage, I believe, in emotional porn! What does this mean? Simply put, you will have women who want their men to have the Scriptural knowledge of a pastor and the type of adoration their fathers used to give them. They want their husbands to have the communication skills of Larry King. The charm of Bill Clinton. The money of Bill Gates. What these women are doing is asking their husbands to compete emotionally with this composite, emotional Bambi! Clearly, that man cannot keep up with this man who lives in his woman’s dreams because this composite man always listens to her, has nothing but time, never has an opinion that challenges hers, and believes everything that she says is right! MORE TOPICS addiction authority biblical characters career challenges children communication convictions depression discernment emotions failure faith family fear finances forgiveness grace healing identity...
Critical Spirit
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, February 27th 2017 Share the goods! Critical spirits can be very devastating. Think about Wimbledon. The tennis championships in England where there is a judge who sits on an elevated chair on the side between the two competitors. He has earned the right to be a judge because he has earned the reputation of being fair-minded in his judgments, so when the ball goes out of bounds the judge yells “FAULT!” The person with a critical spirit also sits on a high, elevated seat even though they have not earned the reputation of being fair-minded and they have not been invited. They are not welcomed but they just yell “FAULT!” all day despite the fact that their verdict is not appreciated nor accurate. In a marriage, the husband or wife must make sure that they do not position themselves in an elevated chair of judging their spouse all day long yelling “FAULT!”, “FAULT!”, “FAULT!”. Have we allowed ourselves to have a cynical mindset? Click To Tweet MORE TOPICS addiction authority biblical characters career challenges children communication convictions depression discernment emotions failure faith family fear finances forgiveness grace healing identity leadership love marriage men parenting personal development pornography priorities process purpose relationships respect restoration righteousness sex sin success temptation trials women Help us continue helping others! DONATE TODAY Share the goods! Monday, February 27th 2017 RELATED VERSES Proverbs 19:13 (NKJV) A foolish son is the ruin of his father, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping. Ephesians 4:14-16 (NKJV) we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro...
Put Your Mask on First
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, March 14th 2016 Share the goods! When the emergency instructions are given before your flight takes off, the flight attendants tell you to put on your own mask first. And this message is sometimes reiterated for mothers with small children or people traveling with the elderly. Even though these instructions seem counter-intuitive, the fact of the matter is that if you help yourself first you’ll then be able to help others. As Christians we tend to judge others, but the bible tells us not to judge others; or we will be judged! We should also remove the log from our own eye before we try to remove the speck from our brother's. Click To Tweet So just as we’re told on the plane to put on our own mask first we should also remove the log from our own eye first before we try to remove the speck from our brother’s. The reason why folks aren’t experiencing more of God’s grace is because He’s looking at the standard that we’re applying to others and He is applying it to us. What goes around comes around. MORE TOPICS addiction authority biblical characters career challenges children communication convictions depression discernment emotions failure faith family fear finances forgiveness grace healing identity leadership love marriage men parenting personal development pornography priorities process purpose relationships respect restoration righteousness sex sin success temptation trials women Help us continue helping others! DONATE TODAY Share the goods! Monday, March 14th 2016 RELATED VERSES Matthew 7:1-5 (NKJV) Judge not, that you be not judged. For with what judgment you judge,...
Polished Gemstone
Family Leadership Men Personal Development Relationships Women Monday, February 29th 2016 Share the goods! An unpolished gemstone looks no different from an ordinary piece of gravel. To polish it, you need three things: a rock tumbler, some abrasive grit, and at least one other stone. A rock tumbler is little more than a jar lying on its side atop a series of rollers. Inside the jar, you place some abrasive grit, the unpolished gemstone and at least one other stone . When the tumbler begins to roll, the rocks will slowly rise up the wall of the jar and then drop, crashing into one another over and over again. Each time they collide, the grit removes a tiny bit of the surface material on top of the gemstone. Each time they collide the stones become smoother and smoother but it’s a very slow process. What happens if you forget the abrasive grit? The stones will still collide, but without an abrasive grit, there is nothing to smooth the stones. They’ll continue to crash into each other and perhaps even chip or damage each other. However, the finished product will look no smoother than it did when you began. It’s not exactly pleasant to be the other rock in somebody else’s tumbler... Click To Tweet Think about it. Stone is struck thousands of time, but still isn’t polish. And you know what happens if you forget another stone? Absolutely nothing. The lone rock will tumble, but with nothing to strike against, it simply rises and falls. There will still be some abrasion as the stone bounces against the side of...
Green Pastures
Psalm 23:1-3 NKJV reads: “The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me to lie down in green pastures; He leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul; He leads me in the path of righteousness for His name’s sake.
Fine Dining
Suppose you haven’t eaten all day, you’re super hungry. You select the best restaurant in town and then ask the waiter for the finest steak on the menu.