Show Is Better Than Tell The Word The Holy Spirit teaches the word both by revelation and experience. The revelation can be instant and direct, without being transmitted by any formal “teaching.” We say, “Oh, I see.” The Spirit then uses seen and temporal experiences to work that revelation into us. The revelation gets established…
Haunted By Your Past by Mel Dixon When you start dating someone new, it’s inevitably difficult to know how much of yourself to give, and when. This is particularly true when it comes to telling them about your past. As the relationship progresses, it’s natural that you’ll want to learn more about each other –…
By Dick Purnell Dr. Henry Brandt, in the Collegiate Challenge magazine, said that there is a syndrome, a pattern, when couples come to him. They say, “At first, sex was exciting. Then I started feeling funny about myself, and then I started feeling funny about my partner. We argued and fought and finally we broke…
Malissa Allen To close the door on the thought of ever loving again is very easy to do. What we do not realize is we are also closing the door to allow ourselves happiness in all areas of our lives. We are allowing ourselves to trust no longer that God has a plan for us…
There was a time in my life that it took every ounce of me to force myself out of my bed. Had I not had two small children to rely on me for their every need, I can honestly say I am not sure if I would be here today. I live battling depression every…
By Malissa Allen There are so many dates and moments in life that our brain store that we will never forget. These moments for some reason burn into our being like branding irons. I remember when I got my first job, when I graduated High School, college and got married. I remember turning 20, 30,…
You’ve probably heard of poisonous, unhealthy or a toxic relationship. Maybe you understood what unhealthy meant but wondered about poisonous or toxic. A Toxic Relationship means that you’ve had to endure lots of pain and sacrifice. It’s a relationship that can actually threaten your health and well-being. Sadly, women find themselves in these types of…
A Long Distance Relationship is tricky, there’s no denying it, but that isn’t to say you shouldn’t enter into one. If you fall in love with someone who lives far away or your long term partner reveals that they need to move to the other side of the world for a while, don’t despair. Instead,…
One of the primary effects of our culture’s obsession with time has been to make us quantity-oriented instead of quality-oriented. Therefore, it has become necessary for us to measure everything. We have become obsessed with amounts, sizes, numbers, and distances. And we only think of amount, sizes and distances in comparative terms. Now, we have…
Living In The Past Recently, I was sitting around having a major pity party concerning “wudda, shoulda, cuddas and I had to pull to the side of the road of life and spend so time meditating. I had lost my focus completely. My reason for being! And even though many of my writings are about…
