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Fighting Fair Builds Healthy Marriages

Posted on May 13, 2014February 8, 2018 by Michael Rose

Love may be blind, but Marriage is an eye opener! A classic one-liner but so true – Marriage can be tough! Marriage is a wonderful medium for love to grow richer and deeper as it is tested in the realities of the day to day of life. But in the day to day of...

November 13, 2011
Being More or Doing More?

The wrestle with the dichotomy of being and doing comes from the emptiness that often accompanies doing religious things out of religious obligation. The idea that we have to do things for God for love, acceptance, duty, forgiveness. For many Christians this thinking sets us up for spiritual burnout. Many pastors burn out because they...
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June 4, 2020
Healthy Community is where we learn to be Community

The old joke says ‘Church would be awesome if it weren’t for the people’ and amidst a hearty chuckle, we sense a twinge of truth. Community is made of up human beings just like you and me - doing the best we can with what we have. They are places where imperfect people, those of...
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August 12, 2014
Power of Wonder – Secret to Deep Faith

An often overlooked aspect of faith is wonder. When we talk about wonder we are thinking specifically about three postures; standing in disbelief, standing in the question itself and standing in awe or amazement of something. Wonder positions us to be open spiritually - this doesn’t mean non-discerning but an openness to learn, to...
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