Numbers 12 – I Want to Be More Like Moses
I want to be like Moses. It’s not that I want to walk around with a big stick and a glowing face, calling down plagues and parting large bodies of…
September 26, 2018 · 2 min read
Numbers 11 – Lighten Up!
I hate to admit it, but I’ve become a complainer…at least more than I used to be. I’m not sure what happened. I used to be more up-beat, more…
September 19, 2018 · 2 min read
Things You Need to Know Before You Get Married…or Divorced
“I wish I had known this before I got married.” I hear this a lot as a counselor. Sometimes it’s said in jest, and sometimes it’s said in…
September 12, 2018 · 5 min read
Numbers 10 – Traveling Details
I’ve mentioned before that I’m not a detailed person. I’m a big picture person. I have great ideas, but when I look at all the details of making…
September 11, 2018 · 2 min read
Numbers 9 – Unquestioning Obedience
When I was a child, “because I said so” never felt like a good reason to comply. That’s because there’s something in us that resists being told what…
September 5, 2018 · 2 min read
The Steps to a Great Marriage
The steps to a great marriage. You see a lot of titles like this if you spend any time on social media. Everyone is giving you three steps to this…
August 31, 2018 · 4 min read
Numbers 7-8 – Are You An Indian-Getter?
Maybe you’ve heard someone use the term “Indian Giver.” Though not politically correct, the title refers to someone who gives something away only to…
August 28, 2018 · 2 min read
Numbers 6 – Do You Vow?
Numbers chapter 6 talks about a Nazarite vow. This is a vow in which a person separates themselves to God by separating themselves from certain…
August 22, 2018 · 2 min read
How To Stay Together When Others Are Coming Apart
As a Teaching and Counseling Pastor, I come across marriages of all shapes, sizes, ages, and stages. There are those in the very beginning of their…
August 5, 2018 · 4 min read
How the Heart of a Marriage Survives a Near Fatal Heart Surgery
In the following guest post by Debbie Latour, you will hear how a married couple faced a dangerous heart surgery and came out stronger in love, life…
July 26, 2018 · 7 min read
Numbers 5 – The “I” Beams of a Strong Life
If you were trying to build a team (a sports team, a business team, a class, or even a family,) what would you most want to emphasize and engrain in…
July 12, 2018 · 2 min read
Numbers 1-4 – God is in the Details
Detail people. We all know them. They are the people who think in terms of who, what, when, and how. They need to dot every I and cross every T. They…
June 24, 2018 · 2 min read
How To Be A Better Person
If you want to know how to be a better spouse and have a better marriage, it starts with learning how to be a better person. Right now, my spouse is…
June 21, 2018 · 6 min read
Leviticus 27 – A Final Word from Leviticus
Ever had a question you wanted to ask, but didn’t think it would be appropriate? “When is your baby due?” “Are you ill, because you don’t look so…
June 19, 2018 · 2 min read
Leviticus 26 – The American Dream vs God’s Dream
The American Dream…peace, prosperity, protection, and prominence. These are the things we long and strive for. We’re told that, because we live in…
June 19, 2018 · 2 min read
I Learned 3 Simple Marriage Rules From a Preschooler
Last weekend, I learned three simple marriage rules from a preschooler when I picked up my four-year-old granddaughter for a much needed date. It was…
June 14, 2018 · 3 min read
How Parenting Can Improve Partnering
In my last post (How Partnering Can Improve Parenting,) we looked at how improving your marriage could improve your parenting. It stressed the…
June 7, 2018 · 3 min read
Leviticus 25 – Rest and Freedom
We live in a society that moves at a frantic pace. We seek to get as much as we can, as quickly as we can. We use every minute of every day, feeling…
June 3, 2018 · 2 min read
Leviticus 23-24 – Familiarity and Reverence
There’s an old saying… “Familiarity breeds contempt.” This can be true in our relationship with God, but the contempt looks more like casualness. Our…
June 3, 2018 · 2 min read
How Partnering Can Improve Parenting
We don’t often think of how parenting can improve partnering. Usually, we think of just the opposite…how parenting makes partnering harder. We…
May 25, 2018 · 4 min read
Leviticus 20-22 – You Can’t Skim Over Holiness
Holiness. It sounds so unattainable…kind of like perfection. Perhaps I would prefer to think of holiness as unattainable perfection. That way, I can…
May 20, 2018 · 2 min read
3 Questions for an Ailing Marriage
I’ve discovered three questions you can use to diagnose an ailing marriage. I would like to tell you I discovered these questions while completing my…
May 15, 2018 · 4 min read
Leviticus 18-19 – Moving In
When the children of Israel moved into the Land of Canaan, they had left behind an old way of life in Egypt, and had been brought to another godless…
April 29, 2018 · 2 min read
Leviticus 15-17 – Our 3 Greatest Needs
It can be challenging to consistently pull applicable truths from the chapters of Leviticus. I’m sure this is more of a reflection on me than on…
April 24, 2018 · 2 min read