RELATIONSHIPS
Singleness – not spoken about enough but for many people a struggle or challenge and for others something to celebrate
i kissed dating: the parts – some thoughts about dating
40 Tips to help you improve your Marriage – some big, some small and all just ideas that may or may not work for you
How to save a marriage [before you need to] – i asked some married friends to share some ideas on what makes marriage work…
How to love your husband/wife better – the parts – a series looking at some different ways you can love your person well
rowing the mance
i find loving my wife very easy. and i’m not just talking about the flutter flutter feeling “ooh i luv my wife” but love in action i would like to imagine everyone loves their wife [...]
rock beats scissors and tag-team takes out tagalong every single time
so recently my wife - the beautiful Val (because clearly) – was on a camp where we had been asked to speak (actually first time the invitation came to us as a couple) and someone [...]
the wages of God, are you!
when Jesus was asked what is the greatest commandment in the jewish law He responded with in summary, “Love God love people” – ha, as i was typing that i accidentally typo’d “love gold” and [...]
married? you got to fight.
i was sitting in the back of the church meeting yesterday when a couple (who have been married for less than three years) arrived and she came and sat in front of me and he [...]
EW: Give up on Keeping up!
another excerpt from Erwin McManus 'an unSTOPPABLE force' - just buy it already! 'And though i'm advocating our need to become a movement, I would like to encourage you to give up on keeping up.' [...]
judge not lest.
so i have decided to try and be less judging of people this year - i think a couple of times this last year it hit me how judgemental i have become - i don't [...]
love your wife… and get caught!
i remember some kids song that went 'love your neighbour as you love yourself, oh-oh love your neighbour, but don't get caught' and thinking as i write that, i may very well have added the [...]
HOW BIG ARE YOUR god?
I finished reading 'Mister God, this is Anna', on the weekend and REALLY enjoyed it a lot. Has a tendency to get a bit new age all-roads-leads-to-God in some of its murmurings but part from [...]
free, free, i'm free…
arr, so last nite of crew before baptist summer camp 1 (1000ish young people) arrive and my friend Craig Fincham leads a devotion/crew-building moment and confesses some stuff to the team and God who has [...]
the power of a letter
my wife, the Beautiful Val often calls me ‘B’ it is weird cos it is just a letter (the letter ‘b’) – but i really like it when she does. “i love you, b” “my [...]
the shiny colour and disease that is red
i have a friend called Roy (or Conrad Roy) he is one of the new students who was in our church enGAGE this year and is now part of our leadership team for next year [...]
the biggerest loser
So this last week we played Settlers (card/board game similar to but better than Risk for the uninitiated) 3 times and i didn’t win any of the games... two of them were extremely frustrating cos [...]