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3 Things That Have Gone Wrong with This Year’s Passion Play
You plan for months. You meet regularly with key leaders. You hold marathon rehearsals with your cast, choir, orchestra, and crew for weeks. And still, things happen that you don’t anticipate. Here are three highlights of this year’s Passion Play … Continue reading
When to Marinate This Thanksgiving
Pale, flabby, and slimy—that’s what raw chicken is. And the piece of fowl staring at me through a plastic bag on my kitchen counter was no exception. A past “Cooking Lesson with New Wife” involved learning to marinate—which, believe it … Continue reading
Real Friends are Dependable
Forget social networking! How many real friends do you have? Sometimes it’s the fiery trials that reveal the real person. Anybody can handle life well when circumstances are going well and things are happening the way you want them to … Continue reading
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A Real Friend is Loyal
Have you even been betrayed by someone? Has a person you know ever gone behind your back and brought a degree of destruction or hardship to your life? This is especially difficult if that person is someone you thought was … Continue reading
A Real Friend Speaks the Truth…In Love
I’m sure that everyone would agree that a Real Friend will communicate honestly and faithfully to his/her friends. After all, communication is part of the foundation upon which a good friendship is based. Since we are made in the image … Continue reading
Obedience to God: The Foundation for Godly Friendships
“The proof is in the pudding.” That’s a simple phrase that captures the truth of genuineness of a person as well as the way a person conducts their life and the choices that person actually makes. The proof (the deciding … Continue reading
A Real Friend Washes Dirty Feet
One of the ways to determine the sincerity of a person is to ask this question: What are you willing to sacrifice in order to achieve your goal? This could apply many areas in a person’s life. This could be … Continue reading
What Does a Real Friend Look Like?
In order to determine how many “Real Friends” you have, you really need to ask another very important question: What does a “Real Friend” look like? I’m not talking about if a guy is ‘good looking’ or if a girl … Continue reading
How I’ve Been Blessed by ‘Living Life Together’
This year’s theme has been my favorite annual theme – and I have been around for 8 of them. The primary reason I have enjoyed this theme is that it has really resulted in great blessing. Here are just a … Continue reading →