Setting Boundaries with Outlaws!
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Loving and leading faithfully in the relationships closest to you.
English Would Be Much Easier If We Stopped Making Up Words Like “Fought”
English claims to have grammatical rules. The evidence suggests otherwise. From “fought” and “went” to “mice,” “meese,” and the newly recognized plural “spice,” it may finally be time to fix English.
When Family Helps Raise Your Children
Children can benefit enormously from trustworthy adults beyond their parents. The challenge is learning how parents, aunts, uncles, grandparents, and other family members can steward their influence without confusing responsibility, competing for authority, or weakening the relationships they hope to strengthen.
Setting Boundaries with In-Laws
Marriage establishes a new household without ending our responsibility to love and honor our parents. Healthy family boundaries help couples make decisions together, care for parents faithfully, communicate truth with love, and protect the marriage without turning independence into distance.
Covenant Love Book
Covenant Love—A Christian Marriage Mentorship Manual The Book. This book comes in two versions: 1. The Mentorees’s version, for the couple being mentored, (or to read…
Learning to Tell the Whole Truth When Part of the Truth Favors You
We can tell the truth and still fail to tell the whole truth—especially when the missing part makes us look worse. Whole-Truth Stewardship gives us a biblical, practical system for examining our stories, corroborating reality, owning what belongs to us, and becoming people who are safe for truth.
Watch What Happens to the Truth
Every difficult conversation contains more than the words being spoken. Content tells us what people are saying; Condition helps us notice what is happening in and between them while they say it. Drawing from Scripture, leadership research, and the Content/Condition discipline found in Crucial Conversations, this article teaches leaders and listeners to hear the facts, watch the human dynamics, resist premature verdicts, and notice what happens when uncomfortable truth enters the conversation.
When the Problem Becomes the Pattern
Many couples believe they are repeatedly fighting about money, children, work, sex, or household responsibilities when the deeper problem is the pattern that develops around those disagreements. Decades of couple research reveal how blame, demand, withdrawal, emotional reactivity, and avoidance can become self-reinforcing cycles—and how husband and wife can learn a healthier way through conflict.
Your Wife Is Not the Enemy
The words we speak to our wives help create the relational climate of our marriages. A husband cannot control his wife's character, but he is responsible for what he contributes to their relationship. Speak grace. Build up. Nourish and cherish. Your wife is not the enemy. She is your bride.
The Stewardship of Words
God has entrusted us with words, and Scripture gives those words a purpose. They are to tell the truth, give grace, build people up, restore relationships, protect reputations, communicate gratitude, and express love. The Stewardship of Words explores how husbands and wives, parents and children, friends, and leaders can learn to love one another through what they say—and what they refuse to say.