Tag: relationships
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Toxic Parenting?
When we apply terms like abuse, dysfunctional, bullying, and toxic to normal imperfect human behavior, we diminish the value of the terms, making it harder to confront real and serious cases of abuse, bullying, and suchlike.
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Internet Hiatus
I’m sure I don’t have to tell you that, as useful as the internet can be, too much screen time is a problem. We all know it. But it’s a hard habit to break.
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It Takes One To Know One
You probably know the old saying, “it takes one to know one,” but why is it so much easier to see any given fault in someone else than it is to see it in ourselves? Could it be that God brought Israel face to face with a picture of their own unrighteousness magnified so that…
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Government Solves Problem Of Loneliness!
In 2024 there are MANY factors contributing to an increased sense of isolation for a growing number of people. The concern has become great enough in Japan that they are enacting laws requiring local governments to create resources for those who are struggling. I hope it works. But most of us realize that government solutions…
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Women Can Be Jerks Too
What we women in modern times have done through feminism is sort of collectively rage against all of the mistreatment of women throughout history. And even if our husbands are basically good fellas and have never laid a violent hand on us, we have now been empowered by the cultural trend to lash out over…
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Personality Types — Part 1
We each long to feel that someone understands us, but friendship is a two-way street. Proverbs 18:24 says, “A man who has friends must himself be friendly.” Perhaps we could also say that a person who wants to be understood by others must seek to understand others.
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