Tag: wisdom
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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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Good Influences
Recently I asked the women at the jail to think of two or three names of people who had been a good influence on them. You can try it too. It might be a family member, or a teacher from your school days, or neighbors, like the old couple who lived next door to my…
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Discretion Advised
I have often wondered whether Old Testament Joseph meant to brag in telling his dreams to his family. He was quite young, maybe 15 or 16 at the time. At that age did he have any experience with dream analysis? Maybe he really had no idea how his dreams would come across to his parents…
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How High Can You Climb?
Just as with climbing a jungle gym on the playground, with adult ladders of success, there are risks. You could lose. You could have some success and then fall. The one that bugs me the most is the risk of my endeavors proving to be a waste of time.
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Mammas Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up…
There are some things we don’t want our kids to be when they grow up, but we do want them to grow up. So why is it so painful?
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Parenting Basics: Requiring First-Time Obedience
If you’ve ever wondered why almost all parenting guides from pamphlets to tomes list “Consistency” as one of the keys to parenting, this is it. Because if I want my children to obey me quickly when it matters, I must require that they obey me when it, seemingly, doesn’t matter.
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Personality Types — Part 2
Understanding different personality types can help us get along with people. This can also help our evangelism efforts much like Paul’s understanding of cultural differences helped his. After all, different people are motivated (as well as de-motivated) by different things. Understanding personality types can help a Christian to more effectively pique another person’s interest in…
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Lost In Translation
Ever since Babel, language has been a confusing thing. And it isn’t just foreign languages that cause problems. Sometimes we can even be confused by our own language!
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