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03.13.2025 – Better Living – 8 Comments on 7 Questions To Improve Your Marriage 7 Questions To Improve Your Marriage My wife Karen is a therapist who sees a lot of couples whose relationship is in trouble. They are struggling and …
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02.27.2025 – Culture and Faith Am I a Cultural Christian? One of the questions I’ve wrestled with for much of my life is “What is a Christian?” America is known as a “Chri…
02.20.2025 – Leadership How Do I Know When to Take Action? I’m weird – I spend a lot of time reflecting, but I also tend to make quick decisions. I find that God often spea…
Judge people by their fruit, not their words Better Living Just back from 11 days in Romania and Spain. We coached 39 World Racers and taught 20 students at a leadership school. Along the way, we’ve helped them get a…
Networking to help your kingdom dream Kingdom Dreams A group of us led a Kingdom Dreams workshop in Atlanta this past weekend. Afterwards we went to Stone Mountain and sang songs and talked (that’s Lilly and Ca…
You’re never too old to have a happy childhood Better Living My dad’s best friend when he lived in Long Beach was Jim Baker. Like my dad, Jim was a pathologist. He did serious work diagnosing people’s illnesses. But…