The following comments were made during a small group meeting I attended with a number of godly men. They are typical of the comments Christian men everywhere are making:

"I finally have peace in my career. I want to do more for Him."

"I just turned 40. I've been in the  read more >

Assisted Living is a type of senior housing that allows elderly residents to lead more active, independent lives than they can find in traditional nursing homes.

Assisted living communities are an intermediate step between fully independent living, where a resident does not require any assistance with the activities of daily living, and nursing homes that provide 24-hour medical care.

This article deals with managing the conflict inherent in parent - teen relationships. Why managing this conflict constructively is important. And some tools that parents and teens can use to manage their conflicts constructively.

Teens and their parents have conflict. How this conflict is managed is critical. If these conflicts are not managed constructively, families divide. Behavior and relationships degrade. Criminal conduct may follow.The teen years are confusing for both the adolescent and the parent.  read more >

The most revelatory text in the Bible about marriage is found in Ephesians 5. In verse 31, the Apostle Paul writes: "For this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh."

When Paul talks about "becoming one flesh," he's actually quoting Genesis 2:24.   read more >

When I was in college I had a job with a hardware wholesaler. My job was to pull pipe fittings all day long. So by the end of the summer, I knew every size of every fitting. When I began, though, I was clueless about pipes or hardware.

One of my first days on the job, I was looking at an order and it said I needed to pull a female pipe fitting at a certain size. And I thought: Female pipe fitting? What does THAT mean?

So I went over to one of my crusty  read more >

Hearts pounding with excitement, we paddled our canoes back and forth across the inlet, casting our fishing lines into the most pristine waters in America.

We were in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a million acres of unspoiled waterways in Minnesota along the Canadian border. Bald eagles graced the sky. The water was so pure we drank it straight from the lake. The wilderness was so remote we saw no one for days.  read more >