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Rilke on Love and Sex

Tonight a dear friend and chef came over and cooked the quintessential cold winter dinner.  The kind that warms you from the inside out.  After copious amounts of visual, olfactory, oral and auditory pleasure...Read More

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Questions about Sex, God and Snowboarding

Sometimes I think odd thoughts.  Today I was thinking about how my son loves snowboarding.  It is the same passion and desire I had as a figure skater. Remembering that love ...Read More

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A Failure to Thrive ... marriage in the 21st century

Waiting for my flight I check my email, “Tina, Duane and I need to come in to see you ASAP.  I found out he has been communicating with another woman and has had drinks with her a couple of times.  I suspect more …” Read More...

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Barely Touched - Sexuality and the Single Christian Adult

“I have nowhere to turn and I have myself all jumbled up inside.” Before me sat a 28 year old Christian woman who had been in a wonderful loving relationship for about a year Read More...

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Tools for a Deeply Connected Relationship

When two people commit to each other they do so believing their love is strong and want it to grow even stronger over time.  My dad used to call marriage a Mutual Admiration Society Read More...

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Walking the Talk …

As I prepare for our next Couple’s Sacred Intimacy Retreat as well as a couple of upcoming talks, I find myself thinking about the eight couple’s that bravely ventured into the vulnerable world of intimacy at our last retreat in March. Read More...

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Basic Christianity ... NOT Christian Extremists

Few things printed in the public press inspire me … and how I love to be inspired! But today a colleague passed along this op-ed on the Rev John Stott who died recently.
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Need more joy? Take 5

Failure to take pleasure in the good things in life dishonors the gifts or accomplishments that deserve appreciation. It also dishonors your desire to know joy.
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We don’t have much time … we better go slow!

Except for paying attention, what else is continual prayer?
Poet Samuel Green

How often do you let the sense of being rushed prevent you from enjoying the moments you have ... with your friends, with your children, with your beloved? Read More...

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