Thrift Schooling

The crazy cycle. We all experience it. In our marriage, with our kids. We just don't always realize what is going on, so we stay on this cycle of craziness. If you've read any of the books in the Love and Respect series, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Dr. Eggerichs explains in this book how we can show Love and Respect in our families. An interesting approach, since the only experience I've had with his concepts of Love and Respect was in the context of marriage. My husband and I attended a video series of his at our church a few years back and our eyes were certainly opened. The best way to keep a marriage strong, is to understand that men need to feel respected in order to love. Likewise, women need to feel loved in order to show respect. When a woman feels unloved by her husband, then it is very difficult for her to show him respect. The hurt and offense hinders the respect. Right or wrong, this happens. And vice, versa. When a husband feels disrespected...

After sipping my last drop of tea in Starbucks, I nodded in agreement to my friend who had been sharing how she had been through the wringer recently. Yet even through the pain, loss and disappointment, a glimmer of hope still shone through in her conversation. Filled with the presence and the Word of God she was holding firm to the promises of the One whom the Bible says sticks closer than a brother. She shared with me a sermon she was inspired by about certain obscure women of the Bible.  Bathsheba, for example. We generally hear her name and cringe. This woman ruined a king. A godly man who feared the Lord. But what about her side of the story? Have we ever stopped to think about how she must have felt. My friend shared from this sermon about how it showed her Bathsheba's side of the story and the pain and fear she must have been experiencing when her husband was murdered by the king and she was then married to the man who had her husband killed! The conversation with ...