Archive for August, 2010
Dave Rave – Five Reasons I Love to Write
I love writing, and I always have. It’s a place where I feel most at peace and certainly most creative.
Creativity, I’ve learned, is not the right of a few. All of us are born with it. The problem is, most of us don’t cultivate it. As a matter of… More
The Butless Apology
Here is the scene: It’s a national figure on CNN, tearful, head-bowed, offering an apology for the mistakes they’ve made.
Everything’s going great. It seems as though they’ve accepted responsibility for the titanic blunder they’ve just been caught making, and here it comes: the butt. And with that small word,… More
Today @ The Gathering – How You Can Build High Levels of Trust That Will Allow Your Marriage to Become Everything You’d Hoped and Prayed it Would Become.
Today @ The Gathering we talked about trust in marriage. Everyone knows it’s important, but too few of us know how it works.
It’s really important that you understand that relationships are like any other endeavor in life. You can want them to work. You can pray for them… More
Tomorrow @ The Gathering: When Trust is Betrayed, What Can You Do?
Join us tomorrow @ The Gathering when we’ll continue with installment #3 of our current series, “Accept No Mediocre Marriage – The 10 Things They Don’t Tell You Before You Say, ‘I Do.’”
What air is to the body, trust is to a relationship. What money in the bank… More
Have you ever put the look of wonder and amazement on your daddy’s face? If not, why not?
I make it a point every year to be in front of the television when the acceptance speeches are given by the seven inductees to the Football Hall of Fame. Not just because I like football a lot, but because there is always a lesson in human achievement.
This year,… More
Help! We have a blended family and we don’t know how to navigate the dangerous water of unmet expectations: Today on the David and Paula Show
Today on the David and Paula Show we will deal with blended families and all of the issues that come along with in-laws and outlaws and different expectations of child support and visitation rights and all the opinions that come along with the loss and brokenness in the past… More
Why Tony Dungy Shouldn’t be Taking On Rex Ryan
Let me say right out of the blocks, I love Tony Dungy. I admire him as a brother, as a coach, and as a great human being.
I love his books. Anything he says, I listen to. So you need to understand that this comes from a Tony Dungy fan. … More
Dave Rave – Five Mistakes You Can’t Recover From
In a recent blog I talked about mistakes and the difference between mistakes of competency and mistakes of character.
One of the greatest problems with mistakes of character is that the pain and aggravation of them usually lies on the surface of emotion or gets deflected over to another person… More
Not All Mistakes are Created Equal
You hear it often in conversation. People are talking, relating the story of the latest disaster. Somewhere within it, you’ll hear this phrase, “Well, we all make mistakes.”
And that would be true, but not all mistakes weigh the same. For example, adultery is not a mistake. It’s a sin. … More
Today @ The Gathering – Why is it So Hard to Get Family Right and So Damaging When We Don’t?
Today was the second week in our 10-week series, “Accept No Mediocre Marriage: the Top 10 Things They Fail to Tell You Before you Say, ‘I Do’”
Today we talked about the importance of the families we come from and what baggage we often bring into… More
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