Dating seems to be that time of uneasiness that neither male nor female seem to know exactly the right protocol. Today on the David and Paula Show we’ll share practical ideas about dating.  How long should you date before you become engaged?  How long should you be engaged before you actually get married? What’s the type of person you should never date? And, should you ever date anyone more than once for any reason… Read More

I’ve been caught up in the controversy swirling around Tony Dungy, an outspoken Christian/ex-football coach, and Rex Ryan, the current head football coach of the New York Jets.

It originated with Ryan’s profuse profanity use on an HBO program.  Dungy was asked if he would hire a coach who used profanity.  To which Dungy responded, “Probably not.”

With ESPN in their desperation for drama, this is all they needed to fuel the controversy.  And so… Read More

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 fact, most of us are discouraged from cultivating our creativity.  We’re led, almost from childhood, into safer endeavors.

And yet the creative act is one… Read More

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, b-u-t-t, they negate the goodwill the apology created, and put themselves right back into the ditch.

When you’ve done something stupid at home, in your… Read More

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 to work.  But if you don’t know how they function, and acquire the skills it takes to make them healthy, you’ll be frustrated the rest… Read More

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 is to your ability to function financially, trust is to your ability to be married and healthy at the same time.

Tomorrow we’ll be dealing… Read More

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, the recent induction of Emmitt Smith into the Hall of Fame was especially poignant.

By all accounts, Emmitt is one of the good guys.  Named… Read More

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 history.

There is a way to navigate the dangerous waters that come with a second or third marriage, with children that are not yours but… Read More

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.  But for the first time I have ever experienced, Tony has made a super blunder.

You may wonder what it is, so let me explain. … Read More

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 or group, and never really sinks deep into the soul where ultimate change can take place.

To push that idea a little further, here are… Read More