Category Archives: Relationships

September 2, 2014 · 7:38 am

A Constructive Observation

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ThePreachersWord recently received an email from a regular reader, a friend and Christian sister.

We always enjoy getting responses from our readers. And it’s a special pleasure to hear from old friends. With a friendly greeting, “Hello Brother” her first line began, “I want to tell you how much I enjoy your thoughts and words of encouragement posted on your blog…”

But I knew there was more. This was going to be a special message. A personal message. Something with substance.

I knew it because of the subject line on the email. Two words: Continue reading →

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July 29, 2014 · 8:45 am

How To Love Someone You Can’t Stand!

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Doctor: “I see you’re over a month late for your appointment. Don’t you know that nervous disorders require prompt and regular attention? What’s your excuse?”

Patient: “I was just following your orders, Doc.”

Doctor: “Following my orders? What are you talking about? I gave you no such order.” Continue reading →

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June 4, 2014 · 7:33 am

Be a Rainbow in Somebody Else’s Cloud

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Poet Laureate Maya Angelou passed away last week at age 86. Active in the civil rights movement, she became a celebrated poet, novelist, educator, dramatist, and producer,

The list of her published works included over 30 best-selling titles including her internationally acclimated auto-biographical book, I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings.   Continue reading →

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May 20, 2014 · 6:04 am

Just Be Nice

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“Help us celebrate our commitment to making the world a nicer place.”   

Just Be Nice® is an international movement with a very simple and succinct message: “Just Be Nice”!   According to their web site, Just Be Nice® the group’s goal is to have 100,000 cars sporting JBN bumper stickers by December 31, 2014.  Continue reading →

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May 15, 2014 · 6:01 am

How To Build Christian Community

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An Army Chaplain tells the story of sitting in the Officer’s Club one rainy day. In fact, it was more than rainy.  It was a raging storm. The winds were blowing fiercely.  The rains were descending in sheets.  Nearby, two officer’s wives were watching the storm through the big picture window.  Continue reading →

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May 6, 2014 · 6:43 am

7 Principles For Improving Relationships

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For five years Wolfgang Dircks had received little notes from annoyed neighbors at his little Hamburg apartment. One read, “You have again failed to sweep the staircase.”

There were 17 families who shared the same apartment complex. They knew little about Dircks, except he was divorced, disabled, and difficult to get along with. Left crippled after a hip surgery, he was a bitter, lonely man. Yet the neighbors would put his name on the rotation for chores and he always missed his turn. They simply dismissed it as the inconsiderate and stubborn man he was. No one thought about ringing his door bell and asking, “Why?” Continue reading →

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April 3, 2014 · 7:33 am

Do You Really “Know God” ?

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My wife, Norma Jean, has a daily devotional book by Sarah Young called Take My Heart, Oh God. Today’s quote, by Jane Rubietta, is: “The more we know God, the more deeply we love God.” 

Think about it. Do you know God? Really know God?  Continue reading →

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January 30, 2014 · 8:05 am

Four Ways You Can Be A Blessing

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In an old Peanuts cartoon Lucy marched in and demanded that her brother, Linus, change television channels.

“What makes you think you can walk right in here and take over? asks Linus.

“These five fingers,” says Lucy. “Individually they’re nothing but when I curl them together like this into a single fist they form a weapon that is terrible to behold.” Continue reading →

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January 24, 2013 · 6:18 am

Are Your Relationships Real?

Manti.teoCrazy.  Unbelievable.  Bizarre.  All of these words (and more) describe the incredible situation of Manti Te’o.

The 21-year-old Te’o, a star linebacker for the Notre Dame football team, has been ridiculed, questioned, and doubted for his role in the hoax that led him, the Notre Dame football team and the public to believe that his girl friend died of leukemia.

In the outside chance that you missed this story.  Sometime in 2009 Manti Te’o began an online relationship with a girl he believed was named Lennay Kekua.  Evidently there were facebook messages, texts, emails and phone calls.  But they never met!  Because she was not real!  She didn’t exist! Continue reading →

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November 7, 2012 · 4:56 am

When a Hug is More than Just a Hug

The other morning as I was leaving for the office my wife, Norma Jean, said, “I need a hug.”  Now mind you I had already given her the six second kiss!  https://thepreachersword.com/2012/04/02/when-a-kiss-is-more-than-just-a-kiss/  I said, “Sure.”  Then she said, “I require 8 hugs a day.”   “Oh?”  She had read that in a paper from St. Luke’s hospital, “For the Heart.” Continue reading →

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