this warmed my heart

Love, love, love this ad I watched on YouTube. Made me smile and warmed my heart.



I'm still smiling. Acts 20:35. To some of you this may seem premature...but just let me say, "Merry Christmas!"

treat someone like royalty

Here's a video I came across that inspired me. It's about a teenage girl named Savannah. Definitely worth a look:



Who in your life could use the "royal treatment" from you? I'm convinced that one thing we have to offer that we don't share enough is the gift of dignity. Who can you bring a sense of dignity to today? A simple act of kindness goes a long way.

sundays scuds (november 6, 2011)

Sunday brought us part four of the 4 EASY STEPS TO WRECK YOUR MARRIAGE series. And per usual, it was chock full of scuds. Here are some of the ones I wrote down:

• The quality of communication in any relationship will determine the success of that relationship.
• The #1 problem in marriages: lack of communication.
• Want to wreck your marriage? Expect your spouse to read your mind.
• The average couple talks to each other an average of four minutes per day.
• God wants to heal your marriage but you have to cooperate with Him.
• Every person in this room lies. We lie to each other every day.
• "I don't want to tell them the truth because I don't want to hurt them." Liar, liar, pants on fire.
  
• Every time you open your mouth you either gain influence or you lose influence.
• Intelligent people think before they speak. Proverbs 16:23
• Seek to understand before being understood.
• Unmet expectations are the #1 reason people aren't happy.
• Communicate what you want, don't criticize what they do.
• Don't be branded as, "the critic."
• Studies show that if your compliments to criticism ratio is 5:1, the divorce rate drops from 50% to 7%.
• Reliable communication paves the way to progress.
• The way you get to intimacy is through conflict.

The series concludes this Sunday at all three NewPointe campuses. See you there!

sunday's scuds (october 30, 2011)

Last Sunday at NewPointe Church brought us part three of the 4 EASY STEPS TO WRECK YOUR MARRIAGE series. Wowza. Talk about firing off some scuds. Dwight was talking to the ladies. Scud time:

• It's not that marriage doesn't work--it's that we don't work the marriage.
  
• Ladies, your husband's needs are are different than your needs.
• The way you get your husband to love you better is to respect him.
• If your husband is going to accomplish what he needs to do in the home, he needs his wife's respect.
• Respect to a man is like romance to a woman.
• A man will always withdraw from a place where he does not receive respect.
  
• Respect is not a feeling. It's an action.
• "Respect your husband," is a command...and God will not command you to do something you're not capable of doing.
• Praise is a discipline that reminds us what is right with one another.
  
• A man would rather be unloved than disrespected.
  
• The best way to disrespect your husband: act independently of him.
• There's a deep need in every man to know that you value his perspective.
• Most women don't fully understand how their words hurt their husbands.
  
• The only time a man's heart is completely vulnerable is when he's with the woman he loves.
• Sex unlocks a man's emotions.
• Making love to your husband reassures him that he's desirable.
  
• Sex is the loudest and clearest way that you can tell your husband he's important to you.
• Sex is the strongest form of support a wife can give her husband as he faces a tough world.
• Rejecting sex = rejecting him.

The series continues Sunday at all three NewPointe campuses. If you're there, you're going to hear a great story about a couple who wrecked their marriage and how God put it back together. Their words: if God can fix our marriage, He can fix any marriage.

See you Sunday!