Part 4: The Flags of the Spirit by Harold and Bette Gillogly Being filled with God’s Spirit is for kids too! They don’t have to wait ‘til they’re 21 to experience the incredible joy of having the Spirit of God fill them up. They can choose to live in Green Flag territory instead of the […]
Submission and Headship: The Deep End of the Pool
Joy & Happiness Relationship SkillsPart 3: The Flags of the Spirit by Harold and Bette Gillogly We promised you in our last blog that with this one we were going to jump into the deep end of the pool! So here we go! Ephesians 5:22-24 is a continuation of Paul’s teaching about how we can tell if we are […]
The Flag We’d Rather Not Talk About
Joy & Happiness Persevering LovePart 2, The Flags of the Spirit by Harold and Bette Gillogly Red Flag – Stop! Something is wrong! Green Flag – You are going in the right direction. It’s safe to keep going! These are the Flags we’ve been finding as we’ve journeyed through Ephesians, chapter 5, for as verse 15 warns us: “Be […]
The Flags of the Spirit
Joy & Happiness Relationship SkillsIf you’re smart, when you see a red flag, you immediately stop and find out what it’s all about, because something’s wrong. But when you see a green flag, that tells you you’re on the right track, so you keep going. It makes complete sense that we begin our series on the Flags of the […]
Forgiveness – The Key to Peace
Anger Issues Relationship SkillsBy Harold and Bette Gillogly Feelings of forgiveness do not happen in a vacuum. We don’t wake up one morning and say, “I’m not going to feel resentment toward that person who hurt me anymore.” Shazam! Nope. Doesn’t happen that way. Our emotions change as we change our behavior. We can’t simply say. We have […]
God Says, “Forgive Like Me”
Anger Issues Relationship SkillsBy Harold and Bette Gillogly We talked about the first kind of forgiveness in our last two blogs: “to cancel a debt, to pardon.” Today we’re going to explore the second kind, and we want to warn you, this one is harder than the first. The second kind of forgiveness means “to relinquish resentment against […]
Forgiveness and Consequences
Anger Issues Relationship SkillsBy Harold and Bette Gillogly Forgiving someone – that is canceling their debt and pardoning their guilt – doesn’t always mean we can save them from the consequences of their offences. Here’s an example of what we’re talking about: One afternoon, our high school daughter came to us crying. She had skipped school that day […]
What Does Forgiveness Mean?
Anger Issues Relationship SkillsBy Harold and Bette Gillogly There are two different kinds of forgiveness. Wow! Who knew? First, it means “to cancel a debt, to pardon or remit guilt.” That’s probably what you always thought it meant. Right? The second kind of forgiveness is “to relinquish resentment against the debtor.” This second meaning is harder to understand, […]
Last Two Secret Ingredients for Lasting Love
Marital Intimacy Relationship SkillsBy Harold and Bette Gillogly Here we go, the final two ingredients to make your love last forever. Do you remember the first six? They are posted on our website www.marriages.net. Simply click on “Articles” and select from “Recent Posts” in the right hand border. But you are breathlessly waiting to hear the last 2, […]
Two More Things You Gotta Have to Make Your Love Last
Communication Spiritual Intimacyby Harold and Bette Gillogly We’ve talked about the first four ingredients you have to choose to practice in your marriage IF you want it to last. (Ingredients in. Results out.) See those articles in the “Recent Posts” in the right margin. Here are ingredients five and six: Talking Together Choice: So you sat your […]