by Harold and Bette Gillogly Summer is a terrific time to celebrate being a couple! Life can get so intense, can’t it? Maybe your life is full of a lot of “gotta’s.” We’ve gotta earn a living. We’ve gotta take the kids to soccer. We’ve gotta mow the lawn. Perhaps your life is so full of “gotta’s” that you have pushed […]
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Teamwork – Serving the Lord Together
Joy & Happiness Spiritual Intimacyby Harold and Bette Gillogly There is a very special oneness that grows inside a couple when they serve God together. That’s because God has called you to be a team. Not just any team – He wants you to be His team. He has a unique job for you to do as His team…a […]
Spiritual Gifts Times Two
Decision Making Joy & Happiness Spiritual Intimacyby Harold and Bette Gillogly Have you ever taken on a job at church because you knew somebody had to do it, but within a short time you were exhausted by it — it just wasn’t you — you burned out fast? Do you know why this happened? Why do some jobs match you and […]
What are Friends For?
Joy & Happiness Persevering Love Tough Timesby Harold and Bette Gillogly I guess this Seeds for Growth article grows out of our intensified sense of need we described in the HI-LYTER. Perhaps it’s true you never realize the true value of something until you do without it for awhile. Here in Nashville we have done without close friends for nearly a […]
To Be or To Do?
Joy & Happiness Spiritual Intimacy UncategorizedBy Harold and Bette Gillogly You would think that with a Seminary education, many years of ministry as well as many years “under the belt” (and over half a century of marriage now), one would have only marginal life-changing lessons yet to apply – WRONG! Bette and I have learned a great deal over the […]
How to Help Someone to Change Their Ways
Decision Making Joy & Happiness Thinking PitfallsBy Rick Thomas Your friend needs to change. How do you help them to change? Maybe your husband is stuck in a bad habit and you want him to change. How do you go about helping him to change? Perhaps your wife is nagging and criticizing you to death. How are you helping her to […]
The Day I Knew I Knew
Decision Making Forgiveness Joy & Happinessby Bette Gillogly I was hot and tired as I trudged back to the women’s dorm. The afternoon was too warm for early October in the mountains of Southern West Virginia. And after cleaning every bathroom on campus – without air conditioning, I might add – I was ready for an ice cold drink and […]
Adopting a Successful Strategy for Marriage/Family
Commitment Joy & Happinessby Harold and Bette Gillogly Jesus said we are the salt of the earth (Matthew 5:13). Then that would make the church the salt shaker. Salt keeps things from rotting. God is calling the church to spread the salt…to stop the rot in our society. Looking at what has been happening to families since the […]
Home-land Security
Joy & Happiness Thinking Pitfallsby Patrick and Dwaina Six Writing this article created a lump in our throats, tears in our eyes and heaviness in our hearts. On 9/11/16 it will be 15 years since terrorists flew two jets into the World Trade Center towers, and one jet into the Pentagon. Flight 93 was apparently headed toward the White […]
Freedom to Fail
Joy & Happiness Persevering Love Thinking Pitfallsby Harold & Bette Gillogly The teacher was blunt, her words cruel. “He has too many learning disabilities. It’s a waste of time for him to even attend school here.” Later, Ralph Showers overheard his Grandmother soothing his parents with this great declaration. “I don’t know what people think of Ralph. But I know what […]