Tag: laugh
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Why so Serious? 3 Ways to Invest Laughter in Your Marriage
My wife I and love to laugh (even as I type that, I almost see it as an understatement). It’s one of our two essential elements of a healthy marriage. Jesus. Gives us a foundation and structure to build with. Laughter. Gives us a healthy connection and a filter to process life. Anne and I…
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A Prayerful Marriage: 6 Things that are Okay to Pray Over Your Marriage
I’ll give props to Cori, my neighbor down the street. On my weekly Wednesday prayer walk, I ask my Facebook friends to post their needs so I can specifically pray over them. Her request froze me in my tracks. It was so simple, and yet, specific. Cori’s child was heading off with other 5th graders to a…
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Our Kfirst Values: We keep it fun
I started a series a few weeks back about the values of our church community. Here at Kfirst, our mission is our passion: We make it simple for people to find and follow Jesus. And our values guide us towards that goal. Check out last weeks by clicking on the value statement: Week 1 – Everyone is Significant. Week 2 – We…
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7 Habits of Highly Defective Marriages part 6: Lack of Laughter
A month ago, we started a new series of seven blogs designed to recognize unhealthy habits. If you missed the last four weeks check out our first FIVE Highly Defective Habits: Habit #1: Spiritual Continuity. Habit #2: The Single Life Habit #3: The Fun-less Couple Habit #4: Criticism Floods Habit #5: Inconsistent Sex Here we go…#6…
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7 Habits of Highly Defective Marriages: Part 3 No Fun
Two weeks ago, we started a new series of seven blogs designed to recognize unhealthy habits. If you missed the last two weeks check out our first TWO Highly Defective Habits: Habit #1: Spiritual Continuity. Habit #2: The Single Life Here we go…#3 on the list of my 7 Habits of Highly Defective Marriages: Habit #3: The…
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2 Minute Marriage Devo: “Bring marriage back to life” #marriage
June is our journey through some scripture selections on the topic of Marriage. I want to invite you to join me. It’s as simple as looking at the blog and reading the passage for the day. Today’s passage is Proverbs 17:22: Proverbs 17:22 22 A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
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The Myth of Compatibility
Men and women are different. (Now that I’ve completely blown you away with that ground-breaking truth, I’ll continue.) What I’ve discovered, and continue to discover in my own marriage, is how different we continue to be. It seemed like during the whole courtship/dating process, we were so much more “compatible”. The word “compatible” means, “Able…