Goal: To develop Spiritual Healthy Adult Mode behaviors that demonstrate you’re Loving Your Neighbor In Spiritual Healthy Adult Mode Behaviors, Part 1 of 3, we looked at the 19 core components of Agape Love, how they serve as a foundation for Healthy Adult Mode behavior, and how God would like to pour these into our … More Spiritual #12: Your Spiritual Healthy Adult Mode Behaviors (Part 3 — Loving Your Neighbor) 

Goal: To develop Spiritual Healthy Adult Mode behaviors that demonstrate you’re Loving Yourself You may recall my shortened definition of Wisdom is “to become skilled in living,” and a word-picture of the Greek word Sophia describes Wisdom as an artist, or any person standing before a blank canvas, who creates (with God’s help, inspiration and guidance) a beautiful picture that depicts their life one … More Spiritual #11: Your Spiritual Healthy Adult Mode Behaviors (Part 2 – Loving Yourself)

Goal: To understand the nature of God (His Love and Wisdom for Our Heart) as Healthy Adults  “We came to believe that a power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity” – Step 2 “We love because He first loved us” – I John 4:19 (TNIV) Healthy Adult Characteristic #1 – LOVE: You knew … More Spiritual #10: Your Spiritual Healthy Adult Mode Behaviors (Part 1 – A Loving God)

The Healthy Adult Mode series is written to provide you with insights, ideas and suggested behaviors, which when implemented, will assist you to obtain the healthiest of all outcomes for yourself and with others in the 7 Core Areas of your life.  The term Healthy Adult Mode actually comes from Schema Therapy, and when in this mode the … More Spiritual #9: Introduction to the Healthy Adult Mode Series

Goal: To discover your Spiritual Gifts and how your gift(s) assist you in your effort to live and love your neighbor(s) effectually. “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do” – Ephesians 2:10 (TNIV) The good thing about learning to love yourself and learning … More Spiritual #8: Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts

Goal: To understand your role in the change, healing and growth processes of your “neighbors.” The third and final part of the “66% – 33% Solution is just that, it’s a “Solution,” and allow me to explain what I mean by this term. In Part One, we identified among the many gifts we receive from God is the gift … More Spiritual #7: The 66% – 33% Solution (Part 3 of 3)

Goal: To be intentional and consistent with choices then behaviors that demonstrate healthy expressions of self-love. In this post we’re going to look at Part Two of the 66% – 33% Solution, which I call “the middle commandment,” and this commandment is to Love Yourself.  In Part One, we identified among the many gifts we receive from God is … More Spiritual #6: The 66% – 33% Solution (Part 2 of 3)

Good morning to you and good morning to 2023! As you begin to think about the new year and what you’d like to accomplish, allow me to suggest a template to organize your thoughts, goals, activity and skills you’d like to develop or achieve. My suggestions are threefold.  First, think about viewing then developing your … More Twenty-Three (Goals, Activities and Skills) for 2023

Goal: To personally and relationally benefit from the application of principles embedded in the Two Greatest Commandments (Luke 10: 25 – 28).      To achieve this goal I’d like to introduce you to a concept I call “The Sixty-six and Thirty-three Percent Solution.”   It’s based on a Theological premise located in the Bible commonly known as “The Two … More Spiritual #5: The 66% – 33% Solution (Part 1 of 3)

Goal: To understand how your spiritual growth process has parallels with natural growth processes.      The definitions of the Nine Fruits of the Spirit (Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control) and the Ten Descriptors of Agape Love (a person who Loves, Esteems, Cherishes, Respects, Favors, Honors, Accepts, Prizes, Relishes and demonstrates Devotion) appear later in this “Spiritual” subsection.  Growing these (and other) values, virtues, characteristics, and … More Spiritual #4: A word about your Spiritual Growth