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		<title>Moments with You Couples Devotional 2/23</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recommend this article to your friends. Print Email FEBRUARY 23 Short End of the Stick Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but desire fulfilled is a tree of life. PROVERBS 13:12 We all come into marriage with a full yardstick of expectations—what love looks like, what our roles will be, what we&#8217;ll do on weekends, where we&#8217;ll go for Christmas. But over the years, that yardstick starts getting snapped off an inch or two at a time, until we&#8217;re left holding something a whole lot shorter than what we brought with us. This leads to what I call the Unmet Expectation Syndrome. And every time it happens, the natural reaction is to go from disappointment to hurt to anger and finally to punishment—making your spouse pay for not living up to your expectations. Here are four better ways to deal with these unmet expectations: 1. Love and forgive. Because you vowed before God to remain committed to each other, you must both own up to your failures and responsibilities. Your marriage will never outgrow its need for massive doses of forgiveness. 2. Communicate and seek to understand each other. Expectations must be managed, and the best way to do that is to keep the communication lines open. Clarify your needs and expectations. Don&#8217;t leave each other guessing. 3. Develop God&#8217;s perspective. Your spouse will never be able to meet the needs in your life that can only be met by God alone. Let Him be your sufficiency. 4. Don&#8217;t throw ...]]></description>
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		<title>Moments with You Couples Devotional 2/22</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 07:11:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recommend this article to your friends. Print Email FEBRUARY 22 Peer ProblemsHe who walks with wise men will be wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm. PROVERBS 13:20 Barbara and I often prayed that the Lord would supply healthy friends to come alongside our kids at school and at church—friends who could be good, steady influences on them. But we also learned four critical unvarnished observations about peers: 1. Don&#8217;t assume your children&#8217;s peers have the same values as your family. Even if they go to the same church and youth group. Even if they seem to be like your children in most respects, don&#8217;t automatically consider them good friends for your kids to be around. Exercise discernment. 2. Don&#8217;t assume your children&#8217;s peers are good choosers of friends themselves. Just because a boy or girl comes from a good home, you don&#8217;t know the kind of friends they have. You don&#8217;t know who&#8217;s likely to be hanging around at their house when your children are there. 3. Don&#8217;t believe everything your children&#8217;s peers say. Trust me, even good teens can be deceitful. Our children had friends who lied right to our faces. They lied behind our backs. They were &#8220;good&#8221; kids by most standards, but they needed to be held accountable and checked up on. 4. Don&#8217;t assume your children&#8217;s peers will speak the truth to your children. More than any of the other three items in this list, this one snuck up and bit us. Our ...]]></description>
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		<title>Moments with You Couples Devotional 2/21</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:59:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recommend this article to your friends. Print Email FEBRUARY 21 Are You Worthy of Imitating? His delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night. PSALM 1:2 I was talking with a businessman recently who is involved in a Bible study with about a half-dozen men. These guys are all &#8220;well oiled,&#8221; financially speaking. But as I listened to him describe these men, I wondered what kind of Christianity they were modeling to their children. As parents, we need to think about the priorities we are teaching our children by our words and our actions. Ask yourself, If I could pass on my relationship with God to my kids, would they be satisfied with what they receive? If my children could never experience anything more than what I have today, would they be given enough to chart themselves successfully through life? Would they experience God? Would they know enough of Christ to long for more—a deeper and deeper fellowship with Jesus Christ? One thing we often say in our conferences and on radio is that your children will listen to what you say, and they will do what you tell them, but they will become who you are. If your daily experience with Christ is less than you want your children to possess, they probably won&#8217;t ever have it either. Your model should be the man in Psalm 1—the one whose &#8220;delight&#8221; is in spending time with God and His Word (verse ...]]></description>
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		<title>Moments with You Couples Devotional 2/20</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 06:31:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recommend this article to your friends. Print Email FEBRUARY 20 Life in the Fast-Food Lane BY BARBARA RAINEY Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. EXODUS 20:8 When Truett Cathy opened his Dwarf House restaurant in the Atlanta suburb of Hapeville, Georgia, in 1946, he made a decision never to deal with money on the Lord&#8217;s Day. The Dwarf House was always closed on Sundays. Perhaps this policy didn&#8217;t seem extremely revolutionary to his post-World War II American patrons. But that small restaurant was the first franchise for Chick-fil-A®—and by the organization&#8217;s sixtieth anniversary, it had multiplied into over 1,200 restaurant locations. As Chick-fil-A continues to grow, it also continues to close its operations on Sunday, traditionally one of the biggest days for food service. Being closed on Sunday is a reflection of Truett&#8217;s purpose statement for his company. It&#8217;s an investment in the spiritual lives of his employees and a witness to both the watching world and the restaurant industry. He still refers to his closed-on-Sunday policy as &#8220;the best business decision I ever made.&#8221; In fact, Chick-fil-A restaurants often generate more money in six days than other comparable restaurants do in seven. Being closed on Sunday is also a reflection of one of my core values: Sabbath rest. I believe that when we yield control of our lives to the Father—when we reserve our Sundays to turn from our activity to rest and to abide more fully in Him—we receive strength for daily living throughout the coming ...]]></description>
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		<title>Moments with You Couples Devotional 2/19</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recommend this article to your friends. Print Email FEBRUARY 19 Quivering Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are the children of one&#8217;s youth. PSALM 127:4 The last three verses of Psalm 127 are some of the most precious in the Bible when it comes to thinking about our children. Barbara and I have certainly had a &#8220;quiver&#8221; full with our six (see verse 5). But part of the reward God talks about in this passage comes with responsibility—the responsibility to launch our children into adulthood at the appropriate time. If you&#8217;ve done any archery or bow hunting, you know that the moment you make your release, two things happen: (1) the arrow whips off the bow, and (2) you experience &#8220;string slap&#8221; as the bowstring smacks against your forearm. Man, it can hurt—the same way the flight of your grown children can ache in your heart. But there is purpose to this pain. There is a reason for this release. I&#8217;m reminded of what Jim Elliot wrote to his parents after informing them that he was being called by God to the jungles of Ecuador as a missionary. Like any parents, Jim&#8217;s folks wished for him safety and security, a steady income beneath his feet and a roof over his head. But he said to them: Remember how the Psalmist described children? He said they were a heritage from the Lord, that every man should be happy who had his quiver full of them. And what is ...]]></description>
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		<title>Moments with You Couples Devotional 2/18</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 05:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recommend this article to your friends. Print Email FEBRUARY 18 Past Problems My mother&#8217;s sons were angry with me; they made me caretaker of the vineyards. SONG OF SOLOMON 1:6 Song of Solomon is filled with wonderful insights on love and marriage. Many of them have been well taught through sermons and conferences and Bible studies. But some of the deepest lessons lie between the lines, where you see what&#8217;s really going on in this ancient yet timeless relationship between Solomon and his bride. Solomon&#8217;s young bride did not arrive as a woman already refined and elegant—fit for a king. Instead, the Scriptures indicate that she had a humble, impoverished upbringing. Rather than having the milky complexion of a highborn maiden, her skin was dark and weathered from physical, outside work (as seen in today&#8217;s verse). As a result, she brought some needs from her past into her relationship with Solomon. And, men, your wife probably did too. Yet rather than rejecting her because of her past problems and background, Solomon provided his wife with a love that cast out fear. He gave her the security of knowing that he accepted her just the way she was. When he referred to his Shulammite bride as &#8220;my darling&#8221; (1:15), he used a term that carried connotations of a shepherd—one who fiercely cares for, guards and tends to his charge. Men, we need Solomon&#8217;s kind of passion for rescuing and protecting our wife&#8217;s heart and accepting whatever difficulties from her family upbringing ...]]></description>
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		<title>Moments with You Couples Devotional 2/16</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 05:00:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recommend this article to your friends. Print Email FEBRUARY 16 Up Close and Personal Each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself. EPHESIANS 5:33 Someone has said, &#8220;Love is blind, but marriage is a real eye-opener.&#8221; How true. You start marriage from a distance. Your honeymoon view is soft and fuzzy, filtered through a fine mist of warm feelings. Goose bumps. Everything appears to be perfectly put together. But the closer you get to one another, the more flaws you see. If you were looking at me from across the room, there are some things you couldn&#8217;t tell about me from that vantage point. You wouldn&#8217;t be able to see that a childhood case of chicken pox left a noticeable scar on my forehead. You wouldn&#8217;t notice the little nick I got right above my eyebrow from sledding into a fence when I was five years old. Marriage is much like that, isn&#8217;t it? The longer you are together, the more things you learn about this man or woman—this person you once kissed at a candlelit altar—that are not very pleasant, not too pretty. Marriage truly is the process of two selfish people learning to love one another in the midst of their imperfections. For some, that&#8217;s where divorce is born . . . if not actual legal divorce, then emotional divorce. But for you, it can be where love and commitment grow, as you draw closer and closer without rejecting the other or ...]]></description>
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		<title>Moments with You Couples Devotional 2/15</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Feb 2012 03:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recommend this article to your friends. Print Email June 8 FEBRUARY 15 Valentine&#8217;s Year Be exhilarated always with her love. PROVERBS 5:19 &#8220;I really thought romance was something you did on special occasions like Valentine&#8217;s Day and your anniversary. But you know, I think my wife might want romance a little more often.&#8221; You think? Valentine&#8217;s Day came and went yesterday. All over the country, beautiful cards were opened, heart-shaped candy boxes exchanged hands, and flower vases sprouted up on tabletops and nightstands. Last night, lingerie was worn and thrown on the floor where it belongs. And somewhere in the back of your mind, you might have given yourself some pats on the back for points scored. Money in the marriage bank. &#8220;Okay, that&#8217;s done.&#8221; Actually, though, Valentine&#8217;s Day should function as a small reminder of the kind of romance we should be cultivating 365 days a year. It should help us see that the reason why Valentine&#8217;s Day brings out the best in us &#8211; romantically speaking &#8211; is because it&#8217;s something we mark on the calendar. We plan for it. We go to the store a week in advance to avoid that sick feeling of choosing from the picked-over cards left on February 13. What if you were that thoughtful and deliberate every time you made plans to romance your spouse? What if you regularly flipped through the Sunday ads, seeing if there was something you could give her that would bring out a smile? What if you ...]]></description>
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		<title>&quot;Valentine&#8217;s Day Massacre&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 02:06:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recommend this article to your friends. Print Email FEBRUARY 14 Valentine&#8217;s Day Massacre You have not remembered the days of your youth but have enraged Me by all these things. EZEKIEL 16:43  It arrives so fresh off the heels of Thanksgiving and Christmas, it&#8217;s easy to overlook. You&#8217;ve just barely gotten used to writing the new year on your bank checks. For all practical purposes, it&#8217;s simply the typical weekday between February 13 and February 15. But this is not a day for practical purposes. This is Valentine&#8217;s Day. And Sam forgot it. Sam&#8217;s wife had a card addressed to him, hidden in her top dresser drawer. Her gift to him was under her dresses in the closet. She waited for him to make the first move, to end this little dodge of his. There he was, sitting down to watch television at 7:30 at night as if he might be camped out there till bedtime&#8230; as if he&#8217;d actually forgotten what day this is! Finally, at 10 P.M., when Sam had stumbled upstairs to brush his teeth, he found his wife sitting bolt upright in bed. Somehow the temperature felt noticeably cooler in that room than in the other parts of the house. &#8220;What&#8217;s the matter? What&#8217;d I do?&#8221; He did a super-quick scan of his usual offenses. Everything checked out. &#8220;Tomorrow morning,&#8221; she said through clenched teeth, &#8220;I expect to find a gift in the driveway that goes from zero to two hundred in less than six seconds. ...]]></description>
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		<title>Moments with You Couples Devotional 2/13</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 00:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recommend this article to your friends. Print Email FEBRUARY 13 Bringing It Home Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her. EPHESIANS 5:25 On Valentine&#8217;s Day 2005, Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and his wife, Janet, restated and renewed their wedding vows along with 4,000 other couples gathered in Little Rock&#8217;s Alltel Arena. I had the privilege of performing the ceremony, which included husbands and wives of all ages and backgrounds, celebrating the lifelong commitment of covenant marriage. One of the most touching stories of the night, however, happened not in the crowded arena, but in a nearby home where a couple was listening to the proceedings on the radio. At one point, the husband became so moved by the significance of the moment that tears began to well in his eyes. Soon they were streaming down his face. His little son, surprised by what he was seeing, crawled into his father&#8217;s lap and asked, &#8220;What&#8217;s wrong? Why are you crying?&#8221; No explanation seemed to satisfy the young boy&#8217;s curiosity, so he kept asking his father, &#8220;Why are you crying, Daddy?&#8221; Finally, the man pulled his son up close and whispered something into his ear. The boy then crawled down quickly and ran to his mom, who was sitting across the room. He took her by the hand, looked into her eyes and explained, &#8220;Daddy said he&#8217;s crying because he loves you so much.&#8221; We have a generation of children today who ...]]></description>
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