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06 Oct Four Habits of Powerful Encouragers

Posted at 15:57h in family, Leadership, Marriage, Ministry, Missions, Relationship Tip of the Week by Bruce Terpstra 1 Comment

If you are like me, you sometimes get discouraged and are tempted to give up. Often the difference between failure and success is someone who comes along side of you and speaks a powerful word of encouragement. Those words delivered in the right way have...

22 Sep What No One Tells You About Conflict That You Need To Know

Posted at 16:50h in Marriage, Relationship Tip of the Week by Bruce Terpstra 0 Comments

Most people hate conflict and will do anything and everything to avoid it. But if you are like me, conflict finds you anyway. It happened to me yesterday and everything I knew about relational intelligence and conflict went out the window – until I remembered...

07 Aug How to Handle a Forceful Person

Posted at 14:55h in Leadership, Marriage, Relationship Tip of the Week by Bruce Terpstra 0 Comments

You know the person I am referring. They can be quite direct and in your face about what they want to see happen. They have a goal in mind, and nothing is going to stop them. They are a force to be reckoned with as...

22 Jul Why Fear is So Destructive – But Can Be Overcome

Posted at 16:28h in Pastoral Care, Relationship Tip of the Week, Three Passions of the Soul by Bruce Terpstra 0 Comments

Fear. We all have it – to some degree. It is part of being human. We have needs that when threatened, cause us to have an emotional response that is hard to control. The power of fear can linger in the background in the form...

08 Jul Your Vision Casting May be Turning People Off

Posted at 19:59h in Leadership, Ministry, Missions, Relationship Tip of the Week by Bruce Terpstra 0 Comments

Vision is critical. It is the invisible motivation that brings people together to accomplish something special. Vision is able to bond people together that are different from each other. It unifies and creates movement. When vision is strong there is clear focus. Energy is released...

23 Jun How to Overcome Defensiveness

Posted at 14:18h in Marriage, Ministry, Pastoral Care, Relationship Tip of the Week by Bruce Terpstra 1 Comment

We all have a tendency to be defensive. If we can overcome defensiveness, we would have better relationships and make better decisions. But overcoming a defensive posture is challenging. Defensiveness kicks in when we are committed to a point of view regardless of what data is...

10 Jun How “WOKE” are You in your Communication?

Posted at 15:42h in Leadership, Ministry, Pastoral Care, Relationship Tip of the Week by Bruce Terpstra 0 Comments

Recently I saw a post written by someone who was completely fed up with the way people were reading their post. His statement insisted that “he was not responsible for the way other people interpreted what they said.” Clearly, he was frustrated by being misunderstood...

01 Jun Relational Intelligence Can Help You Engage with Racism and Conversations about Race

Posted at 15:27h in Pastoral Care, Relationship Tip of the Week, Uncategorized by Bruce Terpstra 1 Comment

At the very foundation of racism is the diminished value of a human life created in the image of God. You may have heard the phrase repeated recently at protests, “Look at me…I am human.” When we treat one another in such a way that...

12 May How to Help Your Marriage Survive the COVID-19 Virus

Posted at 13:46h in family, Marriage, Pastoral Care, Relationship Tip of the Week by Bruce Terpstra 0 Comments

The statistics coming out of China are alarming when it comes to the spike of divorce resulting from the COVID-19 virus. Being locked down for long periods of time with one’s spouse will challenge every relationship and reveal weakness and cracks in the bonds of...

06 Apr Your Personality Impacts How You Experience Shelter in Place

Posted at 18:05h in family, Marriage, Pastoral Care, Relationship Tip of the Week, Three Passions of the Soul by Bruce Terpstra 0 Comments

Just about everyone is currently sheltering in place under the recommendation or order of their elected officials. We share a common reality of being confined to a limited space and the danger of an invisible virus that has the potential to destroy. But that is...

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