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05 Apr Stop Doing This If You Want to Be a Better Listener

Posted at 18:58h in family, Marriage, Ministry, Pastoral Care, Relationship Tip of the Week by Bruce Terpstra 0 Comments

Being a great listener is the best way to show someone how much you care about them. By listening well, you demonstrate how much you value what they are saying. The problem is that there are few great listeners. We are better talkers than listeners. ...

19 Feb Six Secrets of Communicating in Conflict

Posted at 21:45h in family, Leadership, Marriage, Ministry, Missions, Relationship Tip of the Week by Bruce Terpstra 0 Comments

Conflict is painful. It is destructive to families, businesses, and to ministries. It leaves people feeling like a failure believing they could have done something more to maintain the peace and live in harmony. For others they carry with them anger and a backpack full...

15 Feb How to Live Happily with Someone who is Cautious

Posted at 20:31h in family, Leadership, Marriage, Ministry, Relationship Tip of the Week by Bruce Terpstra 0 Comments

Having been married for 40 years to someone who is extremely cautious, I can share with you some things that I have learned. I’m still learning… because I am wired just the opposite of my wife when it comes to being cautious. My number two...

08 Feb If People Came with a Warning Sign, What Would Yours Say?

Posted at 18:24h in family, Leadership, Marriage, Ministry, Relationship Tip of the Week by Bruce Terpstra 0 Comments

It is easy to identify the “warning signs” to post on other’s foreheads. I can picture that person with a sign saying, “Beware – I talk to much!”. I wish they would just stop and listen and be more sensitive to other people. Sometimes I...

28 Jan How to Benefit the Life of Others and Yourself

Posted at 21:19h in Education, family, Relationship Tip of the Week by Bruce Terpstra 0 Comments

In a recent article written by Debra J. VanderVoort, of the University of Hawaii, she states that research has demonstrated that an increase of intrapersonal intelligence impacts every aspect of your life and well as that of our society. She defines intrapersonal intelligence as “Awareness...

29 Oct Four Ways People Make Decisions and Why You Need to Know the Difference

Posted at 09:45h in family, Leadership, Marriage, Ministry, Relationship Tip of the Week by Bruce Terpstra 4 Comments

Don’t assume we all make decisions in the same way, because we don’t. If you make this mistake, you will often find yourself frustrated that other people cannot come to agreement with you. You could make the perfect argument for your position and why a...

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...

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...

21 Feb Stop Pushing My Buttons!

Posted at 15:41h in family, Marriage, Ministry, Relationship Tip of the Week by Bruce Terpstra 0 Comments

I’m sure you have heard people say things like, “He really knows how to push my buttons.” It is a phrase that has been repeated over and over again because it is the common experience of people world over. I wouldn’t be surprised if there...