Celebrating a birthday is fun. Each family has their birthday tradition. The past few years we have been celebrating our family birthdays this way. We call them birthday adventures.

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Girls are unique individuals that every dad, husband, and boyfriend need to understand. Regardless of her age, there are common truths that apply to all girls.

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The call to submission should not be any stronger than the call to lead well by providing a grace-filled, joy-filled, and love-filled environment that motivates the person to submit.

Careful assessment and outside input is one of the best things that could happen to any girl who wants to be married. Her future marriage is too important.

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I’m going to offer you some of the major causes of future marriage problems that have their roots in the dating relationship. I am not going to deal with every possible angle of the dating/courting relationship. This is a weblog, not a book. However, I do want to highlight four major red flags that should cause pause in any girl’s heart regarding her boyfriend.

In the last chapter, I talked about the differences between boys and girls, and their unique sexual temptations. Now I’m going to talk about the long-term consequences of premarital sex by looking at a couple who had premarital sex and the long-term effects of their cover-up.

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In the last piece I talked about the differences between boys and girls and how they can be tempted sexually. In this piece I discuss the long-term consequences of premarital sex by looking at a couple who had premarital sex and the long-term effects of their cover up.

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This is the first in a series of commentaries I’ll be writing on traditions and customs which, in my humble opinion, are doing damage to the missional purpose of what is commonly referred to as the “Black Church”.

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Boys and girls are different.

And when it comes to the act of love in reciprocal relationships, the different ways they love each other is in full display. That is not a bad thing; God made Adam a unique male and Eve a unique female.

I don’t think this is news to anyone, especially to those who are married. A man is not affected by love the same way a woman is affected.

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We all say there are no perfect churches. It sounds good, and it is a true statement. But what if we explored more in-depth about how you relate to your imperfect church?

I suspect that every person reading this piece has been hurt in some way or another by something that has happened in a local church. And while I would not want to trivialize what has happened to you, I would like to cast a vision and make an appeal that extends beyond what has happened to you.