Author: Greg Gifford

Exhorting a Passive Husband: Listening as a Key Indicator

Passive leadership by a husband is much like living with a natural gas leak in your home: a small amount can be dangerous, and if ignored, it can end up hurting many people. Passive leadership takes its toll on a family by slowly eroding the trust and unity of the marriage and respect for the husband as the leader in the home. Before long, disappointment turns to resentment, and resentment oozes into gangrenous disdain. I find that passive men are often “good” men in that they are not flagrantly immoral. However, the cumulative effects of passivity by the passive husband are often just as damaging as the husband that makes a one-time decision to compromise his integrity. In this blog, I will show how poor listening by a husband toward his wife is a key indicator of passivity. Continue Reading →

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Good Listening Makes a Great Peacemaker

Prideful people are terrible listeners, aren’t they? They don’t take interest in you, they don’t hear you out, they misunderstand you, and they weaponize your words against you. Whereas when we talk with the truly humble person, it looks the way that C.S. Lewis describes it: “Probably all you will think about him [the humble person] is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him.” Humble people take an interest in you; they do hear you out, take time to understand you, and protect your words. If 2020 taught us anything, it’s the importance of being people who promote peace rather than stir conflict. In this short article, I hope to show you that humble people are the best peacemakers, in part because they are great listeners. Continue Reading →

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Anxiety is a Cul-de-Sac: Biblical Clarity on Anxiety

There are concerns all around us: health concerns, pandemics, economic uncertainties, educational goals, and so forth. Our life is riddled with concerns, but have you ever wondered at what point does your concern become anxiety? At what point could we say you’re “too concerned?” In this article, I want to show you what the Bible says about concerns, how to know those concerns have become anxieties, and what the Bible calls us to do to remedy anxiety. Continue Reading →

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