Charisma Magazine

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1. Feeling Unappreciated? Try This Soul-Soothing Solution

How demanding life can be! You know what I mean, right? We follow that same routine—trying to catch our breath as we rush through the day, meeting everyone's needs. Where is the reward? My answer came ...

Created on 16 September 2017

2. Inspiring Ideas to Help You Grandparent With Grace

Inspiration to be a good grandparent is simple—as long as we have love, we have what it takes. "C'mon, sweet baby," I called to my 2-year-old granddaughter. With quick steps, she came. And as she stood ...

Created on 14 September 2017

3. Teaching Kids Kindness in a Cold, Cruel World

I was recently in a waiting room with three of my four children, and after I requested a "Yes ma'am" from them, another parent in the room thanked me. He thanked me for requesting respect and kindness ...

Created on 13 September 2017

4. Life Hack: When Your Spouse Doesn't Meet Your Needs

... h invest regularly in your marriage. But even then, many needs will not be met. Make the decision to invest anyway. Your needs that do get met in marriage will be the result of the relationship you both g ...

Created on 06 September 2017

5. Extra Grace Required—When You Feel Like a Referee

When I was young, I remember my mother telling my brother and me, "I just wish you two would get along." We were constantly picking at each other and argued about everything. Now that I'm the parent of ...

Created on 05 September 2017

6. Combat the Enemy's Lies With This Powerful Battle Cry

One of my dearest friends believed a terrible lie about me. Because she wouldn't take my calls, I couldn't address her misperception or even apologize for our apparent misunderstanding. All I could do ...

Created on 31 August 2017

7. Powerful Relationship Advice to Use Anywhere, Anytime

I remember a season in our home when our kids were little where two of our kids were getting into fairly regular fights. I—like any normal mother—wanted my kids to get along, and I wanted them to "be nice" ...

Created on 30 August 2017

8. How to Confront Rejection's Deep-Seated Roots

... u say."  She also wrote, "Wrong thinking can steal the life that the girl in you would love to live." Amen. ... If a hard situation, a difficult relationship or a mistake of your past has stolen your  ...

Created on 28 August 2017

9. Why Conflict Is Your Friend, Not Your Foe

...  an opportunity to strengthen the relationship? Jesus understood conflict. Though He Himself was perfect, He lived a life in our very imperfect world, and friction seemed to follow Him. (Consider John 8:1 ...

Created on 23 August 2017

10. The Amazing Power of God's Unspoken Work

It seems old-fashioned now, but my family used to go to prayer meeting. A generous handful of us would exchange warm, family-style greetings and then get cozy in the church pews. Then people would start ...

Created on 22 August 2017

11. These 3 Daily Exercises Will Strengthen Your Marriage

...  but something has changed within the relationship. You don't seem to talk as much. Decisions are not met with the same glee as when you were first married, but instead, they are delegated, then discusse ...

Created on 16 August 2017

12. 11 Key Signs You Are in an Emotionally Unhealthy Relationship

... aspect of these people's personalities. However, when you see this cluster identifiably together, you are most likely dealing with or are in a relationship with an externalizer. Not Responsible An externalize ...

Created on 11 August 2017

13. The Horrible Reason Many Christians Get Married

... n necessary. Relationship with another human demands forgiveness—letting it go. Isn't that a primary characteristic of God's relationship with us? Handling Conflict If you and your spouse were identi ...

Created on 08 August 2017

14. One Question You May Not Want to Ask Your Child

"How are you?" If you read my last three blogs, you're beginning to understand that this question that we are often asked, and that we ask our children, isn't simple. If your son answers while thinking ...

Created on 08 August 2017

15. The One Quality That Can Transform Your Crippling Fears

... In an effort to protect myself, I am sabotaging our relationship. My fear of losing John in the future was robbing both of us in the present. I decided then that I would rather love John completely, eve ...

Created on 08 August 2017

16. Are You Ignoring God's Supernatural Provision?

What needs are you currently struggling with? Are they spiritual? Physical? Emotional? Financial? Relational? If you're crying out to God and feel He isn't answering your needs, you may be looking in the ...

Created on 01 August 2017

17. God's Simple Remedy for An Angry Relationship

For some reason, I'm going through old prayer journals today. I often stick things in my journals, like notes. I came across a note my dad, the late Don Kennedy, wrote to my son Brantley when Brantley ...

Created on 28 July 2017

18. Are You a Compliment-Killer?

You'd think that we girls—girls who want others to think we're beautiful—would be thrilled to hear a compliment, especially from a member of the opposite sex! We are thrilled, aren't we? But in one of ...

Created on 28 July 2017

19. Why Forgiveness Doesn't Mean Letting People Trample You

... d unpack how to create healthy boundaries in your relationships.    Best-selling authors and speakers John and Lisa Bevere are founders of Messenger International.  ...

Created on 27 July 2017

20. Should Your Husband Come Before Your Kids?

... consistently work on your marriage relationship. 1. Once every seven days, go on a date. Get away, without the kids, for some time to reconnect. Press into one another's hearts and strive to take your ...

Created on 26 July 2017