James 4:11-12

11 Brothers, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against his brother or judges him speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it. 12 There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor?

About the Collection:

I purchased Michael Webb's Relationship Collection to review it for potential customers and to learn from it myself.

As a whole, the collection was very good and has a tremendous potential for helping people at all stages of their relationships. However, as would normally be expected, some items were of higher quality than others. The values assigned to the bonus gifts and over all value of the collection was unreasonably inflated in my opinion and some of the bonus items were either missing or were promotional items and not the actual product, but I will go into that in the review if you read on.

In spite of this, the overall value of the collection can make a positive difference in nearly anybody's life whether they are single, engaged, married, or going through the unfortunate agony of a divorce.

Read on for the reviews and links to these individual products.

1,000 Questions for Couples

E-books and books like "1,000 Questions for Couples" are both fun and healthy for new couples approaching marriage. They are fun because they help you open up and draw closer to your loved one. They are healthy because they help you get to know each other better and prepare in advance for issues you will face in marriage so you can face them with confidence and security and skill.

I Corinthians 13 may not seem like a love quiz or love test initially, but it is.

First, what do you think love is? I Corinthians 13 gives the answer.

Second, how good of a lover are you? Tainted love always fails the test, but true love, real love, always passes every characteristic of love with flying colors. Is your love real? Is your love true? Is your partner's love real and true?

Find out here!

I am strongly convinced that God has an endless supply of answers to prayer already prepared and waiting for people to pray.

When we stand before God on Judgment Day, I imagine the tears that will be wiped away will be those tears for the loved ones lost, families lost, marriages lost, children hurt because of so many rich opportunities God provided for us at a great cost and yet we overlooked them and dismissed them as unimportant and unworthy of our time. And, yet the reason our tears can be wiped away is that for those who are saved by grace through faith will also have fruits of faith.

Saved people know how precious people are to God. Saved people care. Saved people seek God how to get involved. So, this message is an appeal to those who are saved, who are born again, who have turned from sin and who have received Jesus as Lord on the throne of your lives.

When we are unfaithful to God, God lovingly plans whether or not to open the doors for answered prayer usually withholding answers to prayer and doing all He can wisely do to persuade us to receive Him because we need salvation before anything else is important.

So, part of the reason we need to be close to God in prayer goes beyond getting answers to prayer and focus on our relationship with God, and that relationship opens the floodgates as our relationship with God deepens.

Sincerely,
Dan

Resources on Prayer:

• National Day of Prayer
  

This is just one of many reasons we must pray and act diligently and wisely to strenthen the family. Years ago, we were warned of the terrors that would happen if we continue to tolerate family destruction. Today we live daily in those terrors we once feared. Yet we tolerate what we once feared because we've become accustomed to it. We're accustomed to it until it happens to us or our loved ones directly. And, it always does. Someone is shot or blown up, and we say it won't happen to us. It happens to us, and someone else says it won't happen to them.

Taken from Yahoo News in Australia

NYC building collapses after 'gas' blast

A four-storey building has collapsed in Manhattan, injuring 15 people after an apparent gas explosion that may have resulted from a failed suicide attempt.

Witnesses reported a deafening explosion before the building on New York's upscale Upper East Side came crashing down, shattering windows across the street.

Smoke billowed from the debris during a frantic rescue operation and continued to emerge for hours after the morning blast.

Ten firefighters and five civilians were injured.

In Gustine, California, a woman returned to her home to find her four children and her husband dead. It is thought that the couple had been seen arguing earlier and that he later shot their children while they were sleeping and then turned the gun on himself. No motive was released for this suicide murder.

Neighbors said the family had appeared to be a good, happy, healthy family.

Of course, nobody "always" wins or loses. But, sometimes it feels that way.

It's painful to be forced through a divorce by a bad boy or bad girl spouse. It's more painful to go through it and then get beat up and robbed of everything precious by a bad girl divorce lawyer and a bad boy family court judge.

From the start the cheaters seem to have the edge. Unlike you, they've had time to plan this divorce and choose the timing of it totally in their favor. They've been studying divorce, getting advice from friends, reading books on it, and finding out what they have to do before they have the divorce papers served. They know when to send the family savings over to the affair partner's account and how to make sure the faithful have to go to other family members for money to live or pay for attorney fees, if they can afford an attorney at all. They're in control of the divorce, and you are not.

There are several books available for helping to bring back a wayward spouse, and many of them have some very good suggestions.

It's hard to decide what approach is best. And, just as it takes a long time to get into marital problems, it may take awhile to get out of them. Also, is not always about us and our problems. Sometimes it is our spouse. But, nobody succeeds by focusing on landing the blame. And, yet we should not be quick to assume that. In fact the danger of doing that is that we may drive our spouse away with blame while overlooking the things we need to see and do to help bring about reconcileation or free our spouses' hearts to return to us. I say "We", but sadly, my marriage ended a few years ago, and part of my motive in building this web site is to help others not have to go through what our family suffered.

Many in the church have a very superficial view of the consequences of marital infidelity.

Nobody should go into adultery without being willing to perish into hell and take children and loved ones along by example.

The Bible calls adultery a snare, a trap. When you get into a trap it is difficult if not impossible to get out. Yet repentance and salvation are impossible without stopping the affair once and for all.