Videos

Assert Yourself

Dr. Alan Pickering interviews Dr. Phillip Shero, President of MasterMinds Leadership, about assertiveness, including compelling reasons for being assertive and some key strategies to use in order to be effective at it.

Happy, Healthy, and Successful Marriage

If you are going to have a marital relationship, why not make it a happy, healthy, and successful one? Here in Episode 2, I will interview Robert and Lauri Simmons, who lead a marriage mentor program, to discuss the essentials necessary to have such a relationship. This lively discussion will include many practical ways to build and maintain a successful marriage!

How do we Become Secure as Human Beings?

1. Embrace theological truths about our lives
2. Assessing others instead of comparing ourselves to others
3. The affirming voice of self and of others

Wisdom has 3 Components

Specific knowledge, common sense, and street wise. Using each of these components will allow you to serve others, be effective with life, and deal with evil/live safely.

Analyzing Our Reality

Let’s transition from creating a “perfect script” in our heads about how life is going to be to analyzing our reality and developing an appropriate vision for life.

Discipline Impacts All Areas of Your Life

Specific knowledge, common sense, and street wise. Using each of these components will allow you to serve others, be effective with life, and deal with evil/live safely.

Which professor will you listen to?

You Exist…so, What About Your Existence?

The 5 major existential issues of life are:
1-Purpose
2-Security
3-Significance
4-Lifestyle
5-Eternity

Who am I to People?

Tonight let’s contemplate a major paradigm shift from the question “who are people to me?” to “who am I to people?”

Assertiveness​

An interpersonal skill we all must master.

What Tends to be Your Response to Emotional Encounters?

What tends to be your response to emotional encounters? Rather than using one of the 27 different defense mechanisms, let’s utilize one of the 12 rational/spiritual mechanisms.

Why is it important to pray for your spouse?