Tag: Relationship

Communication, Faith and Scripture, Keeping Your Focus

What’s Love Got To Do With It…Everything.

Tom Stanfield

Tina Turner sang a hit song, “What’s love got to do with it?” Here are the words to the chorus. What's love got to do, got to do with it?What's love but a secondhand emotion?What's love got to do, got to do with it?Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken? Is love… Continue reading What’s Love Got To Do With It…Everything.

Communication, Faith and Scripture, Keeping Your Focus, Leadership & Communication, Life Principles

Shepherds and Their Sheep

Tom Stanfield

The shepherd cares for the needs of their sheep. They only have what the shepherd supplies. The Shepherd’s Responsibilities Have you ever wondered why the analogy of shepherds and sheep are so important in Scripture? Let’s look at what a shepherd does and see how it applies to us today. One of the principal duties… Continue reading Shepherds and Their Sheep

Communication, Faith and Scripture, Life Principles

The Meaning of Love in Relationships

Tom Stanfield

I have struggled for years with the random ways we use the word “love” in our culture. It is used so broadly the meaning of it has become meaningless. We say we love everything from ice cream, to sunsets, to our mate and to our God. I just struggle with such a variety of meanings… Continue reading The Meaning of Love in Relationships

Life Principles

For Better or For Worse

Tom Stanfield

“For better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health until death do us part”. These are words we hear at most weddings; starry-eyed young people, deeply in love, pledging themselves to one another. Setting in the audience we get teary-eyes thinking about our own special day. How beautiful the… Continue reading For Better or For Worse

Faith and Scripture, Life Principles

“And the Two will become One”

Tom Stanfield

Have you ever wondered what God meant when He said, “And the two will become one”? Obviously married people are still two physically separate individuals. And yet He said, “What God has joined together let no man separate”. In the last few years people we are close to have lost a mate. They were married… Continue reading “And the Two will become One”

Life Principles

Unconditional Relationships

Tom Stanfield

The key word here is unconditional; a gift is given unconditionally with no “strings” attached. If it isn’t unconditional, it is a trade, not a gift, expecting something in return. A true unconditional gift expects nothing in return. We witness this when we see a parent caring for a new born; unconditional care with no… Continue reading Unconditional Relationships

Employee Training & Development, Leadership & Communication, Life Principles, Recruiting, Hiring, On-Boarding, Internships

To Change Your Culture, You Must First Change Your Paradigms

Tom Stanfield

“The culture of any organization is shaped by the behavior the leaders are willing to tolerate.” Gruenter and Whitaker As a leader of an organization, our organization’s culture is what we have allowed it to become; either proactively or inactively. What leaders seeking a culture change need to understand is they need a paradigm shift.… Continue reading To Change Your Culture, You Must First Change Your Paradigms