We celebrated Valentine’s Day throughout the month with Weekly Blogs and a Monthly Feature about finding and keeping healthy relationships! Our Monthly Feature on the film, “Fireproof”, demonstrated how to persistently fight for your relationship through humility, kindness, and persevering love.

Click here for an official trailer on YouTube!

Weekly Blogs talked about determining whether someone genuinely love you for who you are, in “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa”, and whether they’re willing to return a show of affection, in “I Want You to Want Me“.

In addition, our “What’s New?” page made mention of a new book by Lori Gottlieb, about setting realistic expectations when searching for a future mate, called Marry Him: The Case for Settling for Mr. Good Enough, while another update highlighted the film premiere of “Furious Love”, a documentary about God’s power and love being displayed to people in places where God is least expected to show up.

Another “What’s New?” entry pointed out Four of the Best Sayings for maintaining loving relationships, pointed out by my wise mom. And it referred to the Weekly Blog about watching our words and their deep impact, “You’ve Got Mail”.

Finally, another Blog was contributed by missionary friends Woody & Su Roland, who oversee several missionaries serving throughout Latin America, about a historic example of persistent love in Dear Bess: the Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, Part 1 and Part 2.

I hope you all had a wonderful Valentine’s Day!

- RAD

Averting what might easily have been a much greater tragedy, math teacher David Benke stepped in to help restrain a gunman at a middle school. His courage and determination to help resulted in a quick resolution that local police believe saved lives.

Click the picture link at left for the full story.

Wondering if God’s power is real? If God’s love is real?

This Valentine’s Day, my wife and I will have a rare night out to see the premiere of a powerful film, about a man who put God’s love to the test. “Furious Love” shows the power of God being displayed throughout the world. Rescuing people from some of the darkest places, where no one believes that God’s hands can reach. For more information about “Furious Love”, click one of the picture links.

If you’re wondering whether God’s love and power can actually be experienced, find out if the film is playing in your area, and prepare to witness something you’ve never thought possible.

God bless!

- RAD

Here’s another exciting news story about a former bank robber who now shines as a lawyer submitting appeals to the Supreme Court! Click the picture or link below to the story about prisoner-turned-lawyer Shon Hopwood!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/us/09bar.html?no_interstitial

Wow. Someone else is releasing a book about some of the issues that women face when dating, and expecting a little too much. Follow this link for tips on mistakes that women make while searching for Mr. Right, not realizing that they’re really searching for Mr. Perfect-in-every-conceivable-way:

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/sex/dating-advice-7-mistakes-single-women-make-580573/

The author makes a great point that women “don’t need men” to be fulfilled in life (in the same way that men don’t need women), but if they actually want to be with a man, they need to learn how to give and take, rather than discard the Mr. Right that’s waiting right in front of them.

And check out the Weekly Blog on Cheap Trick’s song, “I Want You to Want Me”, about what demonstrates true love in a romantic relationship.

Have a great week!

- RAD