A 32-nation study of violence against dating partners by university partners found that about a third had been violent, and most incidents of partner violence involve violence by both the man and woman, according to Murray Straus, founder and co-director of the Family Research Laboratory at the University of New Hampshire. The second largest category was couples where the female partner was the only one to carry about physical attacks, not the male partner.

Straus new research also found that dominance by the female partner is even more closely related to violence by women than is male dominance. These results call into question the widely held belief that partner violence is primarily a male crime and that when women are violent it is self defense. In the 35 years since I began research on partner violence, I have seen my assumptions about prevalence and etiology contradicted by a mass of empirical evidence from my own research and from research by many others, Straus said. My view on partner violence now recognizes the
overwhelming evidence that women assault their partners at about the same rate as men. However, when women are violent, the injury rate is lower.

Straus will present his controversial research at the Trends in Intimate\ Violence Intervention conference in New York City May 22-25, 2006. This research is part of the International Dating Violence Study, a multinational study of violence against dating partners by university students. A consortium of researchers around the world collected data from
13,601 students at 68 universities in 32 nations.

In the paper, Straus calls for an end to the focus on men as the only perpetrators of dating violence, saying the refusal to recognize the multi-causal nature of the problem is hampering the effort to end domestic violence and ignoring half the perpetrators. As recently as December 2005, the National Institute of Justice refused to consider applications for
funding that dealt with male victims. Changes in policy that acknowledge men are not the only perpetrators of
partner violence are needed immediately, Straus said. It is time to make the prevention and treatment effort one that is aimed at ending all family violence, not just violence against women.

Between the three of them John, Erik and Clint have annual company incomes of over 300 million dollars. Each of there stories are different, except for one common thread. They each started from nothing over 30 years ago. There are wonderful men and great friends. They have offered to come and speak for the International Mens Network at our Wealth Producers Seminar.

It will be brilliant. If this is what you are called to do. If you have a passion for the Kingdom and finances, then come along.

Bitterness is a weed that lies dormant in the soil of your soul till the conditions are right.

It then systematically grows pushing out threw your personality till both soul and mind are polluted and distorted. It becomes impossible to tell where one stops and the other starts.

All you know is that this is not the person you want to be or should be, but it is the person you have become.

Enthusiasm is an emotion, optimism is an attitude but faith is substance.

Enthusiasm is an emotion, optimism is an attitude but faith is substance.

Enthusiasm is an emotion, optimism is an attitude but faith is substance.

Champions are men in whom courage has become visible. It takes courage to face reality, admit need, change, make decisions, and hold convictions.

Courage ventures from the path and leads the way. It dares to be different and as a result, expands the circle of human experience.
The bears, lions and Goliath’s of life will never retreat of their own accord. They must be faced. Fear says run. Courage stops and fights.

Where are the great ones?
Those square pegs that refuse the urgent pull of the round holes?

Where are the unreasonable minds?
The men no longer satisfied with conforming to the image of this world.

Where are the free spirits?
The men that will give there life and spend there breath to shake of the shackles of mediocrity rather that be limited by the thoughts actions, words or parameters of others.

Where are the Warriors?
Those that are not only prepared to die for a cause bigger then themselves, but will live for it and live out LOUD

Where are the selfless ones?
Those so desperate for “thy kingdom come” that they shall submit to “thy will be done” in every area of there lives.

Where are the Captains of Giving?
Those that will spend their life making billions, not for consumptions, but for the confirmation of His covenant?

Where are the noble ones?
Those that want life to advance for all mankind, not just themselves.

Where are those of few words and mighty deeds?
Who say what they mean and do what they say.

Where are the preachers of a pure gospel?
Not soiled by popularity, not tainted by riches, not enamoured with themselves but passionate in there pursuit of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Where is the next generation of mighty men?
Who will stand for righteousness and run into the flames of adversity crying “Our God will deliver us and if He chooses not to, so be!”

Where are the hero’s of our faith?
Casting out devils, healing the sick, facing death for the cause?

Where are the individualist, the John the Baptist, the Martin Luthers?
Those who do not find their security in belonging to the large and comfortable, but can be secure with uncertainty in midst of adventure.

Where are those men that can not just read maps, but what to live a life that will involve the charting of new territory and the writing of new maps.

Some say “Where is the God of Elijah?”
I ask where are the Elijah’s of God?

We live in a world however, where having it all together is portrayed as a prerequisite for success. Image is everything so we are rarely honest about our own inadequacies.

Ours is a world of individualism and self-absorption.
We have been desensitized to arrogance by the constant call to self-esteem; to believe in ourselves

Add to this the basic misunderstanding of what humility really is, and we have the recipe for a world where pride is only thought of in positive terms; a world that also wonders why the sense of serenity and fulfillment does not follow its self-aggrandizement and selfish pursuits.

We need to renew our quest for humility.
We need to take this character quality off the scrap heap where it has been wrongly defined and disposed. We must take a fresh look at what humility actually is and look
afresh at the tremendous benefits it brings to those who decide to develop it.

(from my series - Secrets of Great Achievers - available here)

I preached on the Glory of God. What it really means. What it really is. I used Exodus 33 and Moses discourse with the Lord.
What a night. I closed the service twice, but people just stayed. They were worshiping, praying, hungering after God. I closed it again just before 8pm.
It was wonderful, i can not wait till He comes like He has promised us.

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