Marriage Is Important

Marriage is important. My marriage. Your marriage. The marriages of friends, neighbors, fellow church members. After all, God created man and woman to ...

How to Choose a Wife

I am none of those insane lovers who embrace also the vices of those with whom they are in love, where they are smitten at first sight with a fine figure. ...

Love Your Wife

Of course, the Christian should love his wife. He is supposed to love his neighbor, and since his wife is his nearest neighbor, she should be his deepest ...

Marriage and Natural Reason

When that wise harlot, natural reason, looks at married life, she turns up her nose and says, "Ah, should I rock the baby, wash the diapers, make ...

Life in the Luther Household

In domestic affairs I defer to Katie. Otherwise, I am led by the Holy Ghost.

Choosing What Doesn't Make Sense

In the movie The Poseidon Adventure, the ocean liner S.S. Poseidon is on the open sea when it hits a huge storm. A wall of water crashes through the ballroom ...

The Tree of Marriage

A marriage partner may be compared to a great tree growing right up through the center of one's living room. It is something that is just there, and it ...

How to Serve Your Mate

It's easier to serve your mate if you envision your loving Lord rather than your flawed spouse. Picture doing it for Jesus. The imposition then becomes ...

A Good Father Does It All

Scott Bolinder writes in Marriage Partnership:

My father did all the masculine things like washing the car, fixing leaky faucets, and reading the sports ...

A Different Kind of Sensitivity

Scott Bolinder writes in Marriage Partnership:

When my mother, the obvious sensitive one, would disintegrate into tears for whatever reason, my father ...