Bride Chooses Humorous Mantra for Her Wedding

A young bride to be was very nervous on the day before her wedding, so she went to speak with her minister. "I'm afraid I might not make it through ...

"What a Wife Wants"

Readers of Country Woman magazine were asked: What gifts would you like from your sweetheart for Valentine's Day? Several of the replies are below: ...

Bonhoeffer on Love and Marriage

Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote:

Marriage is more than your love for each other. It has a higher dignity and power, for it is God's holy ordinance, through ...

Joni Eareckson Tada's Wedding Day

Joni Eareckson Tada, who was paralyzed in a diving accident as a teenager, draws parallels between her wedding day, and Christ's love for his church. ...

Husband is Sensitive to Wife's Dreams

Jerry Bridges writes in The Discipline of Grace:

My wife and I went shopping for a coffee table. We'd agreed on the style we wanted and very quickly ...

Writer Judith Viorst on Marriage

"One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until ...

Vacuuming out of Love

One of the things I do for my wife regularly as an act of love is to vacuum the floors. Do you think that vacuuming floors comes naturally for me? My ...

Missionary Hudson Taylor's Thankfulness Through Grief

English missionary Hudson Taylor lost his wife and a child while serving in China. Two weeks after Maria, Hudson's wife, gave birth, the baby died ...

"Singles": Lowering Standards for a Mate

The movie Singles portrays a group of twenty-somethings looking for love. Theirs is an unending search for a true companion, which seems forever out of ...

God Loves Us Despite Imperfections

Picture Charles and Susan walking down a beach hand in hand at the end of the academic year. The pressure of the semester has dissipated in the warm evening ...