Scaling Mount Everest (Like Marriage or Advent) Requires Preparation

Nobody who wants to keep on living wakes up one morning and suddenly decides, "I think I'll climb Mount Everest today." Such a monumental ...

Marital Phases

After author Philip Yancey and his wife reached their 25th wedding anniversary, he reflected on their experience:

Before marriage, each by instinct strives ...

Dating Prepares for Divorce

Dating doesn't train young people for marriage; it prepares them for divorce. Dating typically involves a series of short-term relationships. Even ...

The Joy of Marriage

When we look at the Song of Songs, we see the joy we're supposed to find in one another. That's the model we have to go by--not one of drudgery, ...

Partners Must Become Compatible

Every person who comes into marriage is an amateur, and no couple who marries is ever compatible. It's a lifelong process of becoming compatible.

Marriage Is a Great Teacher

Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you were single.

Mouthful of Bitterness

Ignorance is not bliss! Ignorance is like sneaking that first bite of Hershey's unsweetened chocolate while your mom's out hanging the clothes. ...

Parenting the Parents

We spend a lot of time on the subject of sex education in the schools. Maybe it's time to introduce mandatory courses in parenting -- for boys as ...

Criterion for Family Health

One criterion of family health: Are you saying, "I'm sorry," "I forgive you," and "I love you" often?

In Sickness or in Health

I took you, love,

In sickness or in heath,

For better or for worse.

And now I live my promise out. ...

The promises we made

Hold and support us both.

We are ...