The Grace of a Loving Marriage

It is the highest grace of God when love continues to flourish in married life. The first love is ardent, is an intoxicating love, so that we are blinded ...

Noticing the Goodness

Since Tom and I, by nature, tend to focus on the hole instead of the doughnut, we try hard to "realize life," to call each other's attention ...

Levels of Love

Perhaps you read the story about a woman and her husband who came to a pastor and said, "We're going to get a divorce, but we want to come to ...

Marriage Maintenance

Years ago when my 2-year-old car needed a new battery, my son said, "Dad, we need to buy a new car. This one is getting old." When the tape ...

Love Must Be Blind

It is impossible to keep peace between man and woman in family life if they do not condone and overlook each other's faults but watch everything to ...

Mixed Messages About Sex

Girls in our culture are caught in the crossfire of our culture's mixed sexual messages. Sex is considered both a sacred act between two people united ...

Put Together by God

Like a tree,

I cannot move my roots,

for yours are intertwined among them.

Let us both be strong in God,

yet weak enough to draw from each other.

We are not ...

Sacrifice of a Husband

According to Stand Firm, although Johnny Oates manages the Texas Rangers, he's no Lone Ranger--he has a wife and three kids. He also has a mind set ...

Marriage Is Not an Achievement

Marriage is adventure, not an achievement.

Hollow Relationships

Few things are as hollow as a relationship intended for passion that instead is marked by mere duty.