Husband Learns Love Is More Than Words

Ken Davis writes in Lighten Up:

For the first 15 years of my marriage, I was a terrible husband. Diane held down a full-time job, became my secretary, ...

Mark Twain's Wife Loses Faith

From what I can tell, Mark Twain was not a Christian, nor did he claim to be when he began courting Olivia Langdon. Back in Twain's day, a man typically ...

Marriage: Going the Distance

In Sacred Marriage, Gary Thomas notes that there are trees in Washington State's northern Cascades that are hundreds of years old. One tree in particular ...

Nathaniel Hawthorne's Encouraging Wife

David Jeremiah shared the following story of encouragement:

Had it not been for a confident wife, Sophia, we might not have listed among the great names ...

Resentful Husband Retreats

I collect old newspapers. I was humored by a story in a 1930s edition of the Chicago Herald Examiner about a husband and a wife. The article, "Man ...

Linebacker Chris Spielman Helps Wife

When Chris Spielman played for the Buffalo Bills, he was everything a middle linebacker should be: tough, strong and smart, with passion, total commitment, ...

Wife Taken for Granted Too Long

A man accompanied his friend home for dinner and was impressed by the way he entered his house, asked his wife how her day went, and told her she looked ...

Keeping Promises

Writer and speaker Lewis Smedes says:

Yes, somewhere people still make and keep promises. They choose not to quit when the going gets rough because they ...

Are Fathers Necessary?

In How Now Shall We Live, Chuck Colson notes the disturbing realities that plague children who grow up without a father:

Children in single-parent families ...

Evangelicals and Cohabitation

A third of evangelicals between the ages of 18 and 35 say they have no problem with cohabitation, according to a survey by the Evangelical Alliance. The ...