The Advantage of Marriage

Mary Francis Meyers died today, a great woman in our church. Her husband Ken died two or three years ago. I'll never forget being in the fireside ...

Love Is Strong

Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Dormant Marriages

Every marriage seems to have its periods of "death" as well as "resurrection." C.S. Lewis felt this way and attributed so much divorce ...

Love: Better with Age

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.

The Materials of Intimacy

Every struggle we have that could be used as an excuse to separate or divorce is the very material God wants us to use to create intimacy in our marriage. ...

Doing It All Over Again

At a senior citizens' dinner, the group president recognized a couple that had recently celebrated their fifty-sixth wedding anniversary. The husband ...

The First Family Squabbles

Think of all the squabbles Adam and Eve must have had in the course of their nine hundred years. Eve would say, "You ate the apple," and Adam ...

Advice from Ogden Nash

To keep your marriage brimming,

With love in the loving cup,

Whenever you're wrong admit it,

Whenever you're right, shut up.

Marriages Require Maintenance

Even if marriages are made in heaven, man has to be responsible for the maintenance.

Marriage Myth

Myth: If two people are in love, their differences are unimportant.

Reality: If differences are dismissed or evaded, each person's right to be different ...