How to Serve Your Mate

It's easier to serve your mate if you envision your loving Lord rather than your flawed spouse. Picture doing it for Jesus. The imposition then becomes ...

A Good Father Does It All

Scott Bolinder writes in Marriage Partnership:

My father did all the masculine things like washing the car, fixing leaky faucets, and reading the sports ...

A Different Kind of Sensitivity

Scott Bolinder writes in Marriage Partnership:

When my mother, the obvious sensitive one, would disintegrate into tears for whatever reason, my father ...

I Like Being Married to You

Gloria Gather writes:

I like being married to you ... because when you hold me close and tell me that you love me, I feel there must be something to me ...

Love Requires More than Romance

A love which depends solely on romance, on the combustion of two attracting chemistries, tends to fizzle out. ... A long-term marriage has to move beyond ...

The Perfect Marriage

Charles Spurgeon describes the perfect marriage:

Their object in life is common. There are points where their affections so intimately united that none ...

It's His Marriage Too

God so cares about this enterprise we call "our" marriage that it might well be called "his" marriage, too; he is that involved--feeling ...

The Laboratory of Marriage

God made us all individuals. Then he made half of us male and the other half female. Then he created marriage. Unless you think this was a cosmic practical ...

Relying on Each Other

Over the years Joyce and I have learned that it's okay for each of us to have our abilities and our strengths. We've adjusted to those and can even rely ...

It Takes Two

It is two people who give expression to marital oneness. Two people, usually polar opposites, who somehow commit themselves to building a framework for ...