Liz cringed when her daughter lost the election to become student body president just as she had cringed when her daughter didn’t get chosen as a cheerleader. But this rejection, one year after the …
How to Enjoy Someone for Eternity
Stubborn divorce rates proclaim that spouses often get bored with each other which, in a sense, is understandable. There are movies that I love—but I don’t want to watch …
What Singles Need to Look for Most
Singles, married people never argue with me when I quote James 3:2, that we all stumble in many ways. You don’t have to convince anyone who is married that the human heart is evil and has a …
Love as Tough as Tires
Images matter, and how we imagine what love should look like has a huge impact on our satisfaction in marriage and our acceptance of what it is. My long-time friend, Pastor Dan Little …
Not as Helpful as I Thought
Are you as good of a spouse as you think you are? How do you know? A student in one of my classes at Western Seminary (Portland, OR), was challenged when we talked through this in class. He later …
The Two Dimensions of Marriage
There are two questions we can ask within marriage that will take us to two entirely different dimensions. We have to choose in which dimension we want to live. The two questions are …