If I could give one gift to married couples, parents, roommates, and fellow Christians, I think it might be…compassion. Let me try to explain why we often lack it, and why it’s so essential to …
Stable Christmas
One of the best lines I've heard someone utter about 2020 is that they are seriously hoping for something 'precedented' in 2021. So many things in 2020 have been called "unprecedented." 2020 has …
Asking too Much of Our Marriages
Stanford professor David Cheriton cuts his own hair and bought a used Honda Odyssey for his family. He’s lived in the same colonial-style house for over thirty years. He flies commercial and even …
A Simple Exercise to Crank Things Up in the Bedroom
In her book Mating in Captivity, Esther Perel, a therapist, describes a simple tool to help couples understand each other better. We can live with each other and be married to each other for years and …
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What I’m Writing Next: A Book on Sex
“Gary,” my friend asked me and a number of other writers/speakers/pastors involved in national marriage ministry. “What’s the one book you’d recommend for Christian couples about sex?” This man has …
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Avoiding Marital Eruptions
I was shooting baskets in my Pacific Northwest boyhood home in 1980 when a gigantic plume of smoke way off in the distance told me that the world had changed. Mount St. Helens had finally blown its …