Throughout my career I have felt significant tension between writing about marriage and upholding the ideal of growing in Christ, which includes sacrifice. Sacred Marriage is really, in my view, a …
Lifelong Love
My newly updated and re-released book, A Lifelong Love: Discovering How Intimacy with God Breathes Passion Into Your Marriage looks at marriage as a three-legged stool: spiritual intimacy, relational …
Our Weird Relationship with Sex and Nudity
In our upcoming book Married Sex: A Christian Couples’ Guide to Reimagining Your Love Life (October 2021 release date), Debra Fileta (https://truelovedates.com/) and I make it clear that porn is …
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The Valentine’s Day Gift that Keeps on Giving
Learning how to cherish each other can be the Valentine’s Day gift that keeps on giving. Chocolate will be consumed (and have to be worked off). Flowers will wilt. Lingerie will…get torn? …
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The Most Lovely of all Virtues
(If you’ve ever lost a child to miscarriage, please be careful about reading further—this could be triggering and traumatic.) “A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not …
The Gift Every Relationship Needs
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 …