I recently read some very bad and very dangerous advice given to a soon-to-be bride: "Everybody has doubts on their wedding day." This was after she articulated some reasonable objections to the …
What Makes God Happy? The First Goal of Our Marriage Should Be to Please God
What’s more important--your happiness, or God’s? That may sound like a bizarre question, but it’s a crucial one to ask when your marriage reaches a place where it’s just not...fun, anymore. In the …
Set Yourself Free From Unenforceable Rules
We bring much angst into our lives when we feel like something must happen that we can’t make happen. This is true of married life and it’s true of parenting. Dr. Fred Luskin writes about the wisdom …
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Did I Marry the Right Person?
I am just two weeks away from my deadline for my next book, and I'm preaching the next three weekends here in Colorado, so this week I'm running an excerpt from Sacred Marriage. It addresses …
Avoiding a Marriage Fracture, Part 2
If you missed last week’s post, part 1, you can read it here first: Avoiding a Marriage Fracture. This is more advice about how to keep your marriage not just connected but growing …
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Nana and Papo Camp, Business Buddy Marriage, and a Wider View of What Builds a Strong Marriage
Lisa and I just wrapped up a weeklong "Nana and Papo Camp" with our two grandchildren. We share very briefly some of what we did, but even more, how watching each other serve our grandchildren builds …