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 …
Virtue and Friendship
Ambrose begins Book III (you can read summaries of Book I HERE and Book II HERE) of his magnum opus Duties of the Clergy by extolling the importance of drawing wisdom and understanding from scriptural …
It’s What You Do with It
“I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have drawn you with lovingkindness. Again I will build you and you will be rebuilt.” Jeremiah 31:3–4 NASB When German-speaking Mennonites …
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 …
Passion Sustained Through Purpose
How is it that two people so enthralled with each other that they decided to spend the rest of their lives together, who perhaps once shared an infatuation so intense they could scarcely stand to be …
Business Suits and Baby Ruth Bars
When our kids were very young, Halloween was the most challenging holiday for my organic-loving, healthy foods-oriented wife. Seeing her children come home with bags of candy just about made her head …