"Make a clean break with all cutting, backbiting, profane talk. Be gentle with one another, sensitive." - Ephesians 4:31 Les walked through the front door of our home this week, set a copy of the Wall Street Journal on the kitchen counter, and said, “Let’s never give...
"Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves." - Romans 12:10 John, our teenager, was looking forward to a weekend event with his buddies at church. But he never got to go. Why? Because each of us thought the other had submitted the...
“If you could give just one sentence of marital advice to these 200 students before you leave, what would it be?” It’s the closing question we pose every Monday evening to a guest couple in our Marriage 101 class at Seattle Pacific University. After our evening’s...
You have to fight! Those aren’t the typical words of advice written in a card for newlyweds or engraved on His & Her coffee mugs. But I think those words should be in cards, on t-shirts, in frames, and in every conversation we have about marriage. Let me explain:...
Can a Christian man and a Christian woman be married to one another, but not have a Christian marriage? Absolutely. Two Christians can say “I do,” but not have a shared, compelling, Bible-driven vision for their life together. Find a Christian engaged couple. Ask...
A new study done by Patrick F. Fagan examines the effects of pornography on individuals, marriage, family, and community. Fagan is Senior Fellow and Director of the Center for Research on Marriage and Religion at the Family Research Council. He specializes in...
Every year on our anniversary my wife Lynsey and I have what we call "Marriage Evaluation." I was talking to a friend about it yesterday and he said, "Did she get a raise?" The answer is yes! Lynsey gets a raise every year and I almost get fired every year! 🙂 But...