Marriage often seems a zero-sum game: I get what I want at the expense of your giving up something you want. This fuels discontentment, which is a close cousin to the bitterness which poisons and kills so many marriages.
All tagged Marriage
The Cruciform Single
Single or married, your identity is in Christ because you, now and always, are in Christ. So live like that’s your identity, because, after all, it, and it alone, is.
Book Review: Breaking the Marriage Idol
Overall, I found Breaking the Marriage Idol deeply encouraging, and I am thankful for the compassion, clarity, and scriptural acumen with which the author writes.
what fragmentary rubbidge this world is
This is the last piece you'll have to read from me about my love life, or lack thereof.
Reflections on Father's Day
For fathers, the quality of our husbandhood is reflected in our commitment to multigenerational fatherhood.
living sacrifice
Let the record show that I've been resisting writing about this for a while. I don't want to talk about it — it's deeply personal, and not the kind of thing that comes up unless you are truly close with your family and friends.
Finding A Wife for The Man
Thankfully, because of the Second Adam, none of us is every truly alone. We are never without God our helper.
Tell Me "How Romantic Is That"?
I won’t regret anything at all
if the only world we see is
outside the windows of our minivan
Video Review: When Sinners Say I Do by Dave Harvey
When Sinners Say I Do is replete with Scripture and well presented. Though short, the video series highlights the fundamentals of marriage from a Christian perspective within a structure that adapts itself for Sunday School, bible studies, and personal study.
Marriage & Community
All of our current confusion over sexuality and marriage has only been made possible through the prior disintegration of communities. Both city life and suburbia give the guise of community by either placing one amongst many people (city) or by placing the family in a "guarded" castle (suburbia). Yet in both instances community (for the most part) is far, far away.
Biblical Symbolism, Marriage, & the New Covenant
What is necessary is not the creation of symbols. The symbols (like marriage) are already there. What is necessary is that we have our eyes opened to the Biblical symbolism that pervades our world and that we view the world through that lens rather than the symbol-averse of late-modernity.
A Good Man is Hard to Find
Am I saying only good men will take out the trash - because it is such a stinky chore? Well, yes, but no.
To Have and To Hold: A Football Story
My union with a Steelers fan was almost de-railed thanks to fanaticism.
Wedded Bliss
I’d be willing to bet there are things unknown about my dearly beloved and myself. Hence this post. Eight pieces of wedded trivia for eight years of marriage; in honor of our eight-year anniversary this previous Tuesday, August 5th.
The Angel of Marriage
You may or may not remember the story of Isaac and Rebekah right away. Those patriarchs and their stories can get so confusing sometimes. Some of you may even wish the patriarch stories didn't exist. But once we dive into the story things should start coming back to us. And we must remember that God still identifies His salvation in terms of "Abraham, Isaac and Jacob" (Matt 8:10-12; Luke 13:28-29).