Let's take a look at The Love Dare by the Kendrick brothers Do you remember the movie Fireproof? It had a book that went along with it--The Love Dare--and that book has been a huge best-seller for two decades. Today we're going to take a close look at it for a...
Sheila here! Did you know that every Friday about 45,000 people get an email from us, written by Rebecca? And more people read her article than read anything I write on the blog or on Substack! It's usually really well thought out, and connects a lot of the different...
with thanks to Brazos Press and Becoming the Pastor's Wife for sponsoring this post My grandparents met in Bible college. It was the 1930s in Manitoba, and they were both approaching 30. They weren't fellow students, though. She was the teacher. My...
If you notice a woman is beautiful, is that a sin? Have you already lusted after her in your heart? If you read many best-selling marriage books, you'd say yes. If you notice a woman, then you're tempted to undress her. That temptation makes you focus on body parts....
What does the penis, or male genitalia in general, teach us about God, about marriage, about the sexes? This month I'm trying to expand on sex ed for adults in our Wednesday themed posts, and I want to talk today about what the penis tells us about God. So far we've...
I remember feeling absolutely embarrassed and in shock at a youth group retreat where the pastor referred to the clitoris. His point was: "God created a part of a woman's body where the only purpose is for her sexual pleasure." At the time I wanted the floor to open...
Should you have unconditional respect for your husband, as Emerson Eggerichs claims in the book Love & Respect? I was overwhelmed by the response to my review of Love & Respect's sex chapter yesterday. Many of you asked for my take on the whole book, and not...
What happens when a bestselling Christian marriage book, like Love and Respect, treats sex as if it's just for the husband? Sometimes I get overwhelmed by the emails and comments on this blog from desperate people. I've been trying to address these things on a case by...
Have you ever really studied your husband?I mean really studied him? Do you know what makes him tick? Do you know what makes him discouraged, and what makes him feel like he can take on the world? Do you know what his biggest fear is, and what his biggest success is?...
If I were to ask you what it means to submit to your husband, what would you say? When I've asked that question at marriage groups, people hem and haw and then eventually come up with something like this: When we're disagreeing about something, the husband gets the...
One of the interesting phenomena I've encountered when blogging is that the angry men who leave "drive-by" comments quoting Bible verses about how women must obey and remain silent so rarely talk about Jesus. They take verses out of context from New Testament letters,...
A little before Christmas, an article appeared on the Desiring God website called "Husbands, get her ready for Jesus." Desiring God summarized Pastor Brian Stoudt's article this way:Husbands, we have the staggering privilege of getting our wives ready for Jesus. And...