Have you ever felt like the hours are going by so quickly that you just can’t seem to keep up no matter how fast you run after them? I’ve felt like that lately. Life is filled with noise and God seems “strangely silent,” as Beth Moore puts it in her study on the book of…
When my husband James and I were engaged, we met with our wedding coordinator at the church. There just happened to be a wedding scheduled to begin while we were there. After our meeting, we were walking out through the lobby. The wedding party was getting ready to begin the procession. James pushed me over to…
The holidays can be an agonizing ordeal for the young couple that has never navigated them together. What is meant to be a season of fun family celebrations often derails into a series of frustrating fiascos. Imagine these tension-building scenarios: You look forward to your first Thanksgiving together at home. You can’t wait to share…
Dr. Ron Hall has a reputation at Valley Forge Christian College in Phoenixville, Pa., and it has nothing to do with his work as Graduate Program Director. Word has it that if you’re headed toward marriage, he’ll be the one—as your premarital counselor—to slam on the brakes. Most people would forgo doing premarital counseling with…
Most couples that I see for counseling have not consistently dated in years. It’s an odd phenomenon that usually happens after the wedding; couples stop dating. The most common reasons I hear and see have to do with the physical proximity of living together, having a difficult time transitioning past the “I got what I…
