The above unattributed quotation, like most popular sentiments, is easier to explain rhetorically than to live readily–it is easier to talk about the foundation than to build it. No matter how true the quotation may be, the best our post-Christian culture seems to be able to offer marriage is the same distorted rhetorical fruit that…
I remember the first time. Tears streamed down my cheeks. I was twenty-three and had been sexually active since I was fifteen, but this was the first time I’d had sex as a married woman. As I lay there, tears rolling, I realized that God was in this space. He delighted in what was happening…
A Husband’s Random Thoughts on Fifty Shades of Grey I’m not into creating lists of “do’s” and “don’ts” that aren’t in Scripture. If anything, the Bible is almost scandalously silent about such lists within marriage. It’s not my intent to disparage any appropriate act that a husband and wife enjoy in their private moments. Yet…
It was the perfect setting for a romantic dinner … a dimly-lit restaurant, heaping plates of pasta, soft music playing in the background … but my boyfriend had not been the one to ask me out. Sitting across from me at our table for two was one of my closest female friends, someone I had…
Last month, my husband and I celebrated five years of marriage. Instead of spending unnecessary funds on a three course meal at a five-star restaurant right before the holidays, I asked if we could just spend a simple evening with dinner and a movie. My mother-in-law was gracious enough to watch our “little man” (who…
