I grew up with 4 sisters and prided myself on my ability to speak respectfully to women. I wasn’t a “player,” but knew how to observe and understand women better than most of my peers. I had a lot of friends of the opposite sex and always felt like I related better with them than…
Don’t take that tone with me!” No, I’m not talking to my teenage daughter. My husband and I are attending a Sunday school class that is using the Laugh Your Way to a Better Marriage curriculum. Within the first five minutes of the first session, the room was alive with laughter. Husbands and wives chuckled both…
Men, fill in this blank: “Women are _________.” Too broad? Try this one: “American women are ________.” Still nothing? “Southern women are ________.” “Women within a 50-mile radius are __________.” If you can fill in any of those blanks accurately you are a smarter man than I. The best I can do are a few…
The best and worst (read: most squirm-inducing) part of premarital counseling was when our pastor asked us to read Ephesians 5:22-33 and explain what it meant to us. If you are engaged or newly wed, or a woman, I don’t need to tell you this is the passage that begins, “Wives submit to your husbands….”…
We recently had the opportunity to interview Jonna Chizik, wife of Auburn University football coach Gene Chizik. Jonna shares about her and Gene’s dating story (they met as kids!), marriage, faith and experience living in the public eye. Don’t miss her encouraging words for you at the end of the interview! Start Marriage Right: What is…
