Q: My fiancé always checks out girls while I am with him. Not every girl but when it happens, I feel like I am disappearing and very insulted. Should I break up the relationship? A: The choice to break up the relationship depends on how he responds when you talk to him about this issue. He…
Over 14 years later, I can still remember the day—during our pre-marital counseling—where I got the best marriage advice I ever received. We had just taken our personality inventory, and neither of us had seen it, but the man (we’ll call him Reverend Henry) who was leading our pre-marital counseling had. And he wasn’t impressed….
Looking back over the past year is one of my favorite traditions. I get to remember the ups and downs, the growth that occurred, and see what themes continually show up. This is the first year that I’ve applied this to my professional life, probably because it’s the first full year I’ve had as a…
I never make New Year’s resolutions. It seems counterproductive to wait for a flip of the calendar to begin making changes in my life that I have known about all along. It’s like a man declaring that he’ll start his workout program on the magic Monday—the one that never arrives. Or the student who plans…
When I boarded the international flight as a naïve, newly graduated cross-cultural missions major, little did I know just how steeped in cross-cultural communication my life was to become. At the time, I was eager to spend six months serving the Lord on a college campus in Cape Town, South Africa—more than 8,000 miles away from…
