A profound mystery of marriage Paul wrote about in Ephesians 5 is that two distinct individuals become one flesh in the marriage relationship. One flesh means that husband and wife give up the right to do whatever they please; they choose to live within the marriage relationship and share their whole life with each other….
After you say “I do” on your wedding day, you begin to see some of your worst qualities that you never even knew existed. I have always known I was a super organized person and slightly “type A.” What I didn’t know was how controlling I can be sometimes without even realizing it. Just the…
The last time I wrote, I posed this question: Wouldn’t it be nice if our first inclination was to love our spouse in the way he or she needed to be loved? Let’s probe that a bit deeper. First, wouldn’t if be nice if our first inclination was to love another? Secondly, wouldn’t it be…
There are two questions we can ask within marriage that will take us to two entirely different dimensions. We have to choose which dimension we want to live in. The two questions are these: How can I bless you?” Or: How can I get my own way?” If we live in the second dimension (“How…
