If you’re like most young adults today, you want to marry one day and maybe soon, but it just doesn’t seem to be happening for you yet. But you do have someone in your life and you’re wondering if moving in together might help get you closer to “I do”. You are not alone. Cohabitation…
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…
Now that I have your attention, the full heading should read: SEX IS GREAT… WITHIN THE CONFINES OF MARRIAGE. One of my favorite bumper stickers reads: There are some really good practical reasons why sex should only take place within the boundaries of marriage. In 1 Corinthians 7:9 the apostle Paul is speaking to the unmarried…
We’d been married only a few months when I realized something was wrong. Physical relationships outside of marriage had been my status quo for years. Honestly, I assumed that part of marriage would be easiest for me. So I was totally shocked when I shut down. And my husband? Completely hurt. Neither of us knew what…
I awoke on a Saturday morning in March 2008, alone in my bed, my wedding only weeks away. My waking mind soon scurried with wedding plans until it drifted to a familiar longing, my desire to marry my best friend, to wake up next to him, to never again say goodnight and part ways. But…
