Tag: marriage
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Permission Granted: 4 Reasons Why Unity in Your Marriage is Better than Permission
Permission is a funny thing. Permission, defined, is authorization or consent. Sadly enough, this is how a lot of marriages work. The reason why marriages work that way, is there is a misunderstanding of unity and Lordship. One of my favorite scriptures comes out of Acts 17:28., “in him (Jesus) we live and move and…
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Broken Trust: 8 Ways to rebuild trust back into your marriage.
He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds Psalm 147:3 Trust is a necessary element and is the foundation of every healthy relationship. In fact, trust is the security that makes intimacy possible in marriage. Like an organism, it must be nurtured and not ignored. My dad taught me years ago. “Trust is like…
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A “Yesterday Marriage”: 5 ways to help your marriage to not live off of re-runs.
Of all of our differences, Anne and I don’t really walk in agreement with the concept of re-runs. We both love shows and enjoy watching them together. But re-runs are a different story. I can only think of one show series in the past 17 years of marriage in which she’ll entertain the re-runs. But other than that,…
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Who Needs Sex? 7 ways to sabotage your marital sex life
It’s always been one of my favorite stories and it was just about the only form of premarital prep that my dad had before marrying my mom. Right before the ceremony, they began to throw a football together. My Uncle David looks at my father and says, “Harold, how do you think God thinks about sex?” I’m…
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What to not forget about on Valentine’s Day! 1 Thing I want you to remember about February 14!
A week ago, I preached a message about rest. In that message, I had made a statement about the issues of vacations and sabbaticals. Would the urgency of vacations and sabbaticals, as well as the length of them, be necessary if we knew how to rest on a consistent, healthy basis? It doesn’t mean I don’t…
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Brownie Points: 4 Reasons why they may not be good for your marriage.
Cards. Candy, Socks (one of my favorite gifts). Flowers. They’re all those things that we purchase and hear someone say, “Somebody’s gonna get some brownie points for that.” In the completely accurate source of all knowledge, Wikipedia, Brownie Points are given a phenomenal definition. They’re a hypothetical social currency, which can be acquired by doing good…
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Warning Shots: 10 subtle actions your marriage needs to pay attention to.
You’ve opened my ears so I can listen. Psalm 40:6 I’m an aficionado of military movies. And there’s certain lines and terms that you can count on hearing frequently. For some reason, especially in movies involving ships, you’ll hear the term: warning shot. A warning shot is a military and/or police term describing an intentionally harmless…
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Affairs and fruit.
“I do not expect that we will ever have serious problems in our marriage.” It’s one of the statements in the premarital counseling questioner that I have couples respond to. Most of the time, one person will disagree and the partner will agree. I am ALWAYS fascinated to hear the reasonings of their answers. I…
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What my parents didn’t teach me about marriage – Part 3
Two weeks ago, we started this new blog series that focused upon the things my parents didn’t teach me based upon some of the issues we see today. Again, please don’t take any of the following blogs as a guilt trip to those who have struggled or have made mistakes. I do not elevate anyone, including…
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What my parents didn’t teach me about marriage – Part 2
Last week, we started this new blog series that focused upon the things my parents didn’t teach me based upon some of the issues we see today. Again, please don’t take any of the following blogs as a guilt trip to those who have struggled or have made mistakes. I do not elevate anyone above Christ.…
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