Almost everything about the marriage between a man and a woman is under frontal assault. Whether it concerns the ease of dissolving relationships, the gay movement’s war on the gender composition of marriage, the massive rise of co-habitation rates, the increasing frequency of infidelity, or even the issue of how the institution of marriage is…
Relationships and biblical sexual morality have long been in a state of tension, a fact which is every bit as evident in contemporary society as it was in the first century. Never one to back away from a controversial question, the Apostle Paul admonished believers that, if they “cannot contain themselves (sexually), let them marry,…
“You never really listen to me; what I say just doesn’t matter…you only hear what’s in your head!” an exasperated wife said to her husband. Does that complaint sound familiar? It certainly does to many people. Indeed, it’s the sort of frustration that drives a lot of unhappiness among couples. If you want a successful…
Recently, I asked the husband of a young couple seeking to improve their marriage, “Do you ever have a warm thought, even a fleeting one, about your wife when you’re not with her?” He replied (as I suspected he would), “Yes, of course I do”. Then I asked him if he had ever reported those…
There is a cultural upheaval occurring in our nation, the likes of which have been completely foreign to the roots of this country’s foundation. Likewise, Christian values and beliefs are under assault as never before. The very definition of marriage itself is undergoing dramatic change as part of a rapidly metastasizing secularism that claims that…
