Let’s start with hot sauce, shall we? If the question arose in the aisles of Harris Teeter whether we should buy Texas Pete’s or Frank’s Red Hot, my husband Ted quickly answered, “Both/and.” After all, you could never have too much hot sauce, right? Right. It didn’t take long for me to realize that Ted…
During this past week I was going through some slides that my dad had taken whilst he and my mom were living in Nigeria. My mom and dad had gone out there, from South Africa, to work as missionaries with the Sudan United Mission in the early 1960’s. In fact, I was born in Nigeria…
There is an ‘80s song that you may have heard of called “Love is a Battlefield.” We usually don’t equate the idea of a romantic relationship with war, but given how popular that song was (and still is), there may be some truth to this analogy. When you put any two people in the same…
Gandalf said to Frodo, All we have to decide is what to do with the time given to us.” JRR Tolkien Like Frodo’s powerlessness over the growing evil in Middle-earth, we often find ourselves wishing we could control the times of our lives. But all we can do is use the time given to us –…
How does an adult male become a masculine man? How does true masculinity impact a marriage? In the beginning, “God created humans in his own image. He created them to be like himself. He created them male and female” (Genesis 1:27, ERV). Apparently, our human design as male or as female reflects something important about God. We…
