Lisa Anderson is Director of Young Adults for Focus on the Family. She manages Boundless, Focus’ ministry for young adults, helping 20- and 30-somethings grow up, own their faith, date with purpose, and prepare for marriage and family. She is also the author of The Dating Manifesto: A Drama-Free Plan for Pursuing Marriage with Purpose….
Dear Future Husband, You do not complete me. And I do not complete you. As much as I would love for you to be Tom Cruise (plus Jesus, minus whatever religion he’s into now, the paparazzi, and subpar acting—is he really still making movies?!) in Jerry Maguire and have you burst through my door declaring…
Can you name the Old Testament passage for husbands? Wives have Proverbs 31 as a guiding chapter, but what do husbands have? I would like to make a nomination for “the husband chapter” of the Old Testament: Psalm 23. Psalm 23 is well-loved for its vivid imagery of a loving, faithful shepherd. But it also…
What is love? We ask the question during seminars but usually get blank stares. Not that people don’t know the answer, but they usually surmise (correctly) that we are up to something. Everyone has an idea of what love is; the more “enlightened” will launch into the Greek variations of love, but most people equate…
John came into marriage counseling ready to bolt from his relationship with his wife because he claimed either she never seriously listened to him or she dismissed the importance of his feelings about almost everything. “What’s the point of being married, if two people are merely living one person’s life!”, he said. His wife cried…
