I get some pretty crazy emails. Some I sign up for and wish that I hadn’t, and others seem to filter into my inbox on their own. If you’re like me, perhaps you’ve been racked with guilt because you didn’t forward an email to 10 people within 30 seconds and therefore may be the cause of famine…
A young man arrived recently at my office in suicidal despair. Tim, a Christian, was distraught over a moral lapse he had promised himself would never happen. He and his fiancée, Elizabeth, had made a pact to avoid sexual involvement before marriage. But one night he stayed too late and the unthinkable happened. Consumed with…
“Georgia!” my father yelled. “If you don’t straighten out, we’re going to drop you off right there.” He pointed to the large sterile hospital-like building that they called the children’s home. “That’s where they put children like you.” I had been picking on my little brother as we rode in the backseat of the car….
If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.” I repeated this to myself in complete silence for more than an hour as I sat on the couch next to a brand-new messenger bag and a confused fiancé. I couldn’t believe my fiancé, Michael, would buy himself something that, to me, seemed so…
Successful marriage consistently calls for both the humble admission of error when wrongdoing has occurred and the mutual commitment to grow in unfamiliar ways. Nothing destroys these two pillars of healthy relationships more quickly than persistent defensiveness and an unforgiving, critical spirit. These are the heart-hardening factors that eventually destroy the elasticity of creative conflict…
