FEATURED GUEST: Mark Driscoll If you’re married, you’ll have conflict. You cannot avoid conflict because marriage is an unconditional commitment to an imperfect person, and both you and your spouse are imperfect people. As my wife Grace and I write in our book, Real Marriage, 1 sinner plus 1 sinner cannot equal 0 conflict. Every…
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…
Often people who find themselves in a bad or destructive relationship struggle to see the signs that are in fact…in plain sight. That’s why after it all falls apart you’ll hear them say statements like, “I didn’t see the signs,” or “If I just would have known.” So in the spirit of enlightenment, I want…
“Do you (insert bride’s name here) take this man along with his 47 t-shirts, his pocket knife collection, and that ugly, ratty football jersey he got from the quarterback of his favorite team?” “Yeah. I think so.” “And do you (insert groom’s name here) take this woman along with her flowery bedspread, gajillion throw pillows…
I’m sure you’ll agree that trusting God in the midst of His No’s is not easy! Don’t ya just hate it when you have a relationship all worked out in your mind, but it never manifests the way you dreamed it should. What’s worse is when you’ve actually started dating someone, and after having given…
