What is the biggest influence on your marriage? For those Christians who are reading this – I’m going to go ahead and assume answer #1 will be individual time in the Word and prayer and the fighting of sin. That’s a given. Ok – so what is the second biggest influence in your marriage. As [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Book Review: The Shepherd Leader at Home (Witmer/Crossway)
I love having the privilege to pray for my husband. It is something we as wives must do EVERY DAY . I need help in having that faithfulness, especially now since having a baby. I like to read books along with the Bible that teach about his role as a husband or elder. This book, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »A Wife’s Idol: Her Husband’s Happiness
A hot cup of morning coffee? 20 minutes alone when he comes home from work in the evenings? His favorite dessert for his birthday? A night out with the boys? A Saturday alone to watch all the college football games and finish it up with all the recaps on SportsCenter? Do you know what [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Media and Marriage
Books. Chick Flix. Television. Advertisements. Blogs. Magazines. We are bombarded with media no matter if we have a cable subscription or not. Checking out buying groceries we are enticed to look at half-dressed women screaming to us that “your husband would rather look at me than look at you or sleep with you.” Or there [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Dan(vers) in Real Life (part 1)
This past Sunday a new “Sunday School” class started at my church on biblical manhood and womanhood. One of the elders who is teaching the class introduced everyone to the Danvers Statement. You may be wondering what the Danvers Statement is and what in the world it has to do with your life. You can [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Wives vs Dogs
The old saying goes “a dog is a man’s best friend” – but is a dog a better spouse? The new country song hitting the airwaves, climbing the charts, might make men reconsider marrying, and encourage them to go down to their county’s SPCA branch instead. Curly-haired, country hit singer, Billy Currington has another winner [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Living the Gospel: Marriage, Adoption, and the Rest of Life
This is me thinking aloud… There are some focuses right now in Christianity/churches that focus on being living, breathing examples of the gospel. These focuses are biblical and needed, and true. There is absolutely nothing wrong with these emphasises. One is marriage and the other is adoption. Marriage, for some (and I don’t believe this [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Redeeming Relationships: God, Marriage, and Family: Randy Stinson
I had the privilege of hearing my boss speak at Gilead Baptist Church this past Sunday night. Gilead is starting a Gilead U on marriage (in the spring) and parenting (in the fall). It is to help their church see the importance of these two relationships, how they influence the church (and vice versa) and [...]
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Best Posts from 2008
Finally getting around to bringing over more of the old posts. Many of you have not been reading this since 2008, so this gives you a glimpse into what was going on on the blog back then. Enjoy. Hungry Adulterers: Thoughts on a JD Greear sermon My Favorite Chili My Go-To hummus recipe Ruth – [...]
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