Category: Hope For Your Marriage
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How Can I Know My Future?
I’ve noticed some Facebook posts advertising a way to find out what’s going to happen in 2016. Other posts give you a special word for the coming year. I probably wasn’t supposed to, but I did that one twice. My first word was FUTURE. The second one was JOY. I’m not sure what I’m…
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Pursuing Happiness?
If happiness is your aim, you can end up at a place called Ruin. If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a thousand times, “God wants me to be happy.” Really? Since when? And where is that scripture found in the Bible? I’ll admit the word “happy” is mentioned approximately 25 times in the…
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A Nasty Word
Did you know there is a nasty word in the bible? Really, there is. For you folks who’ve memorized the Authorized Version, no, it’s not the word you’re thinking of. The word speaks of pain, anguish, betrayal, brokenness, mistrust, disorder, and confusion. It mocks the faithful, steals from the innocent, curses the efforts of the…
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An Open Letter To Adulterers
There are approximately 56 million couples in America. 112 million men and women who were joined together as husband and wife to begin their own miniature civilizations. That number represents about one third of this nation’s population. After reading a number of different statistics on various websites, and after discovering that an estimated 50% of…
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Pornography – A Feel Good Killer
There are many things in this world which stimulate the human senses; things that make a body say, “aaahhh, how nice!” Good things and things not so good. Sinful things. Yes, sin can be, and usually is, pleasurable. That’s why it’s so popular. It’s why you and I do sinful things. We enjoy the good…
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How Do People Fall Out Of Love?
Recently my wife and I were visiting with some friends, discussing how sad it was that some of our mutual friends divorced after many years of marriage. Christian friends. Christians in pastoral ministry. Close friends. It breaks our hearts. As we talked, their seventeen year old daughter asked us a question; a very good question.…
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The Wandering Heart
Infidelity. Cheating. Affair. Adultery. Not uncommon words in our society. Possibly not uncommon in our life experience. One set of statistics I looked at claimed 30 to 60 percent of marriages have at least one partner who has been involved in an extramarital affair. Extramarital. Even the word doesn’t make sense. Marriage is a covenant…
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Sex and Love
SEX. It’s used to sell clothes, coffee, cars, and sometimes certain celebrities. Or maybe magazines, movies, and makeup. Some folks just plain use it. To some, it’s a pry bar, others as a treat for good behavior. Kind of like training a dog to learn a trick; once they get it down they are rewarded…
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An Adulterous Affair
“It just happened. One day I was deeply in love with my wife, and the next day I found myself in bed with another woman.” “I don’t know what happened!” “I wasn’t flirting. I’m just an innocent victim.” “My husband is never around. Even when he’s home, he’s got some stupid ball game on. But…
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An Emotional Safety Harness
Emotions run wild at times, don’t they? That is, unless you have some kind of safety harness on your emotions. Out of control emotions, regardless of the reason, can do much damage to a relationship. So what can a couple use for their “safety harness”? 3 things. 1. Trust – affirm your love to…
Jan Grace 