If I had to boil down the lessons my husband and I have learned while striving to persevere in family worship, I’d suggest five key principles that have made the biggest difference to us.
I’m so thankful my husband began family worship in our home so many years ago! The transition was hard in many ways. My proverbial gears were…
Do any other wives out there have husbands who will sometimes privately mull over an idea, decide to go for it, and then excitedly announce the…
I haven’t much time today, I don’t have a post pre-scheduled, and it’s already late, so I will keep this short. Looking again at Richard Baxter’s…
In the last post, I discussed an illustration Richard Baxter made about lack of love in marriage. He compared marriage to a human body, and lack…
Let’s look at last week’s quote from Richard Baxter again today, and think more about his comparison of the human body to the marriage relationship. Baxter…
I have so, so many excerpts and links compiled to share on Marriage Mondays! I haven’t been able to post regularly, though I would really like…
Recently Tim Challies linked to this article titled The Key to a Strong Marriage. I had earmarked it to read later, finally read it yesterday, and…
Kim posted recently at Out of the Ordinary about how understanding the concept of God-given vocation is a help to women in understanding and finding contentment…
Monday night is “date night” at our house. I didn’t have a complete post ready in advance for Marriage Monday this week. I just spent the…
It’s true that when we love our husbands, we love them even in the worst times. We don’t always feel like loving them. It’s also true…
Setting aside Bunyan this week, I’d like to share something my husband and I read together and discussed this evening. In Chapter 5 of his book…
I adore reading the works of John Bunyan! His allegories are both captivating and moving, always pointing the reader towards Christ. Bunyan’s metaphors illustrate the truths…
I’ve had trouble keeping up on Marriage Mondays for the last while, but I’m going to try to restart the series and at least get something…
Love. It’s probably one of the most discussed, most romanticized, most difficult, and most misunderstood concepts. Volumes have been written about it – fact and fiction,…
Good morning! I hope everyone had a safe and blessed weekend. I have a number of irons in my fire, but I was able to round…
{A guest post by Jennifer Allen} When the new year rings in my husband and I like to sit down together and write goals for the…
Bill Elliff shares a powerful article over at Family Life ministries, explaining 8 common lies that will destroy our marriage if we buy into them: Imagine…
A while back I posted a brief excerpt on reasons to continue in marriage, even when it’s hard. I shared it because I was touched and…
On my heart and in my prayers today are several couples very dear to me who are struggling in their marriages. Sometimes it’s so miserable, so…
After posting the article about marital love earlier today, I saw on Facebook that the marriage book I had mentioned – What Did You Expect? by…
I wasn’t raised in a beautifully ideal home. Growing up I received many conflicting images of marital “love”, and I left home with a firm cynical…
The truth about womanhood and marriage has been disintegrating in our country. Until recent years, I didn’t have a clue what true Biblical womanhood was supposed…
