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…
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…
My beliefs about women are rooted in my childhood experiences, and those outdated beliefs form the programming that runs my internal computer. If you don’t fit into my Mom, Sister, or Grandma data set, I might not pay you much attention. Not because you are boring or don’t interest me, but mostly because you are…
I’m getting married in less than five months. Cake, dresses, colors, rings, vows, songs … you name it, I’m talking about — and planning for it. And all that marriage talk has got me babbling baby talk. And not the “Right after the ‘I do’s’ let’s start working on having a baby.” It’s more like…
