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…
I define addiction as an unfulfilling cycle of bad choices which keeps one from experiencing God’s best and ultimately leads to death. For romantic addicts, death means ultimate forfeiture of the very best marriage plans God has for one’s life. In simpler terms, someone who refuses to trust God to meet their needs in the…
Today is World AIDS Day. I found out about it this morning through a feature in the Chicago Tribune. In all honesty, I’m troubled to admit that the AIDS epidemic isn’t an issue I think about often. I looked up a few statistics on the UNAIDS World Aids Day Report 2011 and found both encouraging…
Too many unmarried Christians waste valuable time in bad relationships. Of course, most people involved in an unhealthy relationship won’t admit it. Instead, construing excuses to stay with Mr. or Miss Wrong, they actually convince themselves their not so good relationship is all right. Perhaps I’m describing you! If so, I hope what I’ve written…
Today, more than ever, marriages are threatened by extra-marital affairs. Such heartache is as old as history itself. The Bible is filled with accounts of those (including God’s own servants) who were lured into adultery. Indeed, King Solomon (whose father had the most famous affair of them all) wrote many of his Proverbs with the…
