Tag Archives: marriage

Dawn of the unwed

7/25/2008 – 1:23 am

Friend, have you had no date of late? Or have you had dates galore but found them each a bore? Were you looking for Mr or Mrs Right, only to have to tell ‘em to fly a kite!
Did you think you’d met “the one”? Was the first date oh such fun? Full of laughter, not [...]

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“I will be with you”

7/11/2008 – 7:45 pm

Is not our greatest consolation in trials and afflictions Christ himself? Indeed he is. As the prophet Isaiah says (43:2): “When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not [...]

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Like a horse and carriage

7/1/2008 – 11:42 am

Helpful read for those inclined: Steve Hays on love and marriage.
Update: archshrk’s wife shares her story.

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Congratulations

3/17/2008 – 8:08 am

Congratulations to Joshua and Tiffany White.

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When Sinners Say “I Do”

2/1/2008 – 12:00 am

Pastor Dave Harvey has a series of YouTube videos on his book, When Sinners Say “I Do”: Discovering the Power of the Gospel for Marriage. Start here for the introduction to the book. Then go here (1), here (2), here (3), here (4), here (5), here (6), here (7), and finally here (8).
Update: [...]

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Culture changes, human nature does not

12/5/2007 – 7:53 am

From a Michigan State study about people having sex with friends sans commitment, as reported by FOXnews:
Worse yet, the open communication once cherished by two buddies, now FWBs, breaks down. Any talk beyond the titillating becomes taboo, with lovers often afraid or unable to talk about the relationship itself.
Suddenly, bearing the scarlet letter of a [...]

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Divorce

10/9/2007 – 12:16 pm

I always get a little spooked when somebody says that after they read the rabbis, they understood the New Testament better. You can mean that in a good way or a bad way; after you’ve had a lot of the bad way, I think being a little gun-shy is understandable.
That said, this article on [...]

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Meltdowns

8/27/2007 – 4:20 pm

Update: changed from an “aside” to a full-blown post.
Do female church leaders of various kinds fall in groups of threes? Maybe. Today I’ve heard about Mother Teresa, Paula White, and Juanita Bynum. (I know, “fall” in the usual sense doesn’t apply to any of them, but it says something when divorce [...]

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