by Guest Contributor | Jul 24, 2014 | Uncategorized
“Mom, I’m done cleaning.” My son pulls my arm. “Is it good? Can I play Wii now?” Stumbling behind him, I fight my phone’s auto-correct to send off a coherent text. Even as I glance up and take a breath to launch my “You can do better than this” speech, my phone alerts...
by Jennifer Thorn | Jun 26, 2014 | Respect
Have you noticed that in many of our television shows the husband is portrayed as inept if not an outright fool? From The Flintstones, to Married with Children, to The Simpsons, to Home Improvement, to Phineas and Ferb and Jonny Test one could draw the conclusion that...
by Matthew L. Jacobson | Jun 25, 2014 | Uncategorized
Things are going well, but we’re more like business partners than husband and wife. We keep it together but it’s like we’re hardly even friends anymore. Life can turn into a grind, even for a great marriage. Our fast-paced lives are perfectly capable of edging out...
by Darlene Schacht | Jun 23, 2014 | Uncategorized
I enjoy marriage books, in fact I can’t seem to get enough of them. It’s a beautiful thing to be encouraged by other believers who have walked this path, and to glean encouragement from them that I can apply to my own life. But here’s the...
by Darlene Schacht | Jun 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
It was grade nine. There was one minute left in the game, and I was standing there holding the ball. Pivoting on one foot, I had a decision to make, do I go for the basket myself in hopes of winning the game for our team? Or do I throw it to Stacy who was frantically...