New Dad’s Top 10

My two oldest daughters are pregnant, so Robyn and I will become grandparents this year! I can’t help thinking back twenty-nine years ago to when we became parents for the first time. The picture below is us with our oldest daughter, Rachel, when she was a couple days old. I remember being amazed they actually […]

The Marriage Experiment

My latest book, “The Marriage Experiment: a 30-day intimate adventure” released this week. It’s not a book to simply read. It’s a hands-on (in more ways that one), activity-oriented experience to strengthen the spiritual, emotional and sexual bonds between you. Click here to go to Amazon. As with any experiment, there’s a hypothesis. So here’s […]

The Decision That Changed My Marriage

Do you ever reflect on decisions you’ve made and only realize in hindsight how critical they were? Or how many lives were effected? Or how decisions made by others significantly impacted your life? Your choice of where to go to college or which major to pursue set you on a particular course in life. The […]

The Intimate Evening Planning Guide

If you’re married and would like a free copy of my latest book, “The Intimate Evening Planning Guide,” I’m offering it for free this week on Amazon. Click here to get your copy. This offer is good until Friday, January 23, 2015. If you like it, I’d really appreciate it if you left a review on Amazon. Also feel free to let your friends know.

One other thought related to marriage…if you feel like you and your spouse have drifted apart and no longer feel connected or if you’re “just stuck” and are having trouble moving forward in your relationship, let me encourage you to take advantage of my marriage coaching process. You can learn more by clicking here.

 

When the Heart is Overloaded

  I’ll confess, I don’t know much about electricity. Although I guess I know enough to understand you don’t mess around with it. That’s why I shut off the breaker whenever I’m doing anything more involved than changing a light bulb, which admittedly, isn’t very often. I also know when something won’t turn on, it’s […]

When the Waiting Doesn’t End

What are you waiting for? A spouse? A baby? A job? A restored relationship with a child? Results of a medical test? Healing? There’s nothing easy about waiting. Especially when it feels unfair. When the waiting wasn’t brought on by anything you did or didn’t do. Do you remember the story of Joseph, Jacob’s youngest […]

What Have You Been Entrusted With?

Near the end of his three-year ministry, Jesus was teaching His disciples about how the Kingdom of Heaven operates. In Matthew 25, He illustrates it by comparing it to a man who goes on a long trip. Before he leaves, he calls together three of his servants and gives each of them a sum of […]

50 Ways to Slowly Kill Your Marriage

Are you contributing to the health or death of your marriage? Would your spouse agree? Are you sure? Sadly, many husbands and wives have no idea they are slowly killing their marriages. And often they don’t find out until it’s too late. Most couples want a better marriage. They just don’t always act like it. […]

Marital Satisfaction Formula

There’s only one relationship on earth that God compares to His relationship with the church. It’s not the parent-child relationship. It’s not the love between siblings or best friends. It’s certainly not the relationship between a boss and an employee. It’s marriage. The relationship between one man and one woman. For a lifetime. As the […]

Three Words That Will Transform Your Marriage: Be, Receive, Deny

When I perform a wedding ceremony, I tell couples that remembering and applying three words–be, receive, deny–will guarantee a great marriage. It begins with choosing to be the right person. Before we’re married, we worry about finding the right person. Once we’re married and things get hard, we start wondering if we’ve married the right […]