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 […]