Marriage Archives

God wants us to love, cherish, and enjoy our spouses. But at what point does our love become an idol?

We were just another one of those “keen Christian couples” that are the heart of church life. You can imagine my shock when my husband told me that...

Many times we don’t treat our spouses with the basic courtesy that we would show to someone we had just met.

Is it possible that we are using fallible human interpretations to hold people to standards that God never intended?

Your husband struggles with attack daily. He may not talk with you about it, but the struggle is real.

Is faithfulness to a spouse the only issue that should prevent us from allowing our gazes to linger?

While it is so tempting to embrace magical thinking, it is overly hopeful and lacks the grounding necessary to really face problems and solve them....

Unlike failing, where a man is able to pick himself up by the bootstraps and try again, being a failure has a lastingness to it—and can become a...

Praying for someone who is against you not only blesses them, but leads you towards healing as well.

Several years into our journey of parenting three small children, my wife Mary and I decided to take a long walk together, because there were some...

To the many folks who have said to me, “God told me to marry him/her,” I want to cry out, “No, he didn’t.”

After an affair, the offending spouse must repent before God. But after repentance, should you confess the adultery to your spouse?

Like any healthy relationship, a good marriage requires work. No matter how compatible a couple may be or how in love they feel, there will be...

Our words have the power to hurt and wound or heal others. Scripture is replete with admonitions to be extremely careful with our speech.

Marriage will not always be what we expected or dreamed of, but marriage by God’s design and for God’s purposes is good—very good!