Family Update Archives

My parents made plenty of mistakes. Yours did too. As a dad now with 4 kids, I've finally arrived at that place where I am more cognizant of the...

As Valentine's Day approaches, I like to take a good hard look at my “love life.” I consider how I’ve been loving my hubby, my family, friends and...

Want to mess up your marriage? Live separate financial lives.

My 5 year old son cried last week in bed because he was lonely. And I cried with him because I knew exactly what he was feeling...

When you interact with others at the office or the gathering place after work, what message do you send? Do you have the right boundaries?

Laying in the tent during another in our long line of horrible weather Boundary Waters canoe trips, I was angry...

There are times when we look at our marriages and silently think, “This so wasn’t part of the deal.” But in reality, it was and is.

More and more people seem to keep asking me about our story of fostering. I remember being on the other side, wondering how tough it would be to...

Brian Goins' book "Playing Hurt" shows you how to develop a winning marriage by being a husband who stays in the game with God.

Adoption was never plan B for God. It wasn't an alternative solution. It was plan A.

Sometimes the dream dies. Where do you go from there?

The other night I was tucking my kids into bed. I noticed my oldest had a glowing silly band on his wrist. Knowing that he would play with the...

Here are some reasons to hack it out on the days when being single sounds more appealing...

It’s a subtle change when a wife goes from enfolding her man in a warm hug the very instant he walks in the door to instead hiding in the bathroom...

I wanted out. I was lonely, starving for attention and there didn’t seem to be any benefit to being married...