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The Christian marriage advice space is filled with individuals presenting personal preferences as absolutes. Let’s take finances, for example. A while ago, I asked on my Facebook page how many people were advised to open joint bank accounts or merge their finances in some way. In the comments, many talked of joint bank accounts being…
I’ve been away from the blog, recovering from surgery and while away, someone left a comment under an older post on Instagram that got me thinking. Now, we can’t influence people who don’t want to wrestle with a different point of view. A part of me knows that. But another part really wants to convince…
Have you heard the saying, “Married people give up too easily”? Or its cousin, “Married Christians just need to trust God more?” Have you noticed how this duo often appears when discussing deeply problematic marriage situations? While not every “hard marriage” has dynamics of power and control (and some people end their marriage for reasons…
“Happiness is a choice. Just make the decision to be happy and your marriage will be the better for it.” I’ve heard countless times – from readers, books, sermons, and marriage influencers – that one of the most important decisions in marriage is the decision to be happy. The idea being that married people just…
Are men designed to obsess about sex? This week, I came across a post on Sheila Gregoire’s Facebook page where she was “fixing” a quote by popular marriage author Kevin Leman. The quote is from Leman’s book Sheet Music, where he writes, “Let’s talk about making Mr. Happy smile. Mr. Happy likes to be kissed.”…
What’s challenging about growing as a Christian is how our understanding and perception of who God is can be limited. Let me explain. We got handed a belief system. But asking questions and wrestling with those beliefs is kinda frowned upon. Unless you “wrestle” and remain in the same spot, that is. Our deeply held…