Marriage Humor
Found this on Shelley’s blog: Jack wakes up with a huge hangover after attending his company’s Christmas Party. Jack is not normally a drinker, but the drinks didn’t taste like alcohol at all. He didn’t even remember how he got home from the party. As bad as he was feeling, he wondered if he did [...]
Parenting
“Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children.” -Marilyn Penland
It’s All About Jesus
Still reading a bible that’s all about me… me… ME? Get the It’s All About Jesus Bible. You don’t need yet another one of those bibles that is just a little bit about Jesus. This bible is different: it’s ALL about Jesus.
Religious Commitment and Marriage
Glenn T. Stanton, writing for Focus on the Family, looks at factors that influence marital stability. Religious commitment, rather than mere religious affiliation, contributes to greater levels of marital success. Stanton quotes Scott Stanley, one of my favorite authors and a leading researcher in marital issues: Whether young or old, male or female, low-income or [...]
Train Up A Child
“Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” -Proverbs 22:6 (ESV) “To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a while.” -Josh Billings
Marriages and Weeds
I have a client I have seen off and on since he was divorced a few years ago. Today he came in and told me about his new marriage. He likes word pictures and speaks in metaphors; I suggested marriage is like tending a lawn. His new marriage is a fresh start like moving into [...]
Fatherhood
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys.” -Harmon Killebrew
Economics of Marriage
When men and women fail to form stable marriages, the first result is a vast expansion of government attempts to cope with the terrible social need that result. There is scarcely a dollar that the state and federal government spends on social programs that is not driven, in large part, by family fragmentation: crime, poverty, [...]
Foul Language
Recently Chuck Swindoll was dropped from the VCY Radio Network for Crude, Vulgar, From the GutterĀ Language. Some bloggers applauded the action, others were offended by the radio network, not by Chuck. Andrew, the Tall Skinny Kiwi, pointed out “offensive” is dependent upon the prevailing culture and changes over time. While Andrew’s argument makes sense [...]
Incompatibility
“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.” -Leo Tolstoy
