any marriage is fixable

any marriage is fixable/salvageable with the right spirit and in the right power (II Peter 1:3).
check out this story:
Al added, “We kept drifting apart. I knew what I was doing was wrong; I was too proud to ask for help.”
After a brief pause, I quietly asked, “So are you guys going to call it quits [...]

Driscoll coming to Austin

The Resurgence Blog is and has been in the blogroll. I encourage you to check it regularly. Lots of good articles and series by Acts 29 church planters all over the country.
Recently, Mark Driscoll announced that he and his lovely wife were coming to Hill Country Bible Church here in Austin to talk [...]

wedding yesterday

the daughter of a good friend of ours was married yesterday.

it was an outdoor wedding at Kindred Oaks in Leander/Georgetown/way north area. It was lovely and fun. the weather cooperated in a big way and it wasn’t too hot.

a wife’s submission

here is the personal story of a former feminist atheist who eventually converted to catholicism learning to embrace the leadership of her husband in the home.

There has also been a part of my conversion on this issue that cannot be explained in terms of logic and reason. It’s nothing I could prove to a skeptic, [...]

reality of marriage

Challies put up an article on Monday just after his eleventh wedding anniversary that was a very real look at marriage through the device of wanting to give his younger newly married self some counseling.
the whole thing is good, but I thought this part was especially helpful because so many people have unrealistic ideas of [...]

Marriage

what is the point of marriage? If the only point of marriage is to be the highest expression of romantic love, then evangelical opposition to homosexual marriage is just mean. It would be mean to say to some people that their love is unworthy of expression in marriage while other people get the [...]

rebuilding a marriage after an affair

here is another Piper answer. this one regarding what to do to rebuild a marriage after one of the couple has had an affair. Tough timely stuff.

HT vitamin z

who do you trust? part III

all right, now let’s go back where we started. In John 10:10, Jesus contrasts himself and his mission with the thief.
The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy. Jesus came to bring abundant life.
and here are we sheep in the middle. we have a choice to make.
do [...]

who do you trust? part II

earlier we talked about God’s thoughts on divorce and what Jesus had to say. Jesus proves his bona fides to us in his instructions because he is the good shepherd who laid down his life for us. We thus are forced to believe that he has our best interests at heart when he tells us [...]

who do you trust?

Jesus said in John 10:10 that the thief came only to steal kill and destroy. By contrast, his purpose was to bring life and that life “abundantly.”
Jesus goes on in John 10 to assure us that he is a good shepherd. The proof that he is a good shepherd with the sheep’s best interest [...]

marriage links

Jonathan Dodson has a great roundup of links to marriage resources. Go check them out.

intimacy and ownership

Challies points to a post by John Piper regarding I Corinthians 7:3-5.
here is the passage:
3 The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband. 4 For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have [...]

Paul Tripp on marriage

Paul Trip has a new conference DVD out on marriage called “What Did You Expect?”
here is a video of excerpts. It looks quite good. Justin Taylor has more links to various related materials including links to free downloads of the leader’s guide and the discussion guide.

This Momentary Marriage

I read This Momentary Marriage by John Piper earlier this year. It was an incredible book. Everybody should read it whether they are married or single.
at the link above you can download the book for free in pdf form. Here is the direct link to the download. It is [...]

different perspectives

from Vitamin Z, here is John Piper pointing out the difference in perspectives.

discussion

I don’t how many of you have noticed the discussion that has been going on in comments to this post, but I encourage everyone to take some time and go check it out.
I have a some questions though for everybody:
Is pregnancy and childbirth the same thing as giving up a kidney for another [...]

road trip listening

I just downloaded all nine of the messages in Mark Driscoll’s Peasant Princess series. I figured we are going to be spending some time in the car over the next week or so and might as well have something useful to listen to with our teenagers.
If you don’t know what this Driscoll series is [...]

Fireproof’s review by the NYT

surprisingly positive.
“Fireproof” may not be the most profound movie ever made, but it does have its commendable elements, including that rarest of creatures on the big (or small) screen: characters with a strong, conservative Christian faith who don’t sound crazy.
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Only at the end do the filmmakers get heavy-handed. Until then, though, this is a decent [...]

fireproof

Julie and I and some friends of ours went to see this movie last night. It was really good. Not in the usual way. There wasn’t any great acting accomplishment and the script was kind of wooden. But the story was absolutely true to life. The review I link above [...]

more on marriage

This quick post is an update to the one below it to give a little more context.
The angst described in this article has been felt by every person married more than a week. That is why the article strikes such an emotional chord. The very real presence of ebbs and flows of happiness [...]

one of the saddest things I have read

If you want to see “the Lie” in action then read this article. It is an offering from Oprah.com.
Here is a peek or two or four:
I contemplate divorce every day. It tugs on my sleeve each morning when my husband, Will, greets me in his chipper, smug morning-person voice, because after 16 years of [...]

marriage

Julie and I went up to Irving, Texas yesterday (home of America’s team) for the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Lois and Ted.

Lois is Julie’s dad’s big sister. Julie’s mom and dad will have been married fifty-three years in a couple of weeks.

my parents have been married forty-six years (I think. mom, is this [...]

happiness

I added a page that I wrote a while back about Happiness in a marriage. The tab is to the left of this.