Emphasizing the Wedding Day over the Marriage

Even in the midst of an economic crisis, the average couple spends $3,215 on an engagement ring and $2,036 on wedding bands. Author Laura Vanderkam uses ...

Why Actor Patrick Swayze's Marriage Succeeded

Actor Patrick Swayze, who died in September 2009 of pancreatic cancer, wrote a memoir with his wife Lisa Niemi, and said this:

The one thing I realized ...

Dealing with the Cow-pie-ridden Fields of Marriage

In his book This Momentary Marriage: A Parable of Permanence, pastor and author John Piper offers a memorable analogy for dealing with the highs and lows ...

Wife Donates Kidney, Saves Marriage

After ten years of marriage, Cindy and Chip Altemos were in the long process of getting a divorce. The proverbial baggage they brought from previous marriages ...

Prime Meridian Is a Metaphor for the Bible

The Royal Observatory at Greenwich, England is famous as the location of the prime meridian. It is a remarkable location. People often take pictures of ...

Augustine: Scriptures Are Our Letter from Home

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

Marriage Is a One-sided Covenant

Al Janssen writes in "The Marriage Masterpiece":

I am struck, as I reflect on the vows Jo and I exchanged at our wedding, by the one-sidedness ...

Keeping Promises

Writer and speaker Lewis Smedes says:

Yes, somewhere people still make and keep promises. They choose not to quit when the going gets rough because they ...

Rabbi's Opinion of Jesus

In Newsweek, Rabbi Jacob Neusner writes about how he would respond to Jesus had he met him personally 2,000 years ago:

I can see myself not only meeting ...

When a Promise Is Broken

When I took the job as head football coach at the University of Colorado in 1982, I made a solemn promise: I told everybody that with me, God was first, ...