Making Peace with the Imperfect

It's a paradox of marriage that the strongest ones are those in which partners are simultaneously able to change to accommodate one another in some ...

The Joy of Marriage

When we look at the Song of Songs, we see the joy we're supposed to find in one another. That's the model we have to go by--not one of drudgery, ...

Hoping Your Spouse Reads Minds

When Christian musician Michael Card got married in 1982, he and Susan expected smooth sailing. But it wasn't long before they started running into ...

Love Despite the Odds

In 1995, Christopher Reeve, the "Superman" actor, fell from a horse in a riding accident that severed his spinal cord and paralyzed him from ...

Between the Two of Us...

One of the best things about our marriage is that neither of us has to be always right or always strong or always first or always smart, but between the ...

Love Requires More than Romance

A love which depends solely on romance, on the combustion of two attracting chemistries, tends to fizzle out. ... A long-term marriage has to move beyond ...

The Perfect Marriage

Charles Spurgeon describes the perfect marriage:

Their object in life is common. There are points where their affections so intimately united that none ...

It's His Marriage Too

God so cares about this enterprise we call "our" marriage that it might well be called "his" marriage, too; he is that involved--feeling ...

The Laboratory of Marriage

God made us all individuals. Then he made half of us male and the other half female. Then he created marriage. Unless you think this was a cosmic practical ...

The Core Necessities

The Bible's admonitions to mutual love and respect are the core necessities of marriage.