Marriage Monday – Little Things Really Do Mean A Lot

Want this button? I don’t know who wrote or sang this song originally, but it’s been around a long time. If you have a source for mp3’s, you can probably find the song on the web. I’m a little mp3 challenged, so I’ll just include the lyrics here. Little Things Mean a Lot Send me [...]

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Men: Overcoming Visual Temptation, Your Heart

You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eye ~ Song of Songs 4:9 Thus far in our discussion, we have briefly touched on the first two perimeters of defense in the war on sexual impurity: your eyes and your mind. Today we touch [...]

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Men: Overcoming Visual Temptation, The Eyes

Look to the Lord and his strength ~ Psalm 105:4 In yesterday’s post Men: Overcoming Visual Temptation, An Introduction, three “perimeters of defense” were presented in order to wage war on the enemy of visual temptation that leads to sexual impurity. … your objective in the war against lust is to build three perimeters of [...]

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Marriage Monday – You Have My Heart

A special thanks to e-mom for hosting Marriage Monday and for early posting of the topic How to Celebrate February 14 Every Day of the Year. You see, I’m a muller. I might have an idea for a post or a writing, often in the wee hours of the morning when brain activity seems to [...]

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What if We Gave All We Had for God?

In When I Relax I Feel Guilty, Tim Hansel includes this writing from Wilbur Reese entitled “$3.00 Worth of God.” I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please, not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. [...]

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What If … You Lived Out Unconditional Respect?

A little trick I learned in high school is to turn to the dictionary when I don’t know exactly where to begin writing. “Webster’s defines … as” was often used to start English Literature papers, and is going to be used to start this post as well. Webster’s defines respect (verb tense) as to hold [...]

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30 Day Husband Encouragement Challenge: Day 30

(Song of Solomon 5:16b)(Prov. 27:12) Friends can be completely honest with each other, but friendships are strained when truth is not spoken in love. How are you speaking to your beloved? Are you so “used” to him that you don’t appreciate the wonder of his friendship? That is your challenge today. Is your sweetheart your [...]

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30 Day Husband Encouragement Challenge: Day 29

A prudent man foresees evil, and hides himself; the simple pass on, and are punished. (Prov. 27:12) As you near the end of your Encouragement Challenge, take time to think about your husband’s responses to the wickedness of the culture, the media, etc. Does your husband recognize and avoid evil? Does he regularly turn his [...]

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30 Day Husband Encouragement Challenge: Day 28

The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom, and before honor is humility. (Prov. 15:33) Sometimes, when we just “know” we are right and our husbands are wrong, it takes great humility to honor them. It is difficult to speak well of our husbands when our own hearts are puffed up with pride. [...]

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30 Day Wife Encouragement Challenge: Day 27

As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. Proverbs 27:17 (NIV) For reasons that women often find hard to understand, very few men have close friends – especially friends that will hold them accountable and help them grow in the Lord. Pray that God will bring such a man into your life and that [...]

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