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If you are financially stable and you have already decided that this is the one you want to marry, why would you have a long engagement?

  This morning, I was flipping around the radio dial and settled for a few minutes on a ministry program. It was a ministry I trusted. A ministry that, though I haven’t been a regular listener, I have been encouraged by from time to time. As the p …

There’s a lot of good advice out there, but if you treat it as a set of inflexible rules and restrictions, you could fall prey to relationship paralysis.

We passed by the “restaurant that Mommy doesn’t like” the other day. I know this because every time we pass this particular establishment, my little guy pipes up from the back seat, “Oh, look, look. There’s that restaurant Mommy doesn’t like.” I force …

  Yesterday, I listened to someone trying to decide between opportunities after finishing college. In describing one opportunity, she said something along the lines of “If I don’t stay around to do that, I’m worried it won’t get done.” In my mind, …

Shriver aimed her social revolution at those who at the time were whispered about, hidden away or shunned.

  There are two kinds of legalism among Christians. One is the kind that adds extra-biblical restrictions on Christian behavior like dancing or drinking alcohol. Then there’s the kind that follows this phrase, “Show me in the Bible where …” When …

I went to my first church voters’ meeting in a couple years recently. I’d never meant to stop going (health issues interrupted the habit, then inertia took over) but I quickly was reminded of something I hadn’t missed. As often happened before, several …