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Prepare Even Now

Where do you see yourself in 10 years? In a decent job? Married? Maybe with a child or two? People expect us to go to college to prepare for a career. How many of us are intentional enough, though, to prepare for things that are arguably more significa …

Trusting God with Relationships, Part 6

Read Parts 1-5 here. I cannot conclude this series without considering the formidable task of trusting God with relationships in the absence of possibilities. When there’s a promising online match, a friendship that appears to be blossoming into more o …

Trusting God with Relationships, Part 5

  One reason it is difficult to trust God with relationships is a lack of confidence or distrust in the opposite sex. Christian singles may be hitting the same barriers to marriage as those with a worldly mindset — hesitancy to commit, lack of vi …

Trusting God with Relationships, Part 4

  I often notice people becoming uptight when we begin discussing the issue of trusting God with relationships. This is because they equate trust in God with passivity. But since when did “trusting God” mean “do nothing?” We’re all rather attached …

Trusting God with Relationships, Part 3

  After years of researching relationship statistics, studying principles for godly relationships and analyzing what the opposite sex is thinking (or attempting to), it sometimes seems as if I’ve reduced dating and marriage to a sterile series of …

Ordinary Men

  I love looking at old photos. I try to imagine what was going through people’s heads as they posed for photos 25 years ago, 50 years ago, a hundred years ago. So imagine the thoughts that went through my head when I came upon a collection of pho …

Trusting God with Relationships, Part 2

  My next installment was going to deal with God’s perspective on romance, but I’m going to hold off on that. From the comment section of my last blog, it’s evident people are interested in this issue of free will versus God’s sovereignty in relat …

Trusting God with Relationships, Part 1

I’ve recently been thinking a lot about God’s participation in my love life. Mostly, I’ve been wondering to what extent He cares about it. There was a time when I believed that the Lord was carefully preparing and refining my future spouse and orchestr …

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