Nuggets

Our friends at Prepare/Enrich offer these great suggestions for adding spontaneity to your marriage. Do you and your spouse like to fly by the seat of your pants, or do you like to plan things out and know what’s going to happen? Or maybe you’re a combination of both. Wherever you fall, the realities of […]

Dear LORD, I really want to be able to deliver unconditional love wherever I go. Unfortunately, I don’t always live up to my aspirations. I am so sorry for my failures. Sometimes I take chunks out of people whom I love and am less than loving to the people who mean the most to me

I’m passionate about the intersection of entrepreneurship and marriage. Entrepreneurship is lonely when things aren’t good at home, and having been a serial entrepreneur over the decades, this rings true for me. So, here’s an idea for you. Plan to spend one wk/year on vacation with your spouse (no kids). Here are 50 questions can

There is a better way and here is a start! One thing for sure, you cannot wiggle your nose and hope your marriage is just going to get better on its own. Hope is not a strategy. It does not work that way, no matter how much you wish it would. Since our society doesn’t

Father, my God and my LORD, I do understand that bad things happen to good people and even to venerable places of worship, but it is almost impossible for me not to ask WHY?? Why did the venerable old sanctuary at FBC Dallas burn? What lessons are we to learn from this tragedy? I know

One of our favorite resources is PREP, Inc. – Successful Relationships – Successful Lives the work of Scott Stanley and Howard Markman https://www.prepinc.com. They raised this question and they reported from a study undertaken by the US Department of Health and Human Services. What gives these stalwarts in the battle for strong marriages confidence to ask and answer

Relationships are like competing in a Grand Prix road race. We’re not talking about a lazy Sunday afternoon drive through the countryside looking at the cotton, wheat or corn. Relationships are complicated, high-speed stuff. The smallest misjudgment can cause you to spin out, crash into the barriers and destroy a very expensive vehicle. To be successful in

Barb and I have 6 big strong grandsons and one little grand princess. Our boys range in age from 21-31 years of age. By the time we were their ages, we had been married and had a couple of children. First, some hard questions. Do you know how many children per family are required to

School is out almost everywhere. Whether you have kids still in school or not, most families are looking forward to or are already on some kind of vacation. If you do have kids in school, the chaos of having them at home begins in earnest. “Mom, I’m bored.” “Can I play on my PS2?” You

Scheduling sex is something that many couples resist. On the surface, putting sex on the calendar sounds unpleasant, like an item on a to-do list. You might even argue that it takes away spontaneity. How can that be fun? But from research, we know that scheduling sex actually works for many couples. If you’re wondering