Nuggets

When Barb and I got married nearly 36 years ago, we had no intimacy…we thought we did, but alas, all we had was sex. We had sex, and for awhile that was enough, but that’s an outward type of intimacy. On the inside, we barely had any connection at all, and we were busy teaching […]

Do any of these statements describe your marriage? If you agreed with one or more of these, you are probably feeling disconnected from your spouse. The good news is there’s hope for your marriage. All marriages — even the really good ones — need regular care. The routine of jobs, kids, chores, and other commitments

Below are 20 wise marriage tips from a friend pf mine who was recently divorced. You wouldn’t normally think that a divorced man would give good advice on being a husband, but this man has been through enough hardship to know what is worth fighting for. He learned the hard way…you do not have to

“Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you.” (Proverbs 4:25) If you make overzealous resolutions today for 2024, in just a short while you will begin to pave the road to Hell with them. How about on this first day of January, 2024 you create Minimum of 2 “Resolves” for

A Christmas Day prayer: Dear Father, please, this day, give me the same wide-eyed wonder and excitement I had as a six year old boy in red flannel footie pajamas when I bounded down the stairs on Christmas morning. As a grandfather, I pray for the same sense of awe when I celebrate the virgin

…Soon it will be Christmas day…goes the song. Follow on to last week’s Nugget. How will you celebrate the day this year? Will it be just be business as usual? Lights up right after Thanksgiving, tree up early in December, drag out and dust off all the ornaments, shop til you drop for aunt Sue

Dear LORD, my God and Father, as we draw closer to the day when we celebrate the once in history of Your coming to be living as one of us here, take my heart to the hillside with the shepherds who watched their sheep. Recreate in me the same sense of awe and wonder which

When you grow old and your eyes are dim and your joints ache and you can no longer get up and go as you did when you were young, two things will sustain you as life edges toward its conclusion. Can you guess? Your faith and your memories. I never yet heard anyone on a

I never get tired of talking about Random Acts of Kindness with couples. It all started when Jesus washed His guys’ feet and told them to go do the same. Gary Chapman’s 5 Love Languages Quiz (https://5lovelanguages.com/quizzes/love-language) is a grand way to discover what blesses your spouse. It is so important to learn to love

“By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household.” (Hebrews 11:7) Do you remember the story? His name was Harry Truman. No, not “The buck stops here” Harry Truman. Not the “Dewey Defeats Truman” Harry Truman. Not the haberdasher from Missouri…not