We bring nothing to God, and He gives us everything..

Love your God and your family and you're making an eternal investment. Family life will continue in the New Heavens and the New Earth, but even the m….

Parenting changed for me when I finally realized it's not about being a perfect parent trying to raise perfect kids, but rather, family life is a col….

Fear is intensified by passionate love. The more I care about someone, the more I'm concerned about their welfare. The less we have to lose, in one s….

Ideally, as parents we'd have unlimited energy, the ability to manage tricky emotions like fear and anger, vast stores of wisdom to answer complicate….

Having children made me confront my true fears and trust in God many times over in a much more intensified manner..

Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately casts….

It's astonishing how quickly cultural references change. Each new generation of parents grows up with a new slate of cultural understanding, televisi….

I wouldn't be surprised if many marriages end in divorce largely because one or both partners are running from their own revealed weaknesses as much ….

Our children may, at times, make parenting very difficult. Sometimes, we might be tempted to say, "Fine, I'm done with you!" But God is never done wi….

A defeatist attitude kills almost as many marriages as do affairs..

If you want to be free to serve Jesus, there’s no question—stay single. Marriage takes a lot of time. But if you want to become more like Jesus, I ca….

Christian love must be chased after, aspired to, and practiced..

More than we care about their "success," vocation, or financial status, our hearts will be encouraged when our kids are faithful followers of Christ,….

A large part of parenting is about managing weariness and motivation. Much of the success of parenting is about avoiding the sins of "omission" as we….

Done well, marital sexuality can be a supremely healing experience..

A good marriage isn't something you find; it's something you make..

Couples don't fall out of love so much as they fall out of repentance..

A Christian is never dependent on the response of others to grow spiritually. It's our own heart's decisions that matter.

What if your husband’s faults are God’s tools to shape you? What if the very thing that most bugs you about your man constitutes God’s plan to teach ….

When God entrusts his children to us - for they're all ultimately his - he knows what we lack, he knows where we're weak, he knows how we tend to sin….