Have you ever asked yourself why you are here? Why were you born? The most obvious reason is your mother and father’s love for each other prompted them to have children. But why is anyone here? Why did God choose to bring us into existence? Original love. Agapé love. Immense godly love that is ...
A Husband for Our Own Good: Christian Wife 101
We know what we want in a man when we’re young. Yet, we don’t have a clue what we need. An all-consuming fantasy fills our minds of what this man will do for us. He’ll rescue us from boredom, vanquish our loneliness, and whisk us weightless in his arms toward that multicolor sunset. He’ll be the key ...
A Help Meet Like No Other: Christian Wife 101
Have you struggled as a wife looking at that proverbial glass’s vacant half without disdain? It’s a flaw I carried into my marriage and—whoa—did it clash with my husband’s chipper view. He’d be blessed wading in the half he chose to see while I tried to show him all that was missing. Despite his ...
The Courage It Takes to Be a Godly Wife: Christian Wife 101
Does marriage ever get any easier, you wonder? Does godly submission and obedience to your husband ever come as naturally as a flower bud blooms in the spring or rain falls from a leaden sky? (You ask this after tripping over the same marital rocks you thought you'd overcome a year or decade ...
Peace and the Proverbs 31 Woman: Christian Wife 101
Have you ever thought that a peaceful marriage should exist by itself, an incarnate thing that springs up from the foundation you and your husband made on your wedding day? Peace would settle around you like fog surrounds a cozy harbor in the middle of a bustling and chaotic life. It would envelop ...