If you’ve ever seen a broken family, then you know how intense and emotional conflict becomes when there are two warring and irreconcilable factions. Now imagine a married man who also has a girlfriend and children with her. Imagine that these women and children despise one another, fight often, and wish the other woman and her … Read more
Song of Songs 7:11 (NIV) – Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside let us spend the night in the villages. Planning a good vacation takes a lot of praying and preparing. The earlier you start planning, the better the odds it will be a blessing and not a curse. As a couple, … Read more
Song of Songs 5:16 (NLT) – …my lover, my friend. Friendship between a husband and wife is crucial to a healthy and successful marriage. Too many religious people settle for functional marriages that lack fun. You may love your spouse, but do you LIKE them? Do you enjoy being around them and learning about them? … Read more
Song of Songs 2:10,15 – My beloved speaks and says to me: “Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away…Catch the foxes for us, the little foxes that spoil the vineyards…” In Song of Songs 2, the woman is making deposits into her relationship by the words she speaks to her beloved. Like a … Read more
Song of Songs 1:4 – How right they are to adore you! As we settle into our marriage and time passes, it’s good to remind ourselves of how and why we fell in love. What was this like for you? For your beloved? As life gets busy with kids, work, and daily activities, it becomes … Read more
Song of Songs 1:16a – Behold, you are beautiful, my beloved, truly delightful. Our marriage is strong because of the Bible. My wife Grace and I met and started dating at the age of 17. She was a Christian and I was not. Thankfully, Grace gave me a Bible and by God’s grace, I ended … Read more
This contains excerpts from the new book “Real Romance: Sex in the Song of Songs”. To purchase the book, click here, and to access the sermon series that accompanies these devos and this book, click here. Song of Songs 8:10 – I am a wall… Sociological research has come up with something called the “success … Read more
This contains excerpts from the new book “Real Romance: Sex in the Song of Songs”. To purchase the book, click here, and to access the sermon series that accompanies these devos and this book, click here. Song of Songs 8:4 – Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires. If you’re a single … Read more
Genesis 2:24 – Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. When a new couple gets married, one of the biggest things each of their parents needs to realize is that neither one is marrying into one family or the other, but instead they’re … Read more
Song of Songs 7:11 (NIV) – Come, my beloved, let us go to the countryside let us spend the night in the villages. Early in our marriage, our vacations were not architected for rest and joy. With little kids and no money, we struggled to figure out how to get time off work and also to … Read more
Deuteronomy 5:12 – Observe the Sabbath day, to keep it holy, as the Lord your God commanded you. When we were first married, we got into a bad habit of not getting a weekly Sabbath day off or planning for holidays and vacations. We had “good” reasons to justify our overwork. In college, we were very broke, … Read more
Romans 8:1 – There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. This contains excerpts from the new book “Real Romance: Sex in the Song of Songs”. To purchase the book, click here, and to access the sermon series that accompanies these devos and this book, click here. After another argument … Read more