My second husband once said that a wife, if she is very generous, may allow that her husband lives up to eighty percent of her expectations. There is always the other twenty percent that she would like to change, and she may chip away at it for the whole of their married life without...
“I just want to be an ordinary person!” Those were the emphatic words of my four-year-old niece. We, her uncles, a theologian and a medical doctor, were asking about her aspirations. We were stunned. Don’t you want to be something special, exceptional, best at something? Shouldn’...
but they might want to think again. It is a great blessing to have a wife “who will do him good and not evil all the days of her life” (Proverbs 31:12). Grade: A+
After personally experiencing God's love and compassion following the loss of her eleven-year-old son, Landen, Chaka delights in testifying to others about God's unfathomable and transformative love that permeates even the most difficult circumstances. Chaka and her husband of twenty-six years have...
Proverbs 31:25-26. For a loving, faithful and responsible husband, this one of the great tattoo ideas for women and can be an excellent Mother’s Day surprise. It edifies the wife and exalts her noble character. It also signifies that she and the family’s future is well secure and pro...
married I give this command (not I, but the Lord): A wife must not separate from her husband. But if she does, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And a husband must not divorce his wife. Scriptures about Love...
First, Adonijah, the guy who was trying to become the next king (as we learned in the previous posts here and here), visits Solomon’s mother, Bathsheba, urging her to ask Solomon to give the beautiful young woman Abishag to Adonijah to be Adonijah’s wife. Remember Abishag? Abishag was...
What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.” And in the house the disciples asked him again about this matter. And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her, and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she ...
I used to be a pastor in a big inner-city church (with more than 1,000 members). One day, a widow—whose husband had died about a year before—told me that she had listened to a motivational preacher at another church. That speaker inspired her so much that she gave a large sum ...
The man was very rich; he had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats. He was shearing his sheep in Carmel.3 Now the name of the man was Nabal, and the name of his wife Abigail. The woman was discerning and beautiful, but the man was harsh and badly behaved; he was a Calebite...