Archive | June, 2012

Casting Out All Fear

As a formerly dominant/controlling wife – I can tell you that I had one primary motivation for those 15 years of our marriage – FEAR. BIG FEAR. A GLIMPSE INSIDE MY SOUL BACK THEN I was TERRIFIED about so many things all the time. I was consumed with worry every day. I was anxious. I knew what […]

Learning to Respect and Give up Control is a Process

Nina Roesner is the author of The Respect Dare – a book I LOVE that is extremely helpful to wives who want to learn to respect their husbands and learn more about how to approach marriage in a God-honoring, Christ-glorifying way. She gave me permission to post this article. I think it will be EXTREMELY […]

I’m Looking for Some Testimonials

HUSBANDS: I would LOVE to hear from you! If you’d like to anonymously write about your experiences with respect and/or disrespect in marriage, please write a post (preferably 1000 words or less) and tell me: What it feels like when your wife does not respect you? How much harder is it to love your wife […]

I’m the Spiritually Mature One in This Marriage!

I made myself the judge and jury and condemned my husband’s spirituality years ago. I would pick him apart and focus on every weakness and flaw. I truly can’t count how many times I thought that I was spiritually superior to my husband earlier in our marriage. After all, I was the one who was having […]

Prayer for God’s Church and Our Families

Lord, We lift up Your great Name that is above all names! You alone are God and there is no other! You have made Your salvation known and revealed Your righteousness to the nations. We thank and praise You for Christ and all that He has done for us and in us. You are our […]

From Clark Kent (or Worse) to Superman!

I have the vision to see the hero deep inside of my husband - the man God desires him to be and created him to be - and how, by God’s power working in me and my respect and cooperation, he can fully become that hero of a man. Everyone else may just see a normal guy. But I know better! […]

Marriage Is Hard Blah Blah Blah

Today’s blog is a guest post by Justin Campbell. Justin is a 39 year old single guy living and working in St. Louis. You can read more by him at his blog More Than Don’t Have Sex, where he writes about singleness, Jesus, the church, and how we can all be in it together. Remember the […]

Taming a Beast

One of my favorite princess stories is the one about Beauty and the Beast. I like every version of it that I have ever seen. It’s one place where the power of femininity over a selfish, cruel, mean “monster” of a man is showcased brilliantly. Beauty doesn’t get the Beast to fall in love with her by being […]

Holding Nothing Back

I LOVE the story about Abraham. This was a man whose faith impressed God. There aren’t many things people can do that impress our mighty, sovereign, holy, powerful, just, loving, gracious, merciful God. Our own attempts at being good sure don’t get God very excited. All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all […]

A letter to my newlywed self

This is a guest post from Julia, a happy homemaker who wonders whether she was born sixty years too late. She blogs regularly at Being June (www.beingjune.wordpress.com) I attended a bridal shower over the weekend, a champagne brunch in a medieval-looking hall in a sea of impossibly well-groomed gardens. He’s a chef, she’s in finance. […]