Recent content by presidente

A woman can be submissive without being a doormat. Something a woman can try to check out when dating a man is if he's going to be the type to plop down on the coach all afternoon and expect her to constantly get up to bring him Doritos and drinks.

I think having the same faith and similar beliefs and values are more important than denomination in a lot of cases. There are so many denominations and one may be similar to one in one way and different in another. Something I think is good general advice to any young man looking to marry is...

Non-denominational churches are the fastest growing segment, I've read, in the US. What counts as 'interfaith.' Let's say someone goes to Mark Driscoll's church. Would marrying a Pentecostal or Charismatic be 'interfaith'? Mark believes in spiritual gifts. But Pentecostals aren't likely to...

Here is some advice for those who haven't married yet and those who have: The difference between an adulterer and a man who stays faithful in marriage is that the man who stays faithful guards his heart and actions to prevent himself from falling into this sin. The difference between an...

If both people are on their first marriage, and the advice is how they can have one partner for life, there is no ex-husband. Bitterness toward an ex-boyfriend might be an issue. I wish young people in our culture weren't encouraged to date before they were looking for marriage partners. It...

I went to visit some relatives and a lot of my kin are divorced, divorce and remarried, one is divorced and I hear he is living with someone who is married to someone else. I'm sad to hear about the failed marriages among my family. I think churches, including pastors and other teachers and...

Wait till he does some act of service, and then go wild demonstrating your desire, and tell him how much what he did made you desire him. "Oh" [kiss kiss kiss] "I love how you hung those curtains for me." [kiss kiss kiss] "It really makes me excited...." Pick a manly act of service like...

My wife and I have been married for 15 years. There have been times when she told me she didn't feel love for me like when we were first married. Usually that happened during a difficult time of PMS or some other 'hormonal' time like pregnancy or post-partum depression. There were times when...

I'd like to point out that I was not the poster who wrote that. I agree that widows are allowed to remarry. Statistically, virginity has been shown to have a high correlation with not getting a divorce. I wouldn't expect widows who were virgins at their first marriage who'd been faithful and...

I know it's an old thread, but I wanted to respond to the OP. If you want to get married, why do you think you are too young to marry? If you are going to be life-long celibate for the glory of God, go for it. But if not, 26 or 27 is kind of the age for marriage in our culture, which has...

From reading the Bible, we can see that marrying a virgin is a desirable thing. Rebecca, we are told, was beautiful and a virgin, two positive traits. Israelites were allowed to marry virgin captives taken from distant nations they fought in war. And a woman who feigned virginity and was...

Generally, I'd say as much sex so that both parties are happy with it. A sexless marriage is not okay if one party does not agree to it. Of course, health issues may make a sexless marriage a necessity for some people.

That's an idiotic law if they are talking about a married couple. What jurisdiction are you in? It would depend on where you are at as to whether that would be illegal. Maybe it is in Canada. I'm glad my wife doesn't drink. Let's say the woman had a lot to drink, and she was rather...

Deuteronomy did not command anyone to get a divorce. If a Jewish man never divorces his wife, that doesn't mean he is in violation of Deuteronomy 24. In the translations I read, it sounds like the command is IF a man puts away his wife and gives her a writing of divorce and she marries another...

Divorce certainly can be a sin. Or at least the various actions involved in divorce-- removing the spouse from the home or leaving the spouse, giving a certificate of divorce that is unjustified, etc. In Malachi, men were treacherously putting away their wives. Jeremiah mentions the idea of...