Tag: marriage

"Joy is a byproduct of healthy relationships, first and foremost with the Lord and then secondarily with others. My marriage is the most important earthly relationship I have."

"No one ever stumbles upon a happy marriage. To have a happy marriage, the husband and wife must decide to be of one mind."

"...strength and honor are the virtues or traits that the virtuous woman should select out of this spiritual wardrobe and 'put on' when she gets up in the morning."

"Would the hours we spend each day reflect what our true priorities should be?"

"The mystery of romance is the story of redemption, grace, and the church."

“I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.”

When I was growing up I learned about reading ‘ritten and ‘rithmetic in school. Also thrown in were some mechanics, history, social studies, music, woodwork, etc. My dad taught me character, discipline, hard work, farming, and many other lessons.

I often tell people that as a Pastoral Counselor, I am picking up where dad and mom left off. That is, the number one thing that I do as a Pastor, Biblical Counselor, and Marriage Speaker is move people out of a feelings dominated controlled life and into a controlled by the Holy Spirit, Biblical principled driven life. In essence, I am teaching them what they failed to learn as a child.

Multitudes of parents and teachers have observed a bright child academically excel in school and spiritually in his faith for several years and then become mediocre and apathetic in junior and senior high school. More alarming is the weakening of spiritual desire in this same child at about the same stage of life.

I was asked to speak on “The Woman’s Role in the Home”. Let me say right off, I certainly don’t claim to “have arrived” in any of these areas.........the Lord is still chipping away at me. But I would like to share with you what the Lord has laid on my heart in this area of the “Keeper at Home”.