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Latest Research: Married Couples Having Sex the Wrong Way!

A fool finds no pleasure in understanding but delights in airing his own opinions.
Proverbs 18:2

April fools! Sorry. We just couldn’t help ourselves today. After all, this day has a long and colorful tradition.

In 1957 the BBC news announced that thanks to a very mild winter, Swiss farmers were enjoying a bumper spaghetti crop. It accompanied this announcement with footage of Swiss peasants pulling strands of spaghetti down from trees. Huge numbers of viewers called the BBC wanting to know ho...

A Revolutionary New Tool for Launching Lifelong Love

This is my beloved and this is my friend. Song of Solomon 5:16

Remember your wedding vows?

Well, you probably included something in your vows that some of today’s couples are skipping. There’s a surprising trend occurring in the wedding industry.

USA Today, in a recent article titled “Couples Take Their Vows in a New Direction,” reported the following:

“The Bible is losing ground on the wedding aisle, and forever may follow obey into oblivion, particularly for those who marry in civil or non-...

Take a Guilt Free Drop

So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Christ Jesus. Romans 8:1

“This morning we are going to learn to juggle. Each of you should be holding three brightly colored scarves.”

More than a thousand of us had gathered in the ballroom of a hotel for a conference on laughter. This morning we were listening to Dr. Steve Allen Jr., the son of the famous comedian.

“I’m going to lead you through a dozen steps to teach you the fine art of juggling,” he told us. “First, take one of your...

What Are You Saying?

Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. Ephesians 4:29

Maryella wore a wool jacket to work one day and on her way home she decided to get the car washed. Since it had warmed up outside, she slipped her jacket off while she waited for the car to be cleaned. The next morning, her jacket was nowhere to be found. Maybe I left it at the car wash, she wondered as she calle...

Shift Your Focus for a Happier Marriage

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God. Matthew 5:9

Amy Sutherland learned an important relationship lesson in a very unlikely place. And she wrote about it for the New York Times in an article called, “What Shamu Taught Me About a Happy Marriage.”

Sutherland begins by explaining that, after 12 years of marriage, she became dismayed that her husband Scott still exhibited several irritating habits. “These minor annoyances are not the stuff of separation and divorce,” s...

The Secret to a Healthy Marriage

Do you have eyes but fail to see, and ears but fail to hear? Mark 8:18

There is a saying in India, “When a pickpocket meets a saint, all he sees are the pockets.” Our motives shape what we see – and don’t see – around us.

Consider the fabled story of the man from Colorado who moved to Texas and built a house with a large picture window from which he could view hundreds of miles of rangeland. “The only problem is,” he said, “there’s nothing to see.” About the same time, a Texan moved to Colorado...

The Most Important Discussion You’ll Ever Have

And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ. Philippians 1:9-10

The world’s longest marriage was celebrated recently.

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Lee, 91, and Kim, 95, from South Korea celebrated their 82nd wedding anniversary at a festive event in the house of their first son, aged 75. Lee and Kim have 5 sons, 3 daughte...

How to Heat Up the Sheets This Valentines

Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. Then the man said, “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was taken out of man.” For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they shoe become one flesh. The man and his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame. Genesis 2:22-25

Shiny. Smooth. Lustrous. Even the words describing them sound sensual....

How To Instantly Improve Your Marriage

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. II Corinthians 5:17

In his book Teaching the Elephant to Dance, James Belasco describes how trainers shackle young elephants with heavy chains to deeply embedded stakes. In that way the elephant learns to stay in its place.

Older, powerful elephants never try to leave—even though they have the strength to pull the stake and walk away. Their conditioning has limited their mo...

The Secret to Solving Problems Together

The LORD is my shepherd; I have everything I need. Psalm 23:1

Wouldn’t you like to provide comfort – truly abiding comfort – to each other? Truth is, you can. The key is found in focusing on what makes each of you feel emotionally safe. This is the secret to emotional connection and comfort, and here’s how it works.

Say your spouse feels most safe when he is gaining control of his time. This means that he’s going to feel most threatened when his time is being wasted. And if the two of you are t...