Genuine intimacy is the cry of our nation. Many individuals search through multiple marriages trying to find the vital connection their souls long for. Still louder shouts the silence of the man or woman who has been married for decades and feels alone in that partnership.
Many feel they have done everything right at home and with their spouses, yet there is little or no intimacy. Far too many partners feel like roommates—as if they are just getting by emotionally. If fulfillment is promised, then why is it that few couples enjoy that impassioned connection?
I don't think this is God's plan for your marriage. He wants you to live the abundant life and to have a marriage full of joy and love—and this is what we're going to accomplish these next thirty days. We are going to make your marriage over into what God has designed for you and your spouse.
I have lived in the laboratory of other people's marriages for many years. In addition, I myself have journeyed from the inability to be intimate to a place of deep intimacy and great fulfillment with my wife, Lisa.
Early in my married life I had the feeling that I was surrounded by walls. I desperately wanted to step out from behind those walls but could not find a way to connect to my wife. God in His graciousness drew me into the field of marriage and family counseling, where I gained much understanding. Still, no one explained, These are the steps to intimacy: The mystery of intimacy and the skills required to build and maintain it continued to elude me—as it does for so many others in my field.
As a father of two, I'm always looking for a teachable moment. If you're smooth about it, your kids won't even know that you're instructing them on life.
Based on a children's book...
For to be sure, he was crucified in weakness, yet he lives by God's power. Likewise, we are weak in him, yet by God's power we will live with him to serve you. —2 Corinthians 13:4
The Ides of March is a well-executed but unoriginal drama that features an incredible cast and serves as a coming out party for Ryan Gosling’s status as a major leading actor.
When CNN posted an article on its Belief Blog asking, “Do you speak Christian?” author John Blake looked into the various phrases that Christians use to describe things,
Jeremy Lin, a devout Christian who has come out of nowhere to become an international sensation after becoming the New York Knicks' point guard this month, shares his love for Christian rap and rock in a video, which you can watch above. In his brief interview with Fuse, Lin said that he likes to keep his pregame music "mellow" in listening to LeCrae and Hillsong United. "I try not to get too hyped up, otherwise I find myself kind of burnt out before the game, with a little too much energy, playing out of character," Lin, 23, said. "So I try to slow it down a little bit." Lin, who didn't receive any Division I scholarship offers out of high school and went undrafted in 2010 after playing and graduating from Harvard, is the NBA's first American-born player of Chinese or Taiwanese descent. "This is a miracle from God," Lin said about his improbable rise in basketball. "I don't think anybody expected this to happen."
