Need a Marriage Pick-Me-Up This Winter?

Wednesday, November 16th, 2011

Tired. Stressed. Harried. Struggling financially. Arrrggghhhh. Those are the most common words on our friends’ Facebook statuses — and they’re mostly Christians. When life becomes this hard, our marriages can take a back seat to survival. We become just coworkers and housemates when we’re supposed to be so much more than that.

Review: “Courageous”

Tuesday, October 11th, 2011

Not many movies had me in tears in the opening sequence. “Courageous” did. I’m not an “early adopter” of whatever comes down the road–I think I didn’t upgrade to Windows 95 until Windows 98 came out. Movies are a little different, and there may not be many days left in the theater schedule for this…
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The Marriage Vow

Friday, September 16th, 2011

In an age when the divorce rate among Christians differs in no respect from that of unbelievers, to the shame of the church, we seem to have forgotten what a vow is. This weekend I had the privilege of seeing what it means to an older generation to promise “For better or for worse.”

The story of the marriage of my grandparents is not a happily-ever-after one…

Men, Marriage, and Terrorism

Saturday, April 3rd, 2010

The earliest chapters of Scripture, God states “It is not good for man to be alone.”  There are many ways this works out in everyday life, but an interesting article in The Deseret News says that marriage even plays a key factor in recruiting — or suppressing — suicide bombers in the Islamic world.  The…
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We’re on the Jesse Lee Peterson Show!

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Hal and Melanie are on the Jesse Lee Peterson Show this morning from 10-11am. You can listen live here.

Urgent Prayer Request for Hal

Friday, December 11th, 2009

Dearest Friends, I didn’t think I could bear anything else right now, but my loving Father had a different plan and though I can not understand it, I accept it from His hand and trust Him to bring us through it. I told some of you earlier this week about Hal’s pneumonia and Katie and…
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