Our culture embraces many illusions in relationships. One of the biggest is called Compatibility. It is viewed as the THE way to ensure a successful marriage. In contrast, God seems to have a different opinion. To build and maintain a fulfilling marriage requires us (individually) to become more and more like Jesus, by allowing the […]

God created marriage to be this mystery of two separate different people coming together to become one. But how does this mystery of two become one happen? The Bible says that there are two keys – love and respect. Everyone needs and wants both love and respect. However, wives deeply value being loved while husbands […]

God’s plan in marriage is that two separate individuals will become one. But we’ve traded oneness to see marriage as a transaction. What we want is friendship, care, sex, security, and a family. We trade this to get that. I’ll put up with __ (fill in the blank) to get __ (fill in the blank). […]

The fact is if we are or will get married, we will marry the wrong person. What we mean is that we’ll never marry the perfect person. Every couple, to some extent, is a union of very different people. We are not compatible. Marriage is hard and it takes work. We are tempted to focus […]

The mystery of marriage isn’t finding the right person, but becoming the right person.

What makes it hard to trust God? It’s hard to trust when we are struggling and suffering. It is hard to trust when those we love are hurting. It’s hard to trust when expect God to fix something or get us out of trouble and it doesn’t happen or at least it doesn’t happen the […]

Tell God how you feel but trust him with your life.

Trusting God doesn’t just happen overnight. It takes a resume of trust to be developed over life experiences. God built his “trust resume” with Abraham over many years and in different circumstances. Abraham had such incredible trust in God that the Bible says he’s the premier example. How do we go about building trust? We […]

We never climb the mountain of trust alone. God is always with us.

Trusting God is the only way through our fear.