As I mentioned in 25 Ways to Show Love to Your Wife, praying with and for your wife is a critical component of a healthy marriage.Here is a companion graphic to go with my wife's Praying For Your Husband From Head to Toe. She made them both, but it made more sense to put this one on my blog than hers.Whether you reference this prayer guide or not, I hope you will make it a habit to pray for ...
Wine, Waiters, and Rorschach Tests
The ancient Greeks thought that the best way to discover a person's true character was to serve them a couple glasses of wine. As inhibitions fell, underlying personality traits would shine forth. This is the philosophical underpinnings of the modern-day business party -- get people to let down their guard and loosen up, so that you can see what they are really like.The Waiter Rule is ...
Spiritual Hypertension
Hypertension, or high blood pressure, is often called the “silent killer.” The one-third of adults who suffer from it don’t look or feel different than anyone else. Many don’t even realize they have it until it is too late and the damage has already been done -- damage such as strokes, heart attacks, and kidney failure to name a few.As I was recently reading about the fall of Babylon in 539 BC ...
25 Ways to Show Your Wife You Love Her
The key to a successful marriage is putting your spouse's needs ahead of your own. Here are 25 practical suggestions gleaned from 25 years of happy marriage.Listen To be truly heard is the longing of every human heart, and your wife is no exception. It sounds simple, but listening can be harder than it seems with so many distractions around us and within us. Set aside some time every day to look ...
The Most Important Parenting Book of the Decade
Amy Chua’s little memoire on parenting, BATTLE HYMN OF THE TIGER MOTHER, is both fascinating and controversial. I read the Time magazine article and immediately downloaded the book to the Kindle app on my iPhone. I then read the entire book in two evenings with rapt enthusiasm. The fact that it is so well written, interesting, and easy to digest means it will be widely read. Most parenting ...
The Road Less Taken
My wife asked me to write the foreword to her first book. Here's what I wrote. The Road Less Taken “But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.” Matthew 7:14 (NIV) This is the story of the road less taken.Are you being herded along the highway of conventional wisdom, jostled by every whim and worry? Are you marching lockstep with hordes of unhappy people ...