Biblical Resources for Everyday Life
Intimate, yet different. Drawn to each other, yet sometimes wary of our contact. The person-to-person oneness called marriage adds both intrigue and complexity to our lives. How do we cope with the challenges such closeness brings? And how do we experience that oneness if children are given to us? I hope the following perspectives will help. They’re gleaned from many years of wrestling to coordinate God’s understanding of marriage and parenting with my own.
My husband and I process reality very differently. Does he suffer from deficits (that I should fix), or did God intend that our differences stir passion?
When we wives use “weapon-words” to get our husbands to shape-up, they typically back off. So what does impact our husband’s hearts?
Is God hopelessly outdated when He says “the husband is head of the wife”? Or is biblical headship God’s up-to-date gift?