Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Single Life
Our modern world is pretty sweet in some ways. We have the knowledge of the whole world at our fingertips due to smartphones and the internet. We can communicate with people anywhere for free. In many aspects of life, we have unlimited options. In other ways, our modern world creates problems other people have never had to deal with. We …
Single Life
We all have dreams of what we think our life could be like. One of my modern romance dreams was to have a high school sweetheart or a childhood friend that I married. How wonderful to marry a person that you’ve known for most of your life! You would be forever surrounded by people who had known you since you …
Single Life
I’ve always been slightly envious of those who lived during the time of Jane Austen or even during the Victorian era. While I wouldn’t want to trade away things like indoor plumbing and air conditioning, I do envy those time periods because there were clear rules of behavior. There was a code of etiquette. Everyone was aware of how you …
Single Life
You know what makes sexual purity and romance harder for Christians in our modern world? We learn about sex earlier and it’s everywhere, but, on average, people are getting married later and later in life. That means we have more temptation to stand up to and we have to stand up to it for longer (or forever). How did this …
Sex, Single Life
Can we just be real for a second? Modern romance is hard, especially if you are a Christian trying to live in a way that’s honoring to God. I think (and there are researchers and several books that agree with me) that dating and finding a marriage partner is more difficult now in some ways than it’s ever been. All …
Single Life
I firmly believe that soulmates and “the one” are an urban legend. They’re not biblical concepts or historical ones (read last week’s blog post for more info on that). However, that doesn’t mean that you can just marry anybody you please and hope for the best. There are some warning signs and relationship red flags you should watch out for. …
Single Life
My husband and I have been looking at houses since February. It’s been an interesting process. The market where we live in the Portland area is absolutely crazy. Prices are high and there’s a lot of competition (like one house we looked at got 16 offers in one weekend). Despite that, we found one on Monday, put in an offer …
Single Life
One of my least favorite sayings in the world is “follow your heart.” Let’s be real, your heart can send you in some very stupid directions. While there are few experiences quite as overwhelming, awesome, and irrational as falling in love, this experience can also blind us to some big problems. I know this from experience, people! This is a …
Christian Life, Single Life
How Two Little Words Show Our Actions Do Not Determine God’s Gifts In the earlier years of my life, I was on a quest to be perfect. Like many Christian girls in the late nineties, early 2000s, I had completely bought into the purity culture movement. I had kissed dating goodbye at age 11 and totally believed that my true …