Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Looking at Life and Love through God's Eyes
Christian Life, Single Life, Theology
Family holiday events when you’re single can be hard. I still remember the feelings I had at Thanksgiving and Christmas as I watched my cousins bring their significant others to family events, even the ones that were quite a bit younger than me. I felt so behind and a bit like a loser. I’m not saying anyone ever set out …
Married Life, Single Life, Theology
Every Disney princess movie pretty much ends the same way: said princess and her prince charming ride off into the sunset. From this, we assume that all their problems were permanently solved and they stay married forever. You don’t really think about how their life progresses or how it ends. Married Life Is Still Unpredictable The truth is that life …
Married Life, Single Life
First off, it feels a little weird as a married person to tell you that sex is not a right. It feels a bit like a person gorging on cheesecake telling a person who’s fasting that dessert is not a right. It’s true, but it feels a little weird to say currently. That’s not to say this issue isn’t still …
Single Life
If there’s one thing that Lifetime movies are great at, it’s reinforcing the idea that life is not complete without romance. Okay, it’s not just Lifetime that’s guilty of this. It’s probably every rom-com ever and about a million songs. This is a lie, but it’s one that I totally bought into and that you may buy into too. When …
Single Life
Halloween this week means that the holiday season has officially begun. It could also be called the “Single Awareness Season”. One after another Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and then Valentine’s Day will come, each with the potential to remind the single person just how single they are. It can be depressing and hard. I found it to be so at …
Single Life
What is the difference between dating and being married? That was a question I was ruminating over during a sleepless night this past week. Obviously, to be married a couple has to have a wedding of some sort and go through the legal channels to be legally married, but that’s not really what I’m talking about. What makes a marriage …
Christian Life, Single Life, Spiritual Disciplines
This week for my Six Week Spiritual Growth Journey that I’m doing on Facebook, I talked about Sabbath. In thinking about the benefits of Sabbath, I realized that Sabbath teaches us the very thing that I struggled with most when I was single. It’s something we all often struggle with when we have unmet desires: there’s only so much we …
Christian Life, Married Life, Sex, Single Life, Theology
A Theology of Sex, Part 1 As Christians, we often have a stigma attached to us: we’re too uptight about sex. The world has moved on to a place where the old constraints no longer matter, with few exceptions (people generally are still against bestiality, incest, and pedophilia).Yet Christians, or at least the conservative, old school ones, still argue against …
Sex, Single Life
How Orange Is The New Black Is More Honest Than Many Christians about Oral Sex I will admit something rather freely to you all here: I’m really not very good at the whole only watching wholesome shows and movies thing. I never really have been. Mostly because wholesome stuff is usually either just for kids or it sucks. There …
Single Life
I know you’ve all been dying to find out the next five questions you should ask yourself before dating or marrying someone. Here they are. You’ll note that all of these are more serious than the first five. These five are also more important as you’re looking towards marriage. (Missed last week’s post? Make sure you check out the first …