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Is Your Husband Trying to Make You Feel More Secure, but in Ways You’re Not Recognizing?
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Is Your Husband Trying to Make You Feel More Secure, but in Ways You’re Not Recognizing?

A couple attended the Love and Respect Marriage Conference recently, and several weeks later the wife wrote to me to share some of the reasons why they had attended, along with her frustrations for the lack of changes she had seen in him since the conference.

Is Your Husband Trying to Make You Feel More Secure, but in Ways You’re Not Recognizing?
Marriage
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Charlie Kirk: His Death Will Advance the Cause of Christ
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Charlie Kirk: His Death Will Advance the Cause of Christ

The old saying is still true: “The blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church.” I believe Charlie is a martyr. He was killed for his faith in Jesus—a faith that shaped not only his private life but every public word and act.

Charlie Kirk: His Death Will Advance the Cause of Christ
Christian Life
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Our Pink and Blue Designs Even Have Us Solving Problems Differently!
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Our Pink and Blue Designs Even Have Us Solving Problems Differently!

I have spoken often about the need to understand and appreciate God’s pink and blue design of women and men, respectively, because our differences undoubtedly go well beyond the biological.

Our Pink and Blue Designs Even Have Us Solving Problems Differently!
Marriage
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Do You Believe in Miracles? Why the Christian Must Say “Yes!”
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Do You Believe in Miracles? Why the Christian Must Say “Yes!”

On February 22, 1980, hall-of-fame sports broadcaster Al Michaels gave us perhaps the most iconic call ever in a sporting event.

Do You Believe in Miracles? Why the Christian Must Say “Yes!”
Christian Life
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She Asks, "What About My Needs?"
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She Asks, "What About My Needs?"

We’ve all thought that before, right? Many times, in fact. After all, we are a selfish people. It’s only natural for us to get caught up in thinking about what I need, and what you can do for me.

She Asks, "What About My Needs?"
Marriage
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Charlie Kirk: His Death Will Advance the Cause of Christ

Charlie Kirk: His Death Will Advance the Cause of Christ

Charlie Kirk: His Death Will Advance the Cause of Christ
Christian Life
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4
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Our Pink and Blue Designs Even Have Us Solving Problems Differently!

Our Pink and Blue Designs Even Have Us Solving Problems Differently!

Our Pink and Blue Designs Even Have Us Solving Problems Differently!
Marriage
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Do You Believe in Miracles? Why the Christian Must Say “Yes!”

Do You Believe in Miracles? Why the Christian Must Say “Yes!”

Do You Believe in Miracles? Why the Christian Must Say “Yes!”
Christian Life
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She Asks, "What About My Needs?"

She Asks, "What About My Needs?"

She Asks, "What About My Needs?"
Marriage
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8
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Enduring A Small Hurt Without Lashing Out

Enduring A Small Hurt Without Lashing Out

A wife writes me, “I just finished reading Cracking the Communication Code (now The Language of Love & Respect). Thank you so much for sharing your message! I have learned a great deal about what God desires for me as a wife, and I have already found great joy in putting the principles into action. My husband and I have been married just over 2 years, and we have a great relationship.

Enduring A Small Hurt Without Lashing Out
Marriage
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Mothers, Sons, And Respect Talk

Mothers, Sons, And Respect Talk

One mom applied the respect side of the equation in Ephesians 5:33 to her boys and said, “I'm still amazed how just using the words respect, appreciate, and admire seem to make a great difference so far with my…sons.” Most wives are mothers, and a good percentage of these moms have sons. After some of these moms read my book - Love and Respect - on marriage, they write things like, “I have seen so much good come out of my reading your book. It literally has changed my relationship with our sons (ages 14 and 10).”

Mothers, Sons, And Respect Talk
Parenting
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Sarah Stepped To The Microphone In Faith

Sarah Stepped To The Microphone In Faith

He felt like he lived in a pit, troubles beyond count surrounded him, and people wished for his death. Yet, we hear King David in Psalm 40:3 declaring, “you gave me a new song, a song of praise to you. Many will see this, and they will honor and trust you, the LORD God” (CEV). During David's duress the Israelites observed David's authentic relationship with God and then they chose to honor and trust God as well. Psalm 40:3 impacted my wife Sarah during a life-threatening period.

Sarah Stepped To The Microphone In Faith
Christian Life
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If Only

If Only

The enemy killed her husband. As a military man, deployed overseas, doing his duty for his country, he gave the ultimate sacrifice. But after 17 1/2 years of marriage, this woman entered widowhood, another immeasurable sacrifice. Brokenhearted, she writes to me, telling some of her story. "My husband

If Only
Marriage
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A Poem on Mother’s Day

A Poem on Mother’s Day

A good friend of mine, Scott Walchek, wrote this poem on Mother's Day. I loved it! I hope you do too. He captured my feelings about my mom. A Mother’s DruthersIf you had your druthers,

A Poem on Mother’s Day
Parenting
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Stereotyping?

Stereotyping?

A woman writes, “Please help. I have a women's study group and we are watching the DVD. I know that Emerson has several times mentioned that the love and respect issues are 'typical' and not all-inclusive to the point of stereotyping. However, I have a friend who can't see past the 'stereotype' issue...all men need respect, not love, and all women need love, not respect, PERIOD.”

Stereotyping?
Marriage
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He Showed His Hands

He Showed His Hands

Before his freshman year of high school, Davey, a young boy, age 14 went to summer camp for three weeks in northern Michigan, as he did each year since age 8. This time, when he returned home his mother shocked him with the news that his father had left. Davey couldn't believe his ears. He adored his dad. When Davey asked her where he'd gone she honestly could not tell him.Sadness flooded the boy's soul, and that sadness continued through the fall and winter of the school year. That sadness controlled him. Compounding his woes, the senior elite kids poked fun at him, the football coach dropped him from the squad, and for the first time he started getting bad grades. He had never felt such rejection, like such a loser, and so stupid.

He Showed His Hands
Christian Life
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Too Simplistic In Light of Serious Marital Problems?

Too Simplistic In Light of Serious Marital Problems?

A critic states, "Love and respect is too simplistic for couples who have more serious problems." Yes, many couples have serious problems beyond love and respect. However, those serious problems do not justify neglecting love and respect in favor of the alternative: hate and contempt. Not only is hostility and disdain destructive of intimacy, such behavior opposes God's command to love and respect in marriage (Ephesians 5:33).

Too Simplistic In Light of Serious Marital Problems?
Marriage
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4
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