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How Can We Respect Someone Who Is Not Very Respectable?
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How Can We Respect Someone Who Is Not Very Respectable?

“Respect is earned.” Have you heard that sentiment before? It’s a fairly popular thought in culture today, even bleeding into the church and our interpretations of passages like Ephesians 5:33: “However, each one of you [husbands] also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.”

How Can We Respect Someone Who Is Not Very Respectable?
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Does God Intend Mutual Sexual Satisfaction in Marriage?
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Does God Intend Mutual Sexual Satisfaction in Marriage?

Men and women have differing sexual and emotional needs, which I have preached for forty years. But be assured, this does not mean that one does not have sexual needs and the other does not have emotional needs. Differing does not mean nonexistent.

Does God Intend Mutual Sexual Satisfaction in Marriage?
Marriage
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What Could They Mean When She Says, “I Need Respect” and He Says, “I Need Love”?
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What Could They Mean When She Says, “I Need Respect” and He Says, “I Need Love”?

Back before I began sharing across the world the Love and Respect message, based on Ephesians 5:33, we surveyed seven thousand people with the following question: "During a conflict with your spouse, do you feel unloved or disrespected?"

What Could They Mean When She Says, “I Need Respect” and He Says, “I Need Love”?
Marriage
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Five Strategies to Achieving Win-Win in Marriage
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Five Strategies to Achieving Win-Win in Marriage

Truth be told, the vast majority of disagreements that arise between husband and wife are what I call disagreements in the gray areas of life. Meaning there is not a clear, black-and-white answer to who is right and who is wrong.

Five Strategies to Achieving Win-Win in Marriage
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Does Jesus’ Claim to be “the Son of Man” Mean He Wasn’t the Son of God?
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Does Jesus’ Claim to be “the Son of Man” Mean He Wasn’t the Son of God?

Some claim that because Jesus Christ describes Himself as "the Son of Man" (instead of “the Son of God”) in three of the gospels about Christ's life and ministry (Matthew, Mark, and Luke), this proves he was not the Son of God, and thus not God.

Does Jesus’ Claim to be “the Son of Man” Mean He Wasn’t the Son of God?
Christian Life
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Does God Intend Mutual Sexual Satisfaction in Marriage?

Does God Intend Mutual Sexual Satisfaction in Marriage?

Does God Intend Mutual Sexual Satisfaction in Marriage?
Marriage
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What Could They Mean When She Says, “I Need Respect” and He Says, “I Need Love”?

What Could They Mean When She Says, “I Need Respect” and He Says, “I Need Love”?

What Could They Mean When She Says, “I Need Respect” and He Says, “I Need Love”?
Marriage
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10
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Five Strategies to Achieving Win-Win in Marriage

Five Strategies to Achieving Win-Win in Marriage

Five Strategies to Achieving Win-Win in Marriage
Marriage
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Does Jesus’ Claim to be “the Son of Man” Mean He Wasn’t the Son of God?

Does Jesus’ Claim to be “the Son of Man” Mean He Wasn’t the Son of God?

Does Jesus’ Claim to be “the Son of Man” Mean He Wasn’t the Son of God?
Christian Life
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“Help! Forget Respect - What If I Don’t Even Love My Husband?”

“Help! Forget Respect - What If I Don’t Even Love My Husband?”

In Ephesians 5:33, husbands are commanded to love their wives, and wives are commanded to respect their husbands. One obvious question that I often receive concerning this is, “Why aren’t wives commanded to love their husbands?” The answer I always share is that God is not in the business of commanding us to do things that we naturally do on our own. Put simply, women love to love. And in a marriage between a goodwilled wife and a goodwilled husband, she doesn’t need a biblical command to love her husband unconditionally—she does it already!

“Help! Forget Respect - What If I Don’t Even Love My Husband?”
Marriage
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When Two Goodwilled People Disagree in the Gray Areas of Life - Part 3

When Two Goodwilled People Disagree in the Gray Areas of Life - Part 3

Last but not least, I cannot overemphasize enough the positives that can result from any gray-area disagreement when one or both spouses focus on looking for the common ground in the disagreement.

When Two Goodwilled People Disagree in the Gray Areas of Life - Part 3
Marriage
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When Two Goodwilled People Disagree in the Gray Areas of Life - Part 2

When Two Goodwilled People Disagree in the Gray Areas of Life - Part 2

In part 1, I made the argument that the vast majority of married couples going into battle with each other over disagreements they have are not doing so over black-and-white issues of morality. Instead, their disagreements—that at times escalate into knock-down, drag-out fights—are typically in the gray areas of life, where neither spouse is wrong, but one is “less right” than the other.

When Two Goodwilled People Disagree in the Gray Areas of Life - Part 2
Marriage
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When Two Goodwilled People Disagree in the Gray Areas of Life - Part 1

When Two Goodwilled People Disagree in the Gray Areas of Life - Part 1

In my experience, the vast majority of married couples going into battle with each other over disagreements are not doing so over black-and-white issues of morality. They are not up in arms with each other because one is hoping to hold up the bank together this Friday like Bonnie and Clyde, while the other is trying to convince them that a life of crime is not the answer. One parent is not trying to convince the other that they should train their children as MMA fighters so they can be kings of the playground.

When Two Goodwilled People Disagree in the Gray Areas of Life - Part 1
Marriage
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Is This Nonbiblical Issue Really the Hill You Want to Die On?

Is This Nonbiblical Issue Really the Hill You Want to Die On?

Some of us demand that our spouse agree with us because if they don't, they will be sinning. If we say yes to something, we tell them that they, too, must say yes or risk grieving the heart of God. Unless there is a clear violation of Scripture, morality, or the law, our spouse is not inherently wrong when varying with us. We would never say that the color pink is wrong for not being blue. What artist would go on television declaring that blue is innately wrong for not being pink? That's silly. 

Is This Nonbiblical Issue Really the Hill You Want to Die On?
Marriage
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We Don’t Know Exactly How the Thoughts We Think Originate, Including Why You Decided to Read This Title [Video]

We Don’t Know Exactly How the Thoughts We Think Originate, Including Why You Decided to Read This Title [Video]

Why did you decide to click on this article and give it a read? Neurologically speaking, nobody knows! Neuroscientists don’t know how we think thoughts in the first place. This remains elusive. If I think to myself, Raise my right hand and wave at my neighbor, the “origin of thought” or the “neural basis of thought” continues under investigation. Even the smartest scientists and researchers do not know how that thought originates.

We Don’t Know Exactly How the Thoughts We Think Originate, Including Why You Decided to Read This Title [Video]
Christian Life
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A Husband with Healthy Self-Love Will Display Such Love Toward His Wife: An Assessment

A Husband with Healthy Self-Love Will Display Such Love Toward His Wife: An Assessment

In Ephesians 5:28, we read, “So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.” Clearly there is a command here for the husband to love his wife—specifically, to agape-love his wife, or love her unconditionally. But does the writer, Paul, give us any tips on how a husband is to love his wife without condition? Yes, it’s right there in the same verse. He is to love his wife “as [his] own body.” He is to love her as he “loves himself.”

A Husband with Healthy Self-Love Will Display Such Love Toward His Wife: An Assessment
Marriage
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An Apology Becomes Suspicious When Overshadowed by Excessive Explanation

An Apology Becomes Suspicious When Overshadowed by Excessive Explanation

John made a thoughtless comment to Kelly when arguing about her father and mother visiting them for Christmas. He said, “Your parents stay too long and continually complain while here.” Hurt and offended by his criticisms, Kelly began to cry. John, recognizing he should not have said those things, tried to apologize.

An Apology Becomes Suspicious When Overshadowed by Excessive Explanation
Christian Life
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