How to Help Someone in an Abusive Relationship
You may want to know how to help and support someone you love who’s in an abusive relationship. Here are several ways that can enable you to be ...
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Opposite-Sex Friendships in Marriage
Some couples choose not to have opposite-sex relationships because of the risks. But the couple must make sure all the "nutrients" from ...
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Couple Friends: Double Dating to Strengthen Your Marriage
Along with a couple’s relationship with God, it takes a supportive community of friends to keep a marriage strong. From the beginning Genesis 2:24, ...
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Accountability means building faithful friendships
Accountability is faithful friendship, doing life side by side with a comrade, a friend or a co-worker. But we must be intentional about engaging ...
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How do I support a friend whose marriage is struggling?
A successful marriage often involves more than two people. Or as pastor and comedian Ted Cunningham puts it, “Marriage is a duet in need of ...
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How to respond when friends reveal tension in their marriage
Friends often confide in each other when they have marriage problems. So what should we say — or not say — if we want to help a friend who ...
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Developing emotional intimacy
In his book, Soul Cravings, Erwin Raphael McManus writes eloquently about intimacy and love. "We are most alive when we find it, most devastated ...
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Friendship factor: Making and keeping friends
“I don’t have any friends!” Does that sound familiar? If your teenagers are like so many I’ve worked with, they probably struggle with ...
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Reinventing Christmas: Tips to help mums stress a little less
Sleigh bells ring! Are you listening? Sorry, did you just ask me something? In the lane, snow is glistening. Oh - we still need lights for that ...
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The Billy Graham rule: Should you be friends with someone of the opposite sex?
When Billy Graham was 98 years old, he could still make headlines. When Vice President Mike Pence said that he never spends time alone with a woman ...
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Happy marriages are based on deep friendship
Before we began to date, Greg and I were friends for more than three years. We attended the same university and had classes together. I also became ...
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How to help a friend who has marriage problems
One of our culture’s greatest lies is that marriage is only about two people. Truth is, a successful marriage requires support from friends and ...
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