Category: Marriage and Family

For the first eight years of my time as a professor at Talbot, I had a weekly meeting with my friend and mentor John Coe. John was my immediate...

This is a Q&A blog post by Talbot School of Theology’s Visiting Scholar in Philosophy, William Lane Craig. Question Hi Dr. Craig, I greatly...

Many resources present the gospel for kids in powerful ways. One treasure created by Charles Spurgeon, the “Prince of Preachers,” is titled “Come...

(Note: My wife, Trudi, and I wrote this post together.) A couple years ago, Trudi and I posted a list of 25 questions that a Christian woman should...

Love is a sloppy concept, and love is a complex reality. I love ice cream. I love my children. I love my wife. I love books. I love God. I love my...

Just think about the meaning of the words in our wedding vows — “for better or for worse . . . in plenty and in want . . . in joy and in sorrow . ....

My friend, Pastor Joby Martin, has a new book out about manhood. In a world where young men are in crisis, and where there are a lot of sources of...

She broke her promise. She vowed to love, respect, and stay faithful to her husband — for better or worse, for richer or poorer, in sickness and...

There has been a lot of talk recently about why kids leave the church. In the past few years, there have been important books on the subject by...

We’re not relationship experts. Certainly not. But we raised four daughters and we’ve talked to a lot of college-aged women about relationships...

After thirty years of ministry, I feel more burdened for the lives of young men than I have ever felt before. Has a more challenging time existed for a young man to figure out who he is supposed to be?

In the last four years, my husband and I have experienced the gradual emptying of our nest as we have sent two of our three children off to...

The following is the seventh post in a series of eight posts exploring the beauty of gender from a biblical perspective. Read the first post, The...

The following is the second post in a series of eight posts exploring the beauty of gender from a biblical perspective. Read the first post, "The...

I recently received an email from a former student living in a challenging country in the Middle East. He asked me a question that I would assume...

Ecclesiastes 3 tells us there is a time for everything. There is a time or season for laughing, speaking and dancing — and we typically resonate...

I recently published an article on the meaning of sexual intimacy in marriage in the academic journal, Eikon: A Journal for Biblical Anthropology....

Everyone who is old enough to remember the attacks on the United States has their September 11 story. We all remember where we were, what we were...

Todas las personas que recuerdan los atentados contra los Estados Unidos tienen su historia personal del 11 de septiembre del 2001. Todos...

Suppose a Christian young man or woman is considering attending a Christian college. Which college should he or she attend? What criteria should be...