Blogs

What Principles Guide My First Meeting With A Couple In A Marital Crisis?
A dozen principles and four words of counsel.

6 Cautions When Preaching Redemptive-Historical Themes
From John Frame.

Forgiveness and the Christian’s Piety
“The 12 most important words for your marriage–or, really for any relationship. These are 12 words that can change, strengthen, and renew any relationship. These 12 words are: I was wrong. I am sorry. Please forgive me. I love you.”

Culture

You Will Be Assimilated
Jonathan Last: “The same-sex marriage movement is interested in a great deal more than just the freedom to form marital unions. It is also interested, quite keenly, in punishing dissenters. But the ambitions of the movement go further than that, even. It’s about revisiting legal notions of freedom of speech and association, constitutional protections for religious freedom, and cultural norms concerning the family.”

Everything You Thought You Knew About Love Is Wrong
Some fascinating facts in the romance industry.

  • The biggest changes have been brought by the $2.4 billion online-­dating industry.
  • 38% of Americans who describe themselves as “single and looking” have used an online-­dating site.
  • Throughout all our interviews—and in research on the subject—this is a consistent finding: in online dating, women get a ton more attention than men.
  • The kind of partner people said they were looking for didn’t match up with the kind of partner they were actually interested in.
  • Despite the nuanced information that people put up on their profiles, the factor that they rely on most when preselecting a date is looks.
  • OkCupid founder Christian Rudder estimates, based on data from his own site, that photos drive 90% of the action in online dating.
  • In the U.S., marriage rates are at historic lows—the rate of marriages per 1,000 single women dropped almost 60% from 1970 to 2012.
  • Americans are also joining the international trend of marrying later; for the first time in history, the typical American now spends more years single than married.

Kindle Books

Running Scared: Fear, Worry, and the God of Rest by Ed Welch $2.51.

Jesus Among Other Gods: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message by Ravi Zacharias $2.99.

Humilitas: A Lost Key to Life, Love, and Leadership by John Dickson $2.99.

More Kindle books here.

New Book Recommendation

Piety: The Heartbeat of Reformed Theology
More of a booklet than a book, and a bit on the pricey side for 40 pages. But still, this little booklet could transform your life.