Category Archives: Forgiveness
Marriage: Keep Calm and Carry On | The Good News About Marriage
Christian marriages—keep calm and carry on! Following the Lord does make a huge difference on both the satisfaction and longevity of your most important relationship. Watch Dr. Dave passionately deliver his Sunday...
Marriage: Gifts at the Wall
Gifts at the Wall: Showing Reconciliation Intention What is a WALL? A WALL is an intentional, emotional barrier that prevents relational connection. What causes these WALLS to go up? These interpersonal...
Facing Temptation in Your Life
She came to me. Early twenties. Broken, confused and defeated. Why? She had repeatedly given in to the draw of being sexually intimate with her soon-to-be fiancé. She knew it was...
Marriage: The Power Of A Full-On Apology
To keep any relationship strong, it is as much about how well you forgive as it is how well you love. The apology-forgiveness cycle is one of the hardest skills to...
Marriage: The Kite & The Blender
The Kite & The Blender: Approach Extremes to Stress and Conflict The kite and the blender. To be honest, I see a lot of this between couples. Often, these two extreme...
Marriage: The Dangerous Slide into an Internet Affair
The Dangerous Slide into an Internet Affair *Story Used with Permission The key word is fantasy. More and more of us are living there it seems these days. It's the world...
Marriage: The Challenge of Rebuilding Trust in Marriage
Betrayal in Marriage—The Challenge of Re-building Trust Betrayal in marriage rolls through my office like semi-trucks into a weigh station. On the freeway of life, people experience incredible emotional wreckage when...
Marriage: Attracted to Someone Outside Your Marriage?
Q & A with Dr. Dave & Donalyn Currie—What if I find myself attracted to someone else outside our marriage? Dave: Wow, Donalyn, this is a gutsy question! I am really...
Marriage: I Did Not Marry My Best Friend and Here is Why…
It feels like I can’t get through 1 week without someone on Facebook announcing something like “15 years ago today I married my best friend” or a variation of those words. Well, I, for one,...
Marriage: Q & A with Dr. Dave & Donalyn Currie—Helping a Friend in Marriage Crisis
Q: I’ve got a good friend whose marriage is “on the rocks”. They’ve got some big issues, but I really want to see them pull through this. How can I be...
Marriage: The Power of Partnership in Overcoming Pornography
The Top 10 Proverbs of Accountability Men have needed other men for centuries. Whether in the trenches or on the field, being part of a band of brothers is a sacred...
Marriage: Merging Grace—The Art of Two Becoming One
“For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” Mark 10:8 Two becoming one....
Marriage: When Your Marriage Hits the Ditch
The conditions for the journey weren’t looking good as the air between them was cooling to an icy chill. Instability and uncertainty reflected long miles of bad road relationally. It’s true...
Marriage: Companionship—The Third Pillar of an Amazing Marriage
Companionship—The Third Pillar of an Amazing Marriage The Pleasure of Friendship We’ve all heard it said that you want to marry your best friend. It's an assumption that we all make....
Marriage: Do You Have Friends of the Marriage?
Misery loves company. It seems like a universal norm that people tend to look for others who will give them a sympathetic ear regarding the perils being faced in life. But...