Originally posted at LifeWay Women. My lovely wife Christi is Canadian. So was our wedding. If you’ve ever been to a Canadian wedding you understand the reception north of the border tends to be more elaborate than its American counterpart. In the months prior to our wedding, Christi’s mum put together a lifelong video highlight… View Post
Archives for October 2016
21 Parenting Tips for the 21st Century
By Michael Refiner, Thriveworks The birth of new technologies in the 20th Century was supposed to make our lives easier and provide more time for family, personal interests, or just to relax. Instead, the pace has picked up. Work demands have become more hectic. Our schedules are overloaded. But our children – – not much… View Post
Becoming an Emotionally Safe Spouse — Dr. Josh + Christi LIVE Video
Last week we had a conversation about being emotionally safe in marriage. Christi and I got into an honest conversation about an incident that happened that very night. Here are a few key highlights: We define emotional safety as the posture from which we relate to one another. The enemy has come to steal, kill,… View Post
4 Questions to Ask Yourself Before You Have Kids
I had a few shocking revelations when I first became a parent. First, I grossly underestimated the amount of time and energy these living, breathing, screaming, hungry, sleepless, restless, 100-percent-dependent-upon-us human beings require of us. Even as a counselor and coach, I was ill-prepared for the chaos about to invade our home. Secondly, until this… View Post