To love is a COMMAND. During our engagement, we heard a speaker say that love is “a maximum of evaluation and a minimum of emotion.” We, like any other engaged couple, didn’t believe that for a minute. We had a maximum of emotion and a minimum of evaluation. But after we were married for awhile, […]
Persevering Love
As you walk along the road in your journey toward spiritual intimacy, you are going to come across some ruts, chuck holes and boulders in your path. The enemy is going to make quite sure you encounter a lot of rough places. And why shouldn’t he? Satan’s agenda is to make you give up…to quit…not […]
Marital Intimacy
by Harold & Bette Gillogly If a recipe is followed exactly, the results will be exactly what the recipe intended. The cake, cookies, casserole… whatever the recipe was for will be delicious. God has given us His recipe for a loving, lasting, fulfilling marriage relationship. In the last SEEDS FOR GROWTH, we talked about the […]
Persevering Love
Before we look at God’s list of ingredients, we need to establish a couple of basic principles. The first principle is that we can not make our mates stick to the recipe. We can’t nag them into it, shame them, badger them or convince them into it. Even hinting doesn’t work. But we can choose […]