Tag: Marriage
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Why Christians might want to mingle somewhere besides Christian Mingle
This is part of a new series I’m doing in discussing dating, relationships, and marriage from a Christian perspective. I’m a pastor and I met my wife online. Pretty much 100% of people who know those two things ask, “So did you meet her on Christian Mingle?” I did not (eHarmony, thanks Dr. Warren). Now,…
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The one love language
I’m a huge fan of Dr. Gary Chapman’s book The Five Love Languages. Dr. Chapman is a pastor and marriage counselor, and his love languages is a theory that everyone primarily receives love in one of five ways. The love languages are: Quality time Physical touch Words of affirmation Acts of service Gifts All of the love…
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Focus on being the right person, not finding the right person
We live in a soulmate focused society. We love the idea of finding the one. As a millennial, perhaps it’s because our generation grew up with VHS and we were able to watch and rewatch and rewatch the same Disney movies over and over again, seeing the happily ever after. But in fairytales, we never actually…
Josh Benner 