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Marriage question 1:
as we promised a couple weeks ago, we’d like to post every few days one of the questions we didn’t have time for during our panel discussion on Aug 28th with married folks from within our community.
WIthout further ado, question 1: “what is the ONE piece of advice you have for singles wanting to get married?”
is it possible to transact love and commitment without dating as we know it?
Thanks to all who participated in our panel discussion on Marriage last Sunday. Your questions were honest and insightful, as were the answers. As promised, tomorrow we’ll begin posting some of the questions here we didn’t have time for Sunday, and invite those on the panel to contribute short or long responses.
Today, though, a thought related to dating. Sunday afternoon brought us in touch with one of Ken Burns’ American Stories. Here’s the link of the relevant segment:
PBS – THE WEST – P.S. I Like You Very Much
In this segment, Burns lets Ethel Waxman and George Schlichting tell of their courtship by way of their letters to one another over several years. Read the rest of this entry »
my, how things have….changed?
At least by this account, the long lost days of marital fidelity may be more legend than history. Here’s a look at how singleness, courtship, and marriage operated in the Colonial days of America.
compatibility in a different sense
Maureen Dowd has in recent years been quite the object of criticism for her explorations of the male sex,
but this just came across my inbox (HT: Kirk DeBoer): an op-ed piece on what constitutes the kind of person suitable for marriage.
Last Sunday we began to discuss how compatibility should enter into one’s thinking about whom to marry. Read the rest of this entry »
is marriage really being delayed, or just opted for later?
The purported reasons for the current trend to marry later than in previous generations or eras seems tokeep growing with time. Here’s one more reasonable deduction. Agree or disagree?
longer than the longest haul you could imagine
if you’ve had time to read the story we distributed this morning of Robertson McQuilkin and his wife, Muriel, here’s a little more to their story.
If you’d like to see a brief excerpt from his resignation speech, click here.
pre-nuptial or post-nuptial: one series fits all
hey, we’re going to take several weeks (maybe 5) and talk about marriage openly and honestly, 
underthescrutiny of Scripture and in the community of God’s people. Hope you can join us. Here’s a little more detail.
Wanted you also to be aware of something PCPC is offering for free for the next several days Read the rest of this entry »
looking for a soul-mate?
“you had me at ‘hello.'”
“you complete me”
Jerry Maguire articulated perhaps what more people, than would care to admit, think. The notion of a soul-mate–a seemingly perfectly fitted and compatible human being for marriage. Legitimate aspiration or pipe-dream?
Gary Thomas, author of, among other things, Sacred Marriage, has a few things to say about the notion.
staying untied
should you ever marry? isn’t it too much of a minefield? haven’t we seen enough relational and familial carnage to look at marriage with deep suspicion?
Mike Bullmore has a few things to say on the matter. It’s one sermon in a series found here.
marriage requires and update in your prescription
We strike a balance around here–at least we try to: there are times for saying loudly and clearly, “singleness is not a second-class existence and possesses privileges as significant to the life in Christ as those that accrue to marriage.”
There is also time for speaking of and for marriage, and doing all we can to prepare you for it if you’re single, and fortify you in it if you’re married. To that end, here’s a series of youtube videos (HT: Between Two Worlds) from the author of When Sinners Say, I Do, Dave Harvey. They’re brief synopses of each chapter. Read the rest of this entry »
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