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  This article is not meant to be an exhaustive treatment of marital roles and issues. It is simply meant to be a short primer that may be used by biblical counselors who are helping couples understand their roles and the seriousness before God of their submission to him. The thoughts and ideas here are […]

Introduction This article will investigate the behavior of the dominant husband. In this article, I will look at the secular view of dominant husbands, the Christian response to dominant husbands, and how biblical counselors can help those husbands and wives who are in marriages where the husbands display this behavior. In the past, dominant husbands […]

If published statistics are true, 66% or more of second marriages including children from previous marriages fail. This may be due in part to the increased stress experienced by all members of a new step, or blended family. Stress in a new family situation is normal. Even if the transition appears to be going well, […]

I was recently asked to comment on the term Soul Oneness.  When I inquired as to where the person had heard the term, he referred me to chapter 2 of Larry Crabb’s book, The Marriage Builder,[1] titled, Soul Oneness: Manipulation or Ministry?  I remembered skimming this chapter many years ago, so I took a second […]

First published around 2004, the book, Love and Respect, by Emerson Eggerichs gained immediate following. It has again come to the forefront of much Christian thinking in the area of marriage. One of the basic premises in the book is what the author calls the Crazy Cycle. The crazy cycle is that without love the […]