By Pete Briscoe
October 15, 2020
God created marriage to strip away our flesh and make us more like Jesus. If we bail on marriage to get away from this pain, however, we actually cause more of it.
By Pete Briscoe
October 14, 2020
Winning a war takes devoted commitment to a cause. When an army burns a bridge behind them on their way to a battle, they are cutting off their only possibility of retreat...
By Pete Briscoe
October 13, 2020
People who feel they have strong marriages are 140% more likely to be in a healthy small group than those who are struggling with their marriage.
By Pete Briscoe
October 12, 2020
My wife is not Jesus. But even after being raised by a pastor, going to Bible school, and graduating from seminary, I believed she was Jesus.
By Pete Briscoe
October 11, 2020
Christian colleges can be like meat markets. Church single groups can be the same. Sometimes I wonder if the singles in those classes are into God or into the look of the person next to them.
By Pete Briscoe
October 10, 2020
A few years back, the Pew Poll reported that 44% of Americans under 30 believe marriage is heading for extinction, but 95% of Americans want to get married someday. That’s interesting, isn’t it?
By Pete Briscoe
October 9, 2020
Late one night, about five years ago, my wife and I found ourselves sitting in our kitchen. We started talking and it went something like this...
By Pete Briscoe
October 8, 2020
Hopefully we’ve put some meat on the skeleton of “A great marriage comes from two people walking in the Spirit, loving one another.” Now I’m going to ask you to take another step.
By Pete Briscoe
October 7, 2020
Recognizing the flesh is easy when it has negative expressions. It’s easy to see the junk when “performance flesh” burns us out, when “superior flesh” lashes out, or when “caretaker flesh” perpetuates destructive relationships...
By Pete Briscoe
October 6, 2020
True Christianity is pretty crazy stuff. Its ways are so backwards from the things we have learned—so much so, that we might overlook the principles...