Tag: marriage
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Friday Flashback: When Hope Ends and Somehow Begins Again
Featuring Natasha Bedingfield — Soulmate There are songs that don’t just remind you of a time period. They remind you of who you were emotionally when you lived inside that season of life. Soulmate was that song for me. Around 2010, I listened to it constantly while an on-again, off-again relationship finally, definitively ended. And…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Pop Culture, Love, and the Truth About Marriage
Having to navigate the shattered shards of my parents’ marriage made me skeptical about love from the beginning. Their subsequent debacle of relationships left the kids as casualties, and I carried that distrust into adulthood. Later, working in VIP Services on the Las Vegas Strip, I saw another side of broken vows—men gleefully repeating the…
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When the Lights Go Down: What a Jumbotron, Coldplay, and a Slow Fade Reveal About Us
It was meant to be a magical moment. The glow of the Jumbotron, the swell of the music, and an interactive moment with the crowd. But as Coldplay’s Chris Martin scanned the audience and cheekily remarked that the couple ducking the camera was either “shy or having an affair,” the stadium erupted in laughter. But…
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The War on God’s Design: How Society is Undermining Our True Identity
In today’s culture, we are constantly encouraged to “be our most authentic selves.” On the surface, this sounds empowering. Who wouldn’t want to live life true to who they are? However, the issue arises when being your “authentic self” becomes an excuse to reject God’s design and nature. We see it happening all around us:…
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