love | jimpemberton's Tags

Weblog » Tags » love (all)

Rare Tips to a Godly Marriage

My wife and I are in our 14th year since walking the aisle. I have some experience in the work and life required to make a healthy marriage. Everyone who talks about godly Christian marriages talks about communication, h…
Whatever Happened to Courting?

Apparently, "hooking up" is the new norm. Where once teens dated a few times and if things worked out they might have sex, now it seems that they have a sex a few times and if things work out they might go on a date. Wh…
The Fairness of God - Being Fair to Others

By request from ionekoa, I'm expounding on a comment I made on a recent post by cotton_candy_confetti. Specifically, I will address two questions: Is God fair?If he's not fair, does that mean that life and love are not …
Old Photos - When Mom met Dad: 1961-1965

You may notice that most of the photos lately feature my mom. That's because she enjoyed photography throughout her early adulthood. She was an artist of both sight and sound with photography and painting as well as musi…
Something Light for V-Day

For many years I had a difficult time understanding membersof the fairer gender. Here are a couple of examples recently found in thecomics: Earlier in my life I was baffled by the fact that the girls I knew…
Spiritual Discernment in Marriage

Speaking as someone who is in a successful marriage I can tell you that the ride gets bumpy. Emotions change. Bodies change. We go through spiritually dark times in our lives. We go through dire physical ailments. How ma…
Infidelity and Divorce Among the Faithful

Emotional attraction is a mysterious thing to me. It seems that there are so many factors in the attraction equation. In all cases, the question of attraction can be boiled down to one observation, and that is this: that…
What's the Measure of Your Heart?

"A heart is not judged by how much you love but by how much you are loved by others." The Wizard of Oz (to the Tin Man) Are you lovable? None of us are intrinsically lovable. One might wonder if the Wiz even had it righ…
The Greatest Thing I Don’t Know

"Knowledge makes arrogant, but love edifies." I Cor. 8:1 There are those who generate knowledge and those who use knowledge. Ultimately, all knowledge is created by God. Some knowledge is discovered like the laws of phy…
I Like My Coffee Like I like My Women...

I like my coffee like I like my women: [fill in the blank]. The very statement is suggestive without the punch line. Some answers I’ve heard are cute – others pretentious or suggestive. All in all, I like coffee enough t…