Gretchen Louise 1 minute Our new pastor is preaching through Philippians. He said the first time he preached through Philippians it took him just a couple months. He’s been here over a month and we’ve covered the first twenty-one verses. It’s refreshing to have some old-fashioned verse-by-verse teaching. Give me that over a topical sermon any time! The topics…
Gretchen Louise 4 Minute Read “This country will not survive another generation of Christians that fit in.” Josh Harris said it. His little brothers are spreading the message. My husband picked up Do Hard Things at the library for me yesterday, and I’ve already read it cover to cover. Not that I’m biased towards homeschooling Oregonians, but those Harris brothers…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read I’m so thankful that we’ll have an eternity in Heaven to fellowship with other believers. Our times together with other kindred spirits here on earth are altogether too short. We hadn’t even finished our mochas and teas on Saturday before Merritt and I were saying goodbye to Garret and Melinda. (In fact, Melinda’s tea was…
Gretchen Louise 2 Minute Read It was a feast for a booklover’s eyes. Row after row of bookshelves over ten feet tall, filled with old books. And not just old books–antiques, first editions, hardcovers. I could have spent a week there. But alas, Merritt and I had a plane to catch the next morning. And somehow it didn’t seem his…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read “Can you believe we’re married?” It’s a question my husband Merritt and I have asked each other often in the last almost two years. It seemed too good to be true. Best friends for so many years, finally being married to each other made our cup truly overflow. The other night, as we lay there…
Gretchen Louise 1 minute This morning’s sermon on divorce was the best I’ve ever heard. (Of course, it would not take all the fingers on one hand to number the sermons I have heard on divorce. Despite the fact that I’ve gone to church since the first Sunday of my life. And grew up during a time of skyrocketing…
Gretchen Louise 4 Minute Read Asking for advice, a reader wrote: “It gets a little frustrating sometimes, knowing that he is the man I am supposed to marry, yet we can’t move forward with our lives and get married because we are both still in college.” Or because he doesn’t have a job. Or because my parents want us to…
Gretchen Louise 6 Minute Read If you want to make your husband the happiest man in the world, then start right now. When your boyfriend talks to you, listen with your eyes, not just your ears. When you are married, there will be many more distractions to get in the way, and fewer opportunities for good conversation–take advantage of them…
Gretchen Louise 2 Minute Read written January 2007 Last Saturday, I watched as my cousin Brian slipped a ring on his new bride’s finger.The pictures in their slide show coordinated perfectly with the lyrics of the new Country song by Heartland, “I Loved Her First.”And as the vocalists sang Newsong’s “When God Made You,” we all rejoiced together with Brian…
Gretchen Louise 2 Minute Read Ever since their first date (a Sunday afternoon presentation of The Messiah), she had known he was the one. “I laid it before the Lord and left it there,” she wrote. But she was called as a missionary to Tibet, and he was not. “Do you believe that God brought us together?” he asked her…
Gretchen Louise 3 Minute Read I don’t know where I heard it, but it’s always stuck in my mind: “Marry a man who will make a good father.” Ever since I met my husband in Yellowstone National Park that day, I knew he liked children. My little sister was just 1-year-old at the time, and though 13-year-old Merritt and I…
Gretchen Louise 2 Minute Read As a wedding present, relatives from New Mexico gave us this unique wedding vase. Janey told me the double opening represented the fact that now we would both drink from the same well. A few months later, I was reading Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s new book Proper Care and Feeding of Marriage, and found much the…
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