Please explain: Why did God give the Ten Commandments?
Why did God give the Ten Commandments? Anchorage, Alaska, is one of those places where you can experience weather extremes. It can snow in July. There can be a heat…
Q&A: What if spouses don’t “love” each other anymore?
What does the Bible have to say about spouses who don’t “love” each other anymore? It seems fairly common nowadays that spouses talk about how they have grown apart and…
Parent conversations: How can parents maintain a healthy marriage?
Maintaining a healthy marriage requires work for any couple, but when you add kids into the mix, it can get more challenging because your time is divided into even more…
Please explain: Is God’s design for marriage relevant in today’s world?
It's not difficult to find God’s definition of marriage. “At the beginning,” Jesus said, “the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave…
Q&A: Is it okay to live together if we are planning to get married?
My fiancée and I are living together and plan to get married in a year, but my parents say it’s still wrong. Doesn’t the fact that we are planning to…
Parent conversations: How can I explain the Sixth Commandment to a young child?
Recently my six-year-old came home from his Lutheran elementary school, and I overheard him ask his older siblings, “What is ‘adultery’?” Apparently his class was memorizing the Sixth Commandment, and…
Wedded widows and widowers
After God created Eve, he presented her to Adam. “The man said, ‘This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called “woman,” for…
New videos encourage married couples to “take a moment”
“Marriage is foundational to so many things in our society, including our congregations,” says Donn Dobberstein, director of WELS Discipleship. “If we want solid congregations, healthy marriages are so important.…
Light for our path: What does a submissive wife in a Christian marriage look like?
What does a submissive wife in a Christian marriage look like? James F. Pope While Scripture provides the definitive answer, I also will be passing along excerpts—in quotation marks—from wives who gave me real-world insights. These wives had ties to courses…
