In Martha Peace’s book The Excellent Wife, she writes, “Giving of yourself to your husband is not going above and beyond the call of duty. It is only doing as you ought. You ought to be kind to your husband. You ought to be open, transparent and honest with him…” She references the following story [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Marriage’
The Call of Duty
Posted in Reality: Ignored, tagged Marriage, Pride, The Excellent Wife on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Pregnancy Trends in the U.S.
Posted in Reality: Ignored, tagged Abortion, Birth Control, Family, Marriage, Pregnancy on April 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I read an article on msnbc.com yesterday that I can’t get out of my mind. The headline read: “Fewer U.S. teens are getting pregnant; But more unmarried women in their 20s had babies, study found.” This study was conducted in 2004, and it revealed exactly what the headline suggests: nearly 38 percent of pregnancies in 2004 [...]
Sin and Unity
Posted in Reality: Ignored, tagged Marriage, Sin, The Excellent Wife, Trinity on April 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
One of the most thought-provoking parts so far of Martha Peace’s book, The Excellent Wife, is her chapter about the wife’s view of relationships. She states, “If they are husband and wife, they are also united by God into ‘one flesh’ (Gen. 2:24). The Hebrew word for ‘one’ is echad which means ‘one, alike, altogeter, or all [...]
A Ministry to my Husband
Posted in Reality: Ignored, tagged Marriage, The Excellent Wife on March 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Last post, we discussed the statement Peace makes in her book, The Excellent Wife, about the wife making her ministry to her husband the priority (second to God) in her life. As promised, here’s a post about what my ministry to my husband practically looks like.
If my most important ministry is to my husband, I [...]
My Primary Ministry
Posted in Reality: Ignored, tagged Marriage, The Excellent Wife on March 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A while ago, I wrote about my endeavor to read The Excellent Wife by Martha Peace. Click here to read that post. I have been working my way through this book rather slowly, but I have been negligent of my poor blog of late. We have moved out of our old stinky apartment into a [...]
