Pictured above: Joshua Rogers and his father *************************** By Joshua Rogers, Washington, D.C. attorney and author. This essay is adapted from his book “Confessions of a Happily Married Man: Finding God in the Messiness of Marriage.” Rogers also blogs at: http://www.joshuarogers.com    My wife didn’t know what to expect the first time she met […]
2198) What About the In-Laws? Read More »
By Joshua Rogers, posted November 17, 2019, at: http://www.joshuarogers.com —————————————    It was 9:20 a.m. on a Monday morning and I was about to appear on Fox and Friends for an interview with Steve Doocey. The interview happened after FoxNews.com published an op-ed of mine called “What happened when my daughter saw me kiss
2164) “How Are You REALLY Doing?” Read More »
From a 2018 wedding sermon:    The text for my meditation today comes from the funny papers; from a comic strip called Pearls Before Swine (see above; January 21, 2018). I have a Biblical text also, but first this. It is called “The Six Stages of Marriage” and it contains six frames. I will
2028) “You Are the Greatest Thing That Ever Happened to Me” Read More »
By Mark Galli, managing editor of Christianity Today ( http://www.christianitytoday.com ) ———————————     It didn’t take long into my marriage to discover how incompatible my wife and I were. One reason I was attracted to Barbara in the first place was her apparent interest in theology. We’d spent many happy hours in college taking Bible and
1999) Irreconcilable Differences– So What? Read More »
By Heather Delaney, July 28, 2018, at: http://www.foxnews.com  ———————-    Last Sunday, we argued.    Actually, to use the word argued may be a little misleading.    We ignored.    That is how we argue around here. We don’t verbally fight. We don’t scream. We don’t use curse words or name
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By Joshua Rogers at: http://www.joshuarogers.com    In my first year of marriage, my wife and I got into a disagreement while visiting a family member’s home. We went to the guest room to hash it out privately but we had no idea how badly we were about to embarrass ourselves.    While in
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   Anna and Bryan. the first Scripture reading you selected for this day, Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 says: “Two are better than one, because if either of them falls down, one can help the other one up.” Those words remind me of the story of creation in Genesis two, where God says, “It is not good
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Posted by Joshua Rogers, March 14, 2018 at: http://www.joshuarogers.com    I sat on a park bench visiting with the woman who would be my wife and tried to ignore my sad, racing heart. Our relationship was about to end — not because I wanted it to — because she was about to learn the
1807) “I’m Not Going Anywhere” Read More »
Above comic strip: Pearls Before Swine, by Stephan Pastis, January 21, 2018 ********************* “IN THEIR LOSS, THEY FOUND EACH OTHER”  By Elizabeth Livingston, page 16, Newsweek, January 10, 2005. —————————–    “I love you, Bob.” “I love you, too, Nancy.” It was 2:00 a.m., and I was hearing my parents’ voices through the thin
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By Joshua Rogers, “The Big Surprise I found in My Marriage — After Nine Years,” posted December 30, 2017, at http://www.joshuarogers.com ————————-    I had been sitting on the edge of my bed for about 20 minutes when my wife, Raquel, walked in. I didn’t even look up.    “I can’t do this,”
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