College of Marriage is now available online at https://www.rbcommunity.org/event:5o9W3vqBIEYRbYt90GJrGu College of Marriage is a 15 week marriage enrichment curriculum written and presented by my colleague, Carolyn Klusmeier and myself. The lecture portion of the classes is now available on video. You can also download the Powerpoints and the exercises. The classes were 90 minutes, but […]
November 21, 2019
Here’s the script from the college of marriage session on sex. This is a fairly candid discussion. Consider it PG-13. Welcome to the college of marriage session 8. In this session we are going to talk about sex. We need to have a candid conversation about sex. This is a topic that I talk about […]
June 21, 2017
Ladies, picture this. You go for a drink in the hotel bar. At one table there is a group of men downing rounds of shots. A moderately out of shape[1] (and somehow familiar) redhead starts checking you out. He separates from the group and comes over to you. He puts a Van Morrison song on […]
January 11, 2017
Since DVR’s came into common usage, I rarely see commercials anymore. If I do, it is either 1) in the gym (no audio), 2) during a football game (sadly watching the Chargers fall apart), or 3) the first commercial in the break is interesting enough to grab my attention before I can get to the […]
August 30, 2016
I was listening to American Top 40 a couple of weeks ago, and Ryan Seacrest was announcing that Elle King’s “Ex’s and Oh’s” had been in the top 40 for 55 weeks. That’s over a year that the song has been a hit. With the overwhelming success of the song, it seems there is a […]
June 4, 2016
This post is a marital public service announcement of the sort you don’t see very often. To make my point, I need to be comparatively explicit. Consider this a warning of a PG-13 rating. In my practice, I frequently see middle aged couples who have encountered difficulties with their sex life. Often this takes the […]
November 1, 2015
This video report on the impact of porn use is about 23 minutes long, so it will take more time than reading a typical blog post. It doesn’t require much further comment from me but to say that it is good information. No moralizing[1], just science. Porn use is really damaging. http://www.3news.co.nz/tvshows/3d/is-free-pornography-destroying-our-brains-2015100515#axzz3niPOtlkX [1] Though […]
April 16, 2015
The wife of a pastor friend of mine once remarked that if God had not cranked up the sex drive on men that they would have been completely undomesticatable (if that is a word). It is certainly true that our gender is very visually stimulated. Jesus warned against even looking at a woman with lust […]
July 20, 2020
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