What kind of person should I marry? Love is most often what leads people to agree to marry but it is marriage that sustains the relationship when love ebbs and flows.”  Love can initiate marriage, but it is marriage that keeps love alive. The life-long commitment of marriage is only possible if two people make a covenant that is much stronger than the feelings of love.  We all know how much we need to belong, to know where we fit, to know what “home” is. People thrive when they live in stable relationships. Life-long marriage is the basis of that…

117 billion people have ever lived on planet earth from the beginning of time to the present. From the Population Reference Bureau and the World Economic Forum: “Calculating the number of people who have ever lived is part science and part art. No demographic data exist for more than 99% of the span of human existence. Still, with some assumptions about population size throughout human history, we can get a rough idea of this number:  About 117 billion members of our species have ever been born on Earth.” How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth? | PRB 8-13 billion…

Degradation of Sex and Marriage in America   God’s design for marriage is set forth in scripture as one man and one woman in a covenant of marriage until death parts them. The purposes are mutual benefit, enjoyment, and the procreation of children. Until about 70 years ago, the above definition of marriage in Western Civilization was assumed, protected, and promoted. Adultery, sex outside of marriage, homosexuality, prostitution, etc. were certainly present but socially unacceptable and often illegal. THEN in the mid-20th Century, things began to change significantly. Sex was separated from a life-long marriage covenant by prostitution and no-fault…

Unrestrained individual autonomy is the scourge of the family and the nation! “Men and women do NOT marry, bring children into the world, and endure the many years of hardship and sacrifice involved in remaining married and bringing their children to maturity merely because of an assessment that doing so will contribute to their personal health and prosperity. (And for those who do so, it is no wonder their marriages and families disintegrate.) The purpose of the family is rather something else entirely. Marriage and family are instituted in order to pass on to another generation an inheritance that has…