God's Knot Blog — wedding

Is the Church in America shrinking? Some recent surveys have indicated that while approximately 40% of Americans "say" that they attend church, a survey of the churches in America reveals that perhaps as few as 20% of Americans are actually participating in worship services across the country on Sunday. As Christians, it is important for us to be aware of the state of the Church here at home and around the world. God has called us to take the gospel message to His children throughout the world... even if that world is right in our own back yard. So how...

When William posted his and Mandi’s wedding vows a couple of months ago they made me think back to my wedding day. Its been nine years now. I can’t believe how quickly it has gone. It also brought back some of the wedding planning stress. I never dreamed planning my wedding would be so hard. The sheer amount of people and details you have to account for is daunting enough. Add trying to please two families with very different ideas of the hows and whys… Anyways I digress, we chose not to write our vows. I think at the time it was...

In an ideal world, boy meets girl, they fall in love, get married, and happily ever after is a given. Yet its important to remember real life doesn’t follow that fairytale mold, and for far too many people their happily ever after never comes.  The Internet is full of disheartening statistics. You’ve probably heard most of them before. Half of all marriages in the US end in divorce. If you get married too young, or too quickly your marriage is doomed. If you didn’t go to college or live together first, you might as well not even try…the list goes...