God's Knot Blog — marriage

A headline on Facebook that caught my attention: Are you present in your life? At first my answer was a resounding yes! “How could I not be present in my life?”, I thought to myself as I kept scrolling thru my newsfeed on my iPad while waiting in line at the grocery store, already late for work. The ringing of my phone in my pocket alerted me seconds later that I had new emails. As minutes passed and I scrolled through the six new emails I received, my mind continually went back to the question. Am I present in my...

Love is usually the first thing to be brought up when talking about marriage. In reality, romantic love can be a very small percentage of what makes up a successful marriage. The old saying “marriage is all about compromise”, couldn’t be closer to the truth. Every decision and choice we make once married directly impacts another person’s life. The stakes are raised even higher when kids are added into the mix. Kids change a marriage. They can be your greatest source of joy and also your biggest source of frustration in the space of a few minutes. Just like marriage,...

Sometimes it’s easy to forget that Jesus was a real person who really lived and breathed here on Earth. Do you ever find yourself reading the Bible and plodding along thru the text without pausing to examine the context? Who spoke these words? The gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) give us the account of Jesus life here on Earth. That account includes the words that he spoke and the lessons that he gave. Throughout his ministry, Jesus spoke and taught on many different topics. The sanctity of marriage is one such topic. What did he have to say about marriage? As Matthew records in chapter...

Eight years ago today, Mandi and I were married. We have witnessed God do so much in our lives in those eight years. A few short months into our marriage, Mandi and I founded God’s Knot. We are blessed each day to see how God continues to use God’s Knot in weddings and marriages around the country and throughout the world.  Our February wedding with snow and ice! Having an anniversary today, Mandi and I paused to look back at a few photos from our wedding. It brings smiles to our faces and warms our hearts to remember that special...

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...