Love & Sex Category

  • Three Great Loves

    Steve Arterburn Let me suggest three things that every father can focus on today’and everyday’that are mandatory for accomplishing God’s purposes in the lives of your children.   First, fathers must love God. The only…

  • Friendship After Forty?

    Steve Arterburn A motivational speaker noted in his talk that after age forty, men typically possess no close friends. What’s a man to do? We can learn from him. When he and his fianc’e were…

  • Hope And Healing

    Steve Arterburn In recent days I’ve discussed the importance of fathers passing on blessing and affirmation to their sons. But for many of you, this begs the question: What should a grown man do who…

  • Ingredients Of A Blessing

    Steve Arterburn Men, do you want to bless your sons? Here are four essential ingredients for doing so: 1)      The first is identity. Everyone wants to know who they are and whose they are. A…

  • Lifestyle And Spiritual Leadership

    Steve Arterburn I recently read three pearls of wisdom from a Christian educator that I want to share with you. They pertain to God’s command to parents to provide spiritual leadership for their children.  …

  • Moving Beyond Parental Expectations

    Steve Arterburn In his book Men’s Secret Wars, Patrick Means suggests three questions to help men identify whether or not they’ve moved beyond parental expectations. They are as follows: 1)      Did my father communicate to…

  • Second-Guessing In Marriage

    Steve Arterburn At some point, almost every man feels incompatible with his spouse. During those times, most men secretly wonder if they should’ve married someone else. They harbor that secret from their wives for fear…

  • Struggling With Silence

    Steve Arterburn A man wrote this comment about his relationship with his wife: ‘I did not reveal myself to her. I stuffed many of my thoughts, emotions, and needs that I feared would lead to…

  • Temporary But Not Optional

    Steve Arterburn There’s a growing tendency in our culture to minimize the importance of the father’s role in the family. In fact, there have even been studies that attempt to demonstrate the father’s place in…

  • A Father's Affirmation

    Steve Arterburn Like most adolescents, I swore I wouldn’t become like my father. Yet the older I get the more I realize how blessed I was to have him in my life. I also realize…