In May 1969, US Command ordered the frontal assault of a heavily fortified hill in Vietnam. They eventually took it, but at a heavy cost – 72 Americans died and 372 were wounded, all to take a hill of little or no strategic value. The fact that they purposely gave the hill up soon thereafter led to nothing short of a public relations disaster, and the beginning of the end of the Vietnam War. Choosing which "hills" are worth dying on isn’t just the realm of top military brass, it’s something we … [Read more...]
How To Pick The Woman of Your Dreams
We spend our lives making choices. We choose what foods to eat, what products to purchase, what jobs to do. Most of the choices we make don’t really matter in the long-run. They are neutral – the difference between spaghetti and lasagna for dinner one evening, or what to wear to church tomorrow. Others, however, need to be approached with much more care. Who to marry is just such a choice. Choose correctly, and you are in for a lifetime of love with the person of your dreams. (Please don’t … [Read more...]
How does Biblical submission affect husbands?
Please join us over at A Biblical Marriage for our June post - Four Ways Biblical Submission Affects the Husband. Greetings ABM readers! It’s me again, that glutton for punishment who, back in February, stuck his neck out so far that he could have been mistaken for a giraffe. What did I do, you ask? Well, I wrote an article entitled ‘Why should my wife obey me?’ I was pretty ssscared, to be sure, but, fortunately for me and for my long-suffering wife who depends on me to help feed and clothe … [Read more...]