Picturepocket's Blog

Category: marriage

  • Man versus Baby

    Over the years, I have heard men complain that women have friend-zoned them. By the accusatory tone, I guess they are using friend-zone to mean when a woman leads on a man with attention, but when they try to make a move, the woman says, “Oh you’re just a friend.” Recently, I remembered an incident…

  • Genesis 2:21 Woman

    The Lord caused the man to fall asleep and took his rib and made a woman. The man said “at last, bone of my bone, and flesh of my flesh.” He called her woman meaning taken from man. Adam saw himself in Eve.  The text says, “therefore a man shall leave his parents and join…

  • 2 Corinthians 6: Soft Skills

    Paul is continuing in Chapter 6 his appeal to the Corinthians on behalf God to take the gift of Christ seriously. He quotes Isaiah about God’s faithfulness to hear and respond to his people’s call to him. He calls it the Day of Salvation.  Paul lists all the obstacles that they have overcome with weapons…

  • 1 Corinthians 16: Living Saints 

    In the last chapter of his letter, Paul encourages the church in Corinthian to put aside money to support the saints in Jerusalem and a talks about his missionary travel plans. Here, he uses the term “saints” not as a wall of dead icons, but living companions and ministers of the faith.  He asks the…

  • 1 Corinthians 13: 4-13 Loveology

    According to Paul, the man that never married, “Love is patient and kind.” In a world where you can be anything, a titan of industry, or a chief of police, kindness and patience often get trampled underfoot. Yet, there is another, better way.  “Love does not envy, or boast; it is not arrogant or rude.”…

  • 1 Corinthians 7: Happily Single

    (If anyone quotes you this book in regard to sex and marriage, please do yourself a favor and read the whole thing first before taking any further action. Paul clearly states that he is telling his opinion in response to a question that the reader posed in some earlier correspondence. Since Paul doesn’t restate the…

  • Coupled

    When it comes to relationships, there is often friction between people when they each want the other to change to meet the their own preferences. Which things are legitimate requests to make and which are not? I think it boils down to character versus personality. We should all strive to be the best versions of…

  • The Checkup

    When I was an adolescent, I was nervous about going to the doctor, but my middle school required a trip to the clinic before participation in after-school sports. Everything was going fine, but apparently, I winced while the doctor was prodding my abdomen. When asked asked if it hurt when I peed, I lied, “No.”…