This quick article should be valuable for anyone who is married to, or dating, a woman who has children – whether or not those children are also yours. I don’t know if you are similar in your thinking to me, but in my mind, home is where my wife is. I have great kids and…Continue reading Loving a Woman’s Children
Author: Chris Legg
Pastor, public speaker, owner of Alethia counseling, and counselor LPC
Loving A Woman’s Children
This quick article should be valuable for anyone who is married to, or dating, a woman who has children – whether or not those children are also yours. I don’t know if you are similar in your thinking to me, but in my mind, home is where my wife is. I have great kids and…Continue reading Loving A Woman’s Children
Loving A Woman's Children
This quick article should be valuable for anyone who is married to, or dating, a woman who has children – whether or not those children are also yours. I don’t know if you are similar in your thinking to me, but in my mind, home is where my wife is. I have great kids and…Continue reading Loving A Woman's Children
Pray WITH Your Wife – Article 10
Praying With Your Wife Matt 18:20 “For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.” (NASU) Why is it that if you asked me to pray publically in front of a crazy crowd of 50 thousand people, I would happily go for it, but…? I love to pray…Continue reading Pray WITH Your Wife – Article 10
Pray WITH your Wife
Praying With Your Wife Matt 18:20 “For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst.” (NASU) Why is it that if you asked me to pray publically in front of a crazy crowd of 50 thousand people, I would happily go for it, but…? I love to pray…Continue reading Pray WITH your Wife
Loving Your Wife with Limited Resources
You may also have noticed that we have limits.Though many of you may live as though this isn’t true, there are plenty of unlimited resources for us as humans – love, friendship, forgiveness, joy, trust, etc. I will write more about this later, because it isn’t the main purpose of this article, but it fits…Continue reading Loving Your Wife with Limited Resources
The Joy of a Shepherd
Today I had an interesting interaction with a man who happens to be a client that was a great reminder of part of why I wanted to be trained to be a counselor years ago, and why I love having the role of a shepherd in people’s lives. I have been working with a really…Continue reading The Joy of a Shepherd
Pray FOR Your Wife
Pray for her “The most important thing that a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” Rev. Theodore Hesburgh Pray FOR Your Wife (Look for Pray WITH your wife in another article) I am never endingly amazed at how Christian publishing loves to take something that is good and reframe it and…Continue reading Pray FOR Your Wife
Pray FOR your wife – Article 9
Pray for her “The most important thing that a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” Rev. Theodore Hesburgh Pray FOR Your Wife (Look for Pray WITH your wife in another article) I am never endingly amazed at how Christian publishing loves to take something that is good and reframe…Continue reading Pray FOR your wife – Article 9
Favorite Resource (marriage, family, etc.) Books
Marriage books The Surprising Secrets of Highly Successful Marriages by Shaunti Feldhahn You and Me Forever by Francis Chan For Men Only/ For Women Only by Shaunti Feldhahn Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman Romancing Your Husband/Wife by White-Smith The 5 Love Languages by Chapman If Only He Knew by Smalley (for…Continue reading Favorite Resource (marriage, family, etc.) Books
Reading to your wife
If you are reading this through my normal post, I would recommend heading over to my Phalanx page (you can connect to it from the tab at the top of the Home Page)… Now you may be thinking that I meant “read with your wife” or “read to your kids,” (and I highly recommend both of…Continue reading Reading to your wife
Read to your Wife – Article 11
Now you may be thinking that I meant “read with your wife” or “read to your kids,” (and I highly recommend both of those too)… but I meant what I wrote. Though we have been looking for a great book recently, throughout most of our marriage, I have been reading one book or another out…Continue reading Read to your Wife – Article 11
Gauntlet Excerpt – Peter
Peter “From listening comes wisdom; from speaking comes repentance.” – Robert Greenleaf (You can find Peter’s story scattered throughout the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John – reading a couple of them, like Mark and John, should help… and his own letters 1st and 2nd Peter have insight into him as well) Here we have…Continue reading Gauntlet Excerpt – Peter
Gauntlet Excerpt – Peter
Peter “From listening comes wisdom; from speaking comes repentance.” – Robert Greenleaf (You can find Peter’s story scattered throughout the gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John – reading a couple of them, like Mark and John, should help… and his own letters 1st and 2nd Peter have insight into him as well) Here we have…Continue reading Gauntlet Excerpt – Peter
The Gauntlet Bible Study Overview
The Gauntlet, now available from Amazon, is a format for an inspirational study of the some of the key people of the Bible; this first one is directed at men who want to disciple other men or boys and is especially a tool for father’s to use in discipl-ing their sons. Lord willing, the Gauntlet for…Continue reading The Gauntlet Bible Study Overview
Women are different from us (News Flash) – Article 5
Men, (because this is who this is for) though Newsweek and other periodicals make a cover story out of this once a year or so like it is breaking news, you might have already noticed that women aren’t like us. You may have even asked yourself “why?” I doubt if you have gone this far…Continue reading Women are different from us (News Flash) – Article 5
How to pay a woman a compliment – Article 8
Compliments “Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.” Sophia Loren – Women and Beauty Guidelines 1. Use details – women communicate in subtle ways, so the more specific the compliment, the better. In other words, the greatest compliment to you might be “hey, you look great!” It wouldn’t be…Continue reading How to pay a woman a compliment – Article 8
Giving Gifts part 2 – Gift ideas – Article 7
As mentioned in the “how to” section of gifts, a great gift for one woman might be a disaster with a different one since for them, gifts are about knowing her and knowing what the gifts mean to her. However, I will list here some gifts that have been meaningful to my wife: Stuffed animals…Continue reading Giving Gifts part 2 – Gift ideas – Article 7
Giving Gifts Like a Man Should – Article 6
The Supreme happiness of life is the conviction of being loved for yourself, or, more correctly, being loved in spite of yourself.” Victor Hugo There are three main features to giving a gift to a woman. They can be summed up in this statement: every gift (including dates, by the way – anything…Continue reading Giving Gifts Like a Man Should – Article 6
The Vision of the Phalanx
The Phalanx John Keegan – The Book of War, 1999: “Without discipline, however, armies are ineffective instruments, needing leadership to order their numbers and concentrate their power. The concentration of power at the highest level achievable with hand-held weapons reached its apogee among the Greek city-states of the 5th Century BC, where the Phalanx, a…Continue reading The Vision of the Phalanx