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

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

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, 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

            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…Continue reading Gift Ideas (Gifts part 2)

Compliments “Nothing makes a woman more beautiful than the belief that she is beautiful.”                 Sophia Loren – Women and Beauty   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…Continue reading Phalanx #2 – how to give a woman compliments

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 Phalanx post episode 1: Women are Different

Brother to Brother, The Phalanx 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 densely ranked mass of spearmen,…Continue reading The Phalanx