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The Benefits of Adultery
September 19th, 201112:55 PM ETBy Joe Beam"God will bless us if we divorce our mates and marry each other. It's right there in the Bible." "Really?" I replied. "Please enlighten me." He was entangled with a woman at his church. Each was married to someone else, but now both professed undying love and devotion to the other. Each complained bitterly about their current marriages and praise... -
How to Rescue Fallen Church Leaders
September 02nd, 201112:13 PM ETBy Joe BeamSo if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall! (1 Corinthians 10:12) If we knew the actual numbers, we would not like them. Every year in nearly every denomination, men or women who are in some role of church leadership commit immorality that costs them their positions and puts their families in jeopardy. Some commit adult... -
Do Rich Marriages Have Problems Too?
July 11th, 201108:22 PM ETBy Joe Beam“Our problem,” he said, “is that everyone in my life listens to what I say and does what I tell them. Then I come home and it doesn’t work that way with my wife. I don’t like that.” She didn’t either. The comment was neither unexpected nor unusual. In workshops for marriages in crisis, leaders often note that those couples in which ... -
How To End An Affair
June 07th, 201101:55 PM ETBy Joe BeamYou are not quite sure how you got yourself into the affair, and even less sure about how to get out of it. You are in love with your paramour but hate the sneaking and cheating. You vacillate between ending the forbidden relationship and giving yourself totally to it. You feel intense emotions for your lover, but even as you tell yourself - or you... -
Stay Married or Divorce?
April 29th, 201110:27 AM ETBy Joe Beam"She's pregnant by her lover. But she says she has come to her senses, loves me, and wants to save our marriage. My family practically hates her and wants me to divorce her and have nothing else to do with her ever. I don't know what to do." Call him Jim. Call her May. Every year situations such as theirs are repeated more times that one might ima... -
Dealing With A Controlling Spouse
April 15th, 201103:03 PM ETBy Joe BeamShe could not look people in the eye as they greeted her. Head down, shoulders slumped; she headed to the nearest open seat and quietly slid into it. Her husband was a study in contrast. Confident, gregarious, he firmly shook hands and made polite small talk before striding over to sit beside his wife. Years before she had been a decorated officer... -
Who Cares What Your Kids Pray For?
March 18th, 201101:14 PM ETBy Joe BeamIt isn't unusual to overhear conversations like this. One lady told another that she should NOT stay in her marriage for the sake of her children. She offered the usual: make yourself happy; why should you be punished to stay with that guy just because he fathered your children; over time the kids will be better off. She added more but these genera... -
What is Intimacy?
March 08th, 201105:14 PM ETBy Joe BeamShe interrupted my talk to tell me that I should say the word differently to make its meaning clear. Instead of intimacy, I should say it into-me-see. She had a great point. The Dictionary defines intimacy as "a close, familiar, and usually affectionate or loving personal relationship with another person or group." In the social sciences we think... -
When Is A Marriage Over?
January 20th, 201102:56 PM ETBy Joe BeamLast night at church a gentleman I didn't know stopped me and without preamble said, "My wife divorced me but not for a Biblical cause. May I get married again?" Quite a question from a man that I know nothing about. Besides, I'm not in the divorce profession; I'm in the saving marriages profession. I replied, "Has your former wife remarried?" He ... -
Do You Have A Soul Mate?
January 03rd, 201111:11 PM ETBy Joe BeamThe news that SC governor Mark Sanford described his mistress Maria Belen Chapur as his soul mate had not yet grown cold when another "married man in the wrong situation" story hit the airwaves. Former Tennessee Titan's quarterback Steve McNair was murdered and his body found alongside that of the woman who expected him to divorce his wife and marr...
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