Month: November 2015

DOES religious advertising really offend people? Not if Christian Connection’s campaign on the London Underground is anything to go by.

The leading Christian dating site splashed a series of challenging adverts on the Tube – with slogans like ‘Christians Make Better Lovers’ and ‘Another Dating Site – thank God’.

“We thought there may be a storm of complaints to the ASA”, said Christian Connection founder Jackie Elton. “There were 14 in all. None were upheld. Four million people use the …

‘As a single person, I dread Christmas,’ wrote an on-line pal. ‘My family live too far away to visit, and my friends disappear to spend time with their own families. For me, Christmas and new year are the loneliest times of the year…’

For many of us, struggling with loneliness is the toughest part of being single: evenings alone on the sofa, Sunday lunch for one, no one with whom to share holidays and sometimes the festive season, too. But …

A significant number of Christians remain single against their wishes because they have not met a suitable Christian partner. For them the command that Christians should only marry Christians can be one of the hardest in the Bible. Others marry non-Christians and can face criticism from fellow-believers because of this.

Paul says that believers should not be ‘unequally yoked with unbelievers’ (2Cor.6.14). In the context, this could perhaps refer to a business relationship, though that is unlikely because of the …

Many Christians desire to find a life partner who shares their Christian faith. For some, this is rooted in Biblical teaching. For others it is the desire to share life with a partner who is rooted in the same beliefs, values and traditions. But many Christians will find themselves in marriages where faith may not be shared by their spouses.

Is it possible to maintain one’s faith in the face of opposition from one’s spouse? How will it affect any …

I recently came across a thought provoking paragraph on marriage in Tim Keller’s new book, Preaching. Here’s what the New York pastor had to say on how many in our culture view marriage:

‘A late-modern person…wants a spouse who “accepts me as I am” and neither demands that you change nor requires you to sacrifice any of your own substantial desires, interests, and dreams. This kind of marriage is a fiction – it doesn’t exist.”

Keller argues that marriage does …