Posted on May 30, 2009 by Robert Lee "Trey" Edwards, Jr.
“Pop the question.” Sounds simple doesn’t it? The culture tells us that the decision to marry someone should be the most difficult, most mind-wrecking decision we’ll ever face. It’s all based around the belief that there is “THE One” out there that we will marry, the one guy/girl that God has chosen and raised specifically to be married to us. We’re paranoid that we’ll choose someone else than the One that God has chosen for us and that if we don’t choose Him we’ll be miserable for the rest of our lives. It’s not that complicated! There isn’t “The Guy” or “The Girl” out there that we must get married to or risk straying off of God’s plan for our lives.
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Posted on May 11, 2009 by Robert Lee "Trey" Edwards, Jr.
As I enter my late teens, a question that has been on the forefront of my mind is how young one must be to start courting/dating. Obviously, it cannot be much (if any) earlier than the age at which one should consider marriage, since that, ultimately, is the purpose of a courting/dating relationship – marriage. [...]
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Posted on May 4, 2009 by Robert Lee "Trey" Edwards, Jr.
After reviewing my first post in my Teenage Marriage series, I have decided to start over on the whole endeavor. I never actually answered the question asked in my previous post, the formatting was seriously flawed, and, while it worked well as a stand-alone post, it could not suffice as an introductory post into a [...]
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