Comments on: “You can tell the depth of a man’s walk with God by looking at the countenance of his wife’s face,” Bill McCartney, Founder of Promise Keepers https://anitamathias.com/2012/01/03/you-can-tell-the-depth-of-a-mans-walk-with-god-by-looking-at-the-countenance-of-his-wifes-face-bill-mccartney-founder-of-promise-keepers/ Anita Mathias's Blog on Faith and Art Sat, 23 Jan 2016 11:28:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 By: Anita Mathias https://anitamathias.com/2012/01/03/you-can-tell-the-depth-of-a-mans-walk-with-god-by-looking-at-the-countenance-of-his-wifes-face-bill-mccartney-founder-of-promise-keepers/#comment-54435 Mon, 10 Feb 2014 12:40:54 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/01/03/you-can-tell-the-depth-of-a-mans-walk-with-god-by-looking-at-the-countenance-of-his-wifes-face-bill-mccartney-founder-of-promise-keepers/#comment-54435 In reply to Tom Perkins.

Thanks for your very honest comment, Tom!

]]> By: Tom Perkins https://anitamathias.com/2012/01/03/you-can-tell-the-depth-of-a-mans-walk-with-god-by-looking-at-the-countenance-of-his-wifes-face-bill-mccartney-founder-of-promise-keepers/#comment-54393 Sun, 09 Feb 2014 16:08:02 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/01/03/you-can-tell-the-depth-of-a-mans-walk-with-god-by-looking-at-the-countenance-of-his-wifes-face-bill-mccartney-founder-of-promise-keepers/#comment-54393 I stumbled across this article today. True, true, wisdom. As a chaplain and missionary, I was very sanctimonious about divorce…until I got married. After 31 years (this week!) we still have plenty of junk in our trunk and, yes, we threw the “D” word around way more than once. Frankly, I should be on the divorce heap myself and I won’t pretend that personal effort or an extra shot of grace from God pulled us through. Guess we’ll get the answers when we cross over. My heart breaks over divorce and it surely seems that a combination of “A types” and the crosshairs of the enemy set many a church leader up for failure. I tell our recently married sons that better, much better men than me have crashed and burned on an affair and not to ever think for once that they are beyond that. God certainly does provide wisdom, warning, and application on how to steer clear of the wreckage. I think that only one of two times in my life “pride” paid off. Making a promise in front of God and 200 people forced me to gut it out (and my poor wife!!) when things got very, very ugly.

]]> By: Anita https://anitamathias.com/2012/01/03/you-can-tell-the-depth-of-a-mans-walk-with-god-by-looking-at-the-countenance-of-his-wifes-face-bill-mccartney-founder-of-promise-keepers/#comment-17043 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:19:37 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/01/03/you-can-tell-the-depth-of-a-mans-walk-with-god-by-looking-at-the-countenance-of-his-wifes-face-bill-mccartney-founder-of-promise-keepers/#comment-17043 Thanks, Rhoda. Yes, it certainly takes time. I used to be very reactive, and even now can be shaken by grumpiness or an unkind sentence, and have to remind myself that I live at a different address, in Christ.

@Jo, indeed. And if you want more ideas about home business, do email anitamathias1ATgmail.com. I am sure you're missing the sunny Philippines at the moment!

]]> By: Jo https://anitamathias.com/2012/01/03/you-can-tell-the-depth-of-a-mans-walk-with-god-by-looking-at-the-countenance-of-his-wifes-face-bill-mccartney-founder-of-promise-keepers/#comment-17042 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 14:11:12 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/01/03/you-can-tell-the-depth-of-a-mans-walk-with-god-by-looking-at-the-countenance-of-his-wifes-face-bill-mccartney-founder-of-promise-keepers/#comment-17042 Excellent! Let be proactive rather than re active in our character development!
Jo

]]> By: Rhoda https://anitamathias.com/2012/01/03/you-can-tell-the-depth-of-a-mans-walk-with-god-by-looking-at-the-countenance-of-his-wifes-face-bill-mccartney-founder-of-promise-keepers/#comment-17041 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 11:24:01 +0000 http://anitamathias.com/blog/2012/01/03/you-can-tell-the-depth-of-a-mans-walk-with-god-by-looking-at-the-countenance-of-his-wifes-face-bill-mccartney-founder-of-promise-keepers/#comment-17041 I love this post, and I agree with your conclusions. That saying may be true to a certain extent, but as Christians our joy and peace should ultimately not depend on our husbands but on our relationship with God. It takes some time and maturing as a Christian wife to get to that point though! I remember Ruth Bell Graham being quoted as saying something like she considered herself married to God, or God being her best friend so I am sure that really helped her when her husband was travelling.

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