On Valentine’s Day I had the pleasure of watching a great movie with my amazing wife.(1)

Against the backdrop of Fifty Shades of Grey (a film and book series that glorifies sadistic fornication), a movie by skoche films / Pure Flix was intentionally released the very same weekend.

The name of the film is Old Fashioned, and I highly commend it to all viewers seeking an actual love story portrayed in the medium of film.

My only regret about the movie is that it was only released in select theatres rather than in every theatre in which 50 Shades was darkening the culture. Of course I know God is sovereign and that even the tiniest light can scatter a great deal of darkness (Jn. 1:5; Eph. 5:8-14).

My wife is a wonder to me.

An amazing, beautiful wonder.

While I regrettably don’t tell her how much I love and appreciate her nearly as much as I should (something I’m working on), I have to admit that as far as my experience is concerned – if there is a Proverbs 31 woman, it’s my wife.

It is not, nor will it ever be (this side of glory), a question of whether a man will fail. It is, and always will be (this side of glory), a question of what it is in which he fails, how often he fails, to what degree he fails, and what he then does after he fails.

For just as King Solomon said, "Surely there is not a righteous man on earth who does good and never sins" (Eccles. 7:20), so too under the inspiration of the same Holy Spirit the Apostle Paul agreed in saying, "'None is righteous, no, not one'...for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Rom. 3:10, 23).

Every man sins, and every man fails.(1)