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Love and Respect: A Royal Marriage

Marriage is a lot like royalty. A wife wants to be first in the heart of her prince. A husband wants to be the hero that his princess admires and respects.

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Serving Together as a Couple

When couples choose to unselfishly serve others together, they experience peace, contentment and a deeper bond that strengthens their marriage.

The Husband and Father’s Role

When a man enters into a covenant relationship with his bride, he commits to the responsibilities of loving, honoring and cherishing her.

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Timing Matters When Having Kids

Your timeline for having kids is important. It is worthy of careful prayer, but not hypercare.

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Kids Can Be Good for Marriage, Really

Yes, having children will change your marriage, but you can trust that God designed your marriage to grow and deepen through that change.

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Why Have Kids?

“Why have kids?” That’s a question couples are increasingly prone to ask.

Devotional: Facing Adversity

The reality of the presence of adversity in life is a given.

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Devotional: Love and Respect

To assume that our ability to love another person has its source in our own hearts carries with it the potential to be embarrassing, painful, or dangerous.

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Serving With the Right Attitude

Serving your spouse should be considered an opportunity and conducted with joy. Jesus was the perfect example of serving with the right attitude.

Devotional: Spiritual Foundations

Spiritual intimacy between a husband and wife provides a safe covering.

Devotional: Time and Money

As with everything in our lives, our ability to live in the fullness that God has for us has all to do with our focus.

When My Husband Joined My Devotions

Together, we have unearthed one of the most overlooked secrets for a strong marriage — going into God’s presence together to pray and read His Word.

Devotional: Unexpected Challenges

We so long to find or to create certainty in our lives. There is but one certainty in life, and that is the presence of our loving God.

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Ten Tips for Protecting Your Cross-Cultural Marriage From Outside Influences

External stressors are magnified in cross cultural marriages because of disappointments when cultural assumptions are unmet. Developing a shared identity is the key to growth.

Becoming One

Becoming one is something that takes effort and persistence.

Grief, Goodbyes and God

The author describes her personal story of triumph over the pain of a military deployment.

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The Many Benefits of Long-Term Marriage

According to Jacob Silverman there were 1,138 federal benefits, rights and responsibilities associated with marriage.

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Cross-Cultural Marriage Mentoring

Cross-cultural marriage mentoring offers an attractive framework for racial and marital harmony by dispelling false assumptions and demonstrating how to constructively work through differences.

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It’s About TIME: Building the CORE of Your Marriage

Busyness is the enemy of marriage. Restoring intimacy to marriage requires an intentional effort to spend time communicating openly and empathically with one another.

New Challenges, New Normal

Upon returning home from deployment, it’s typical for service members to feel out of sorts.

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To Step into Your Calling, You Must First See Clearly.

Truth Rising exposes the cultural crisis we face and the bold faith it takes to confront it. Watch the film, then go deeper with a study on Hope, Truth, Identity, and Calling. You were created for this moment.

Choose to see. Choose to believe. Choose to act.