Honor isn’t based on behavior or subject to emotion. You grant your spouse value whether they want it or deserve it. Honor is a decision you make and a gift you give. This is exactly what the apostle Paul encouraged the early Christians to do when he wrote, “Be devoted to one another in brotherly …
Marriage Success
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.
When couples choose to unselfishly serve others together, they experience peace, contentment and a deeper bond that strengthens their marriage.
Through small acts of service, we grow closer as a couple, get to know our church family better and enjoy being used by God to touch others’ lives.
Hurting people need Christians in their community to reach out and demonstrate the love of Christ.
When a man enters into a covenant relationship with his bride, he commits to the responsibilities of loving, honoring and cherishing her.
In order to save, heal and protect our marriages from porn, we need to adopt a broader understanding of this pernicious and slippery world, an understanding that currently and unfairly pins most virtual infidelity on husbands.
It’s when work life and family life are at their peak — and at times at each other’s throats. Many men turn to porn during these exhaustive years as an illicit pick-me-up.
Yes, having children will change your marriage, but you can trust that God designed your marriage to grow and deepen through that change.
Your timeline for having kids is important. It is worthy of careful prayer, but not hypercare.
“Why have kids?” That’s a question couples are increasingly prone to ask.
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.
Becoming one is something that takes effort and persistence.
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.
According to Jacob Silverman there were 1,138 federal benefits, rights and responsibilities associated with marriage.
The author describes her personal story of triumph over the pain of a military deployment.
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.
Busyness is the enemy of marriage. Restoring intimacy to marriage requires an intentional effort to spend time communicating openly and empathically with one another.
Upon returning home from deployment, it’s typical for service members to feel out of sorts.
While humility is not often praised in society today, it is a characteristic that Christ displayed at every turn. Marriage offers the perfect testing grounds for humility.