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Strengthening Your Marriage

Marriage With Eternity in Mind

Francis Chan discusses how having a marriage focused on a mission will require commitment and sacrifice, asking couples if their view of the future is big enough.

What Not to Give Up For Lent: Reading as a Couple

Popular Bible teacher Margaret Feinberg invites couples to share in a 40-day journey to Easter by participating in Bible study during Lent.

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Reflecting Our Relationship With God

We need to live our lives knowing that we have been created for intimate union with God.

Marriage’s Meaning for Believers

God desires that we develop and nurture a personal, interactive relationship with Him.

A husband stands behind his wife with his arms around her, both smiling, with fall leaves in the background, conveying the importance of making your spouse feel cherished.

Cherish: Recognize Your Spouse’s Value

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 …

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Laugh and Play Together

A marriage that can ascend to the heights of intimacy requires careful navigation and routine maintenance.

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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.

Our God of Second Chances

Jesus must be the focal point in marriage, not your spouse. Much of the time, without being aware of it, we end up idolizing our spouse, and making them our God, instead of allowing God to be our God.

Romance and Intimacy

A couple’s level of oneness is usually evident in their level of companionship, commitment and passion for each other.

Guarding Your Heart in Marriage

Are you guarding your marriage? Better yet, are you guarding your heart in your marriage?

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Change Your Mind, Change Your Marriage

Thoughts and attitudes are like the engine of a train and our emotions and behavior are like the caboose.

Teen-Fueled Tension in Marriage

Parenting teens provides a new set of conflicts for couples: debates over discipline, respect, privileges, responsibilities, media choices and dating boundaries.

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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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Defending Your Marriage Against Mediocrity

When couples compromise on obedience to God, their marriages drift towards mediocrity. Abundant marriage, however, is within reach when attending to five key areas.

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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.

Defending Your Marriage From External Stressors

God has made provisions for you to withstand negative influences on your marriage.

Created for Connection

Human beings have an innate desire to connect, to experience dynamic relationships with one another.

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What Will You Gain From Building a Marital Hedge?

Building and protecting a strong relationship may sound a bit like getting a root canal. But is it really?

The Role of Friendship in Marriage

Marriage without friendship cannot work in our culture.

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Staying Married for Life

Being ‘there’ for your spouse is what being married is really about. It takes time to get to know another person. If you’re not available, it can’t happen.