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Marriage Success

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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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Serving Together Through Your Local Church

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.

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Serving Together in Your Community

Hurting people need Christians in their community to reach out and demonstrate the love of Christ.

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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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Why Have Kids?

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

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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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Your Time Apart: Making it Through and Back

The goodbye is over — good for you! You’ve made it through what was most likely the toughest moment of your time apart. The next thing you have to look forward to? The reunion! Here are some tips for making it from the moment after goodbye through the readjustment period with your health, sanity and …

Thirty-Three Months at War

‘I’m not ashamed of my experiences because I know … I’ll be able to use what I’ve been through to help and bless another. …’

God’s Promises to Service Members and Spouses

God’s promises are solid and surprisingly applicable to military life.

Defending Your Marriage From External Stressors

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

Does Your Spouse See Jesus in You?

If you really want your spouse to see Jesus in you, you have to genuinely put into practice an attitude of becoming more like Christ in everything you do.

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Fanning the Flame From Afar

Eight practical tips for keeping close to your spouse despite the fact you are miles apart

Preparing for Your Time Apart

You might not feel like planning, but a little inconvenience now can save a lot of heartache later.

A couple sits in a green field with trees in the background, with the husband's arms wrapped around the wife. They are smiling, as they have been enriching their marriage with devotionals for married couples.

Devotional: External Relationships

When we choose to live our married life according to the design God has for us, it can be amazing.

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Faith, Family, Friends, Finances and Food

Inter-ethnic couples face key decisions early in the marriage that establish their foundation. By intentionally attending to these decisions, they leverage their differences as strengths.

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Maximize Your Fun-Factor

In the business of life, couples in blended families often stop connecting through shared leisure time. They simply spend their time on other things. But, wise remarried couples recognize the importance of leisure, and they maximize their fun-factor.

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Approaching Remarriage

Remarriage should be considered carefully and only after a couple has sought premarital counseling.