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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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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.

Humility and Self-Forgetfulness

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.

New Challenges, New Normal

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

Created for Connection

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

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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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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.