Estimated reading time: 11 minutes Did you know that shifting your perspective on marriage can restore it? An excellent example comes from Tara, a young lady at the church I was working for at the time. She approached me one day after church and asked to speak with me. “You’ve got to help me. I …
Marriage
Heart connection is when two people delight in living their individual lives in a way that breeds trust and consistently adds value to their identity as a pair.
Many marriages are blessed with a spouse who is a live-life-to-its-fullest spender, while the other spouse saves each penny. But too often, husbands and wives end up feeling like they’re on opposing teams.
A love worth dying for.
A woman’s role as her husband’s “helper” is not an insignificant assignment. To serve well in her role, a woman must be fierce. Not destructively fierce but beautifully fierce.
Grief is a real part of infertility. It may be heightened in miscarriages or stillbirths, but it is just as real when a couple cannot conceive.
When conflict arises in a thriving marriage, both partners win when they remember that, ultimately, they’re on the same team.
If your approach to conflict resolution is going nowhere, you may need a heart change. Try these five ideas.
The way to stay excited about being together is to sprinkle in a judicious pinch of spice now and then. It’s all about “getting outside the box” every once in a while.
Our childhood experiences and relationships with our parents affect the way we relate to our spouses. There are five unhealthy love styles we develop as a result of our trauma as kids. Here’s how to identify each.
Laughter helps us avoid taking ourselves too seriously and is a great stress reducer. If your marriage is anything like Mark and Debbie Gungor’s, it has its fair share of stress.
Denying our own interests doesn’t come naturally, but it conditions us toward a more sacrificial love. Dying to self proves we’re serious about loving our spouse in the same way Christ loves His church.
Changing your financial situation starts with deliberate choices to defeat the destructive attitudes that are keeping you in debt. The way you do that is by consciously replacing destructive thoughts with truthful and beneficial ones.
Have you heard about the other way of writing the word “intimacy”?—”INTO ME, SEE.” There’s a valuable piece of marital wisdom embedded in this clever play on words.
How can a couple keep the fires of sexual passion alive in the middle of the humdrum, day-to-day routine of the average marriage? Believe it or not, this is a fairly common question. If it’s come up recently between you and your spouse, take heart. You’re not alone.
What is a marriage? It’s a question well worth pondering.
The parallel between romantic love and God’s relationship with His people is a theme that runs all the way through Scripture, and it has a great deal to teach us about the spiritual dimension of marriage.
Learn how to strengthen your marriage and love your husband by building a good relationship with your mother-in-law.
Sex is a gift God gave to husbands and wives, so why not learn how to enjoy it to the fullest?
Bo Stern writes of her husband’s struggle with ALS, testifying to God’s strength being made perfect in their weakness.
