Marriage requires sacrifice. Sometimes the sacrifices are small. Other times they’re life-altering. No matter the size, the sacrifice means nothing without love.
Strengthening Your Marriage
Let Erin Smalley’s 10 tips on fighting for your marriage help you strengthen and deepen your relationship.
Only you know the best relational investments for your marriages. Thriving couples proactively invest in each other and in their marriages.
Choosing to invest in your marriage helps to strengthen the lifelong commitment that is foundational to your relationship.
By developing a healthy pattern of coping with stress and change, you’ll be more likely to deal with issues as a married couple.
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.
Popular Bible teacher Margaret Feinberg invites couples to share in a 40-day journey to Easter by participating in Bible study during Lent.
We need to live our lives knowing that we have been created for intimate union with God.
God desires that we develop and nurture a personal, interactive relationship with Him.
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 …
A marriage that can ascend to the heights of intimacy requires careful navigation and routine maintenance.
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.
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.
Are you guarding your marriage? Better yet, are you guarding your heart in your marriage?
A couple’s level of oneness is usually evident in their level of companionship, commitment and passion for each other.
Thoughts and attitudes are like the engine of a train and our emotions and behavior are like the caboose.
Parenting teens provides a new set of conflicts for couples: debates over discipline, respect, privileges, responsibilities, media choices and dating boundaries.
According to Jacob Silverman there were 1,138 federal benefits, rights and responsibilities associated with marriage.
When couples compromise on obedience to God, their marriages drift towards mediocrity. Abundant marriage, however, is within reach when attending to five key areas.
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.
