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1. Make Your Marriage a Priority—Not Just on Valentine's Day

... to those who believe they need to make up for an earlier failure. In her teens, my wife, Stephanie, worked at a department store during the holidays. Christmas Eve was one of her favorite days. Desper ...

Created on 14 February 2019

2. Need to Get on the Same Page as Your Spouse? Here's How

... y, time and money would be wasted. Employees, customers and investors would be confused. The business would soon fail. It's the same when husband and wife are not aligned. Some couples who are not "on the ...

Created on 14 February 2019

3. 4 Healing Songs for When You've Been Betrayed

Well, here you are. A place where you never thought you would be. Maybe it was unexpected, or maybe you were suspicious for quite some time. Regardless, you wish that in this moment, you could be anywhere ...

Created on 08 February 2019

4. Identifying Your Marriage's God-Ordained Mission

... boat? So many marriages disintegrate into a miserable detente, or worse. That doesn't have to happen to you. I heard one husband describe how he invited his wife into a restorative marriage. He painted a  ...

Created on 31 January 2019

5. Read Pat Boone's Touching Spiritual Tribute to His Wife ...

... h He didn't approve them) and could tell other mere mortals what really counted in a woman and what to search for, perhaps in vain, in a prospective wife. I married that woman. And the old king was ri ...

Created on 23 January 2019

6. 3 Ways You Can Tear Your House Down Without Realizing It

I married later in life. Fact is, I wasn't sure if I'd ever get married. The one thing I always wanted to be was a wife and mommy. When all my schoolyard buddies wanted to be firemen, nurses, police office ...

Created on 22 January 2019

7. The One Deep Need Every Husband Has

This one is for wives only. (I know; you may read this even if you're not a wife.) But here's a secret many husbands wish their wives knew: He needs you to need him. But this is not for every wife. So ...

Created on 15 January 2019

8. 4 Life-Changing Ways God Wants You to Invest in Your Marriage

About four months into dating, my husband and I began to embark on the topic of marriage. One of the things we talked about on those dates was the importance of the husband and wife relationship after ...

Created on 08 January 2019

9. What to Do if You Think You Married the Wrong Person

... zed helping of God's grace. Each marriage that works is the union of two sinners transformed through the Holy Spirit's work. Here's what Paul says about an unhappy marriage: If any brother has an unbel ...

Created on 07 November 2018

10. Putting Your Marriage in Its Place

When you get married, most people appropriately assume they will be No. 1 to their spouse. There's nothing like the heady days of being in love. Those days make you feel nothing could ever be more important ...

Created on 30 October 2018

11. The Guaranteed Steps You Need to Change Your Spouse

Oh, if it were only that easy! I hear every day from a husband or wife who says, "I can't get my spouse to do ... And if they would change, everything would be great!" You cannot get married expecting  ...

Created on 22 October 2018

12. 10 Ways to Let Your Wife Know She Still Captures Your Heart ...

What can you start doing that communicates, "I love my wife"? Author Stasi Eldredge writes about a woman's deepest need: Little girls want to know, Am I lovely? The twirling skirts, the dress up, the longi ...

Created on 18 October 2018

13. Beth Moore: I'm Going to Get Flak for This, but It Needs to Be Said

Bible teacher Beth Moore took her followers to church Thursday morning with a series of tweets that challenged readers to evaluate their relationships. Run for your life from this thread this morning. ...

Created on 18 October 2018

14. Has Satan's Tricky Lie Infiltrated Your Marriage?

Almost everywhere you turn, couples are encouraged to introduce pornography to their relationship as a way to spice things up in the bedroom. Surveys will illustrate that in doing so, couples are significantly ...

Created on 16 October 2018

15. 3 Key Questions to Ask When You Feel Like Giving Up on Your Marriage

... n Paul says, "Wives, be submissive to your own husbands as unto the Lord" (Eph. 5:22). Rather than using this as a club to demand "submission" from his wife, a husband should ask, "Am I a husband worth ...

Created on 30 September 2018

16. Widow Encounters 'Miracle From God' Just Weeks After Husband's Publicized Suicide

As Kayla Stoecklein prepared for her husband's memorial service, she shared a personal story on the church's blog about the "miracle from God" she encountered just weeks after her husband committed suicide. ...

Created on 06 September 2018

17. Wife of Pastor Who Committed Suicide: This Isn't the Life I Prayed For ...

Twenty-nine years old and a widowed mother of three boys. In the weeks since her husband, Inland Hills Pastor Andrew Stoecklein, committed suicide, Kayla Stoecklein has opened up about her grief on social ...

Created on 04 September 2018

18. Healing Help for When You Feel Rejected by Your Husband

You're a woman feeling rejected. Part of you believes it shouldn't bother you so much, but it does. You thought things would be different being married. Every now and then it's really good. In those moments ...

Created on 21 August 2018

19. 20 Things You Should Know About Your Spouse

No human being has the potential to make a greater impact on the quality of your life than your husband or wife. Years ago, I heard the advice, "Study your spouse." That certainly applies before you sa ...

Created on 27 July 2018

20. Helping Your Spouse Move Past Their Past

Every human being comes into marriage with baggage. You cannot make it through a couple decades or more of life without experiencing some kind of trauma. Some of those wounds are deeper than others. What ...

Created on 18 July 2018