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January 28, 2021

Tools for Safeguarding Your Marriage  Truths about marriage are well established in Scripture. Marriage is ordained by God, established for His purposes, and reflects Christ’s relationship to the church. What isn’t spelled out quite as clear is that marriage stands as a paradoxical encounter in life: both a terrific challenge and an immeasurable blessing.  Strong marriages don’t evolve from two perfectly matched soul-mates coming together in relationship. God builds strong marriages from two people with very different backgrounds, contrasting personalities,...

November 7, 2019

4 Steps to Avoiding the Marital Pit of Sexual Sin

Few among us have lived untouched by the fall-out of sexual sin in a marriage, either directly or indirectly. Many forms of sexual sin exist that haunt a family, including but not limited to: pornography, lust, emotional attachment, adultery. Whatever weapon Satan uses, the resulting inflamed wounds are the same:  betrayal and broken hearts. (If you are this one, feeling the sting of betrayal and picking up the pieces of your broken heart, you can skip to the last paragraph...

June 20, 2019

An Important Tool for Your Marriage

Traveling the highway of marriage is not a journey for those weak in spirit or resolve. Through the years, we experience many flat tires, engine blow-ups and “we are lost” detours. Working through problems solidifies our marriages. But requires work. Hard work. Laboring through a marital hard becomes more doable with the right tools, employing the implements of patience, gentleness, and openness with a steady power supply of prayer and scriptural guidance. Another important tool is called a “letgo”. At...

May 23, 2019

4 Reality Checks for the Hard of Marriage

This writing comes on the heels of celebrating 40 years of marriage, and seems a good time to talk about one of the somewhat surprising, yet very real, hards of life. Marriage. Volumes have been written about this God-ordained institution, but maybe in the simplest terms, we can agree: Marriage is hard. We are not far along in the journey of wedded bliss before the easy-as-pie, happy-ever-after notions slip to the ground and become trodden under the reality that this...