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Fear the Lord for the Sake of Your Marriage

One evening, I was speaking with a friend from church. She said something that stuck with me. She said that the fear of the Lord played an important role in the health of a marriage. The following morning during my devotions my reading plan had me read Proverbs 31. I have read this chapter many times in the past, but what stuck out to me the most this time was verse 30 “charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.” Above all the virtues listed in Proverbs 31 (and there...

Amanda denBok

How then shall we date?

Jean-Sébastien Morin

As I was returning from a trip for our 15th wedding anniversary, something caught my eye: Joshua Harris, author of I Kissed Dating Goodbye and his wife Shannon were separating. Christians and atheists alike were sharing the story online. A couple separating is always sad. But in this case, it struck me like a ton of bricks. Having written a French-Canadian book on dating, one of the nicknames people gave me over the years was Quebec’s Joshua Harris. There is a special pressure when you are the “couples guy”. Gary Smalley recounts a time when a man overheard an argument between him and...

5 Mistakes That Will Ruin a Healthy Marriage

Paul Carter

Healthy things grow. Generally speaking; all things being equal; a marriage is rather like a garden: you don’t need to supply the miracle, you just need to stay on top of the weeds. Mistakes happen. Habits form. But in a healthy marriage all such invaders are immediately recognized and removed. As you monitor the health of your marital garden, these 5 weeds should be at the very top of your search and destroy list. These mistakes – if unaddressed – have the capacity to completely destroy an otherwise healthy marriage. Refusing to forgive  Jesus commanded his disciples to forgive. He...

Ten Lessons from a Decade of Marriage

Dan Stegeman

This past summer, my wife and I celebrated our 10-year anniversary. It has been an amazing journey and I am grateful to God for my wife. Here are some of the lessons I have learned along the way. See your spouse as a gift of God Scripture affirms the goodness and beauty of marriage (Genesis 2:18-25; Proverbs 5:18-19; Ephesians 5:22-33; Hebrews 13:4). Whether you realize this or not, your life is supremely enriched because of God’s good gift of your marriage partner. Don’t take this for granted. Tell them often how much you appreciate them and what a blessing they...

On Being a Husband: 4 Things I Have Learned in 10 Years of Marriage

Adam Brown

On the sixth day, God created humanity in His image and, at the same time, He instituted marriage as the sacred union by which a man and a woman become one flesh (Genesis 1:26–28; 2:21–25). In keeping with this most ancient blessing, when I finally said, “I do,” my life was radically and forever transformed for the better. After ten years of marriage, here are four things I have learned. Marriage is hard Our culture has discipled me to consume my wife. Even now I can hear the culture whispering in my ear, Your marriage is good only so long...

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