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God's Perfect Marriage Counseling
Driving through Bakersfield on our way home from Thanksgiving, I read billboards to stay awake. They came one after another, then another. Suddenly, on a plain black field with simple white letters, one read: "Need marriage counseling? I'm available. -God."
I laughed out loud.
Loyd, asleep in the passenger seat, roused. "What's so funny?" He rubbed his eyes.
I told him about the billboard and he chuckled ...
Related Topics: Biblical Guidance, Marriage, Strengthened, Scripture
Together on Holy Ground
I don't know how I fell in love with my husband. It just happened. After 20 years of cautiously dating and agonizing and being afraid to fall for the wrong guy, I dove in headfirst and married David eight months after I met him. Maybe the timing was right. Maybe we were both tired of waiting. I believe it was just meant to be.
Six years later, I still believe it was meant to be. But that doesn't mean ...
Related Topics: Career, Dreams, Finances, Marriage, Strengthening, Money, Sacrifice
The Grace of Confession
Change is all about measuring yourself against a standard, being dissatisfied with where you are because you see that you have fallen short of the standard, and seeking the grace to close the gap from where you are to where you need to be. James likened the Word of God to a mirror (James 1:22-25) into which we can look and see ourselves as we actually are.
It is impossible to overstate how important ...
Related Topics: Change, Positive, confession, Grace, Growth
Activating God's Word in Your Marriage
What is my problem? Why can't I control my tongue? I'm such a failure! Thoughts like these ripped through my mind as I sat weeping in the Wal-Mart parking lot. This night alone with my husband had been nothing like what we had planned. Somehow we had found ourselves in an argument.
Somehow? My tongue had done it again. I had let one comment go, but by the time the follow-up came, I was armed and ready ...
Related Topics: Bible, Conflict resolution, Marriage, Lessons, Scripture
The God-Gratitude Project
Last July I read Psalm 92:1-2 in my morning quiet time: "It is good to give thanks to the LORD and to sing praises to Your name, O Most High; to declare Your lovingkindness in the morning and Your faithfulness by night" (NASB). I have read these verses many times before and always thought, What a perfect thing to do; give thanks to God every morning for his lovingkindness and every night for his faithfulness. ...
Related Topics: Gratitude, journaling, Prayer, Thankfulness, Thanksgiving
The Good Life
As a young wife, I often see pictures of others' elaborate weddings and exotic honeymoons, but I reminisce about a cement-walled hallway. I hear people talk about being blessed with great children, and I have none. I listen to stories of romantic evenings watching sunsets and mornings with breakfast in bed, while I dream of an extra kiss stolen in secret. I see couples who own big houses and expensive ...
Related Topics: Crime, faith, testing of;, God, Listening to, God's Will, Hearing God's voice, Marriage, Deciding on
The Best Gift to Give Your Spouse
My husband's eyes darted back and forth, apparently keeping time to his frantic flow of thoughts. I'd just asked for his input on a decision we needed to make, and I could tell he was flustered and stressed. He frowned, glancing down at his watch.
"Let's talk later," he said. He leaned over and kissed me on the forehead. Then, keys jingling in his hand, he called to our daughter and the two of them ...
Related Topics: Communication, Healing, Prayer, retreat, Silence
Like Sweet Ice Cream
Recently, a woman I'll call Jill wrote me after reading my book about being unequally yoked, When He Doesn't Believe (WaterBrook). She'd grown up in a Christian family, had always been involved at church, and had had a vibrant faith. But then she moved thousands of miles from home for college and, well …
It's a common story: Girl stops going to church, stops feeding her soul and spirit, and ...
Marriage Without Myths
"I took a long time to realize I'd developed some distorted perceptions about biblical submission," admits Brenda Waggoner, author of The Myth of the Submissive Christian Woman (Tyndale). Because the issue of submission is so emotionally charged and hotly debated, I interviewed Brenda, a licensed Christian counselor and prolific author, to address what the Bible says about submission in marriage. ...
Related Topics: Honor, Partnership, Respect, submission
Torn Between Two Lovers—Part 2
In part 1 of this series, I shared that Brian (not his real name) and I had been married 13 when I became a Christian. That set our marriage on a road to potential disaster, as I desperately wanted him to share the newfound joy and life that I had. But he wasn't interested; he wanted his old wife back!
It brought such sadness whenever I read the apostle Paul's words in 2 Corinthians 6:14-15: "Do not ...
Related Topics: faithfulness, God's, unequally yoked
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