Marriage

If your spouse is struggling with substance abuse today, know they are not alone. It has become more common within the past few years for people to struggle with addiction. All of your pain and heartache over your spouse is valid, but do not lose hope. 

Most articles speaking about adultery state poor communication, unhappiness, and lack of intimacy in a marriage as the reasons for infidelity. This may be true for some but when I was searching for resources on the Internet for my adulterous marriage, I never felt writers understood what I was really experiencing.

We sought marriage counseling, only to be told our communication was mainly fine and we seemed very happy – when we did actually spend time together. The unhappi

...impatience compels us to cut off folks who fail to respond fast enough to our liking, which limits the number of people we can serve.

Friends, the deceiver is still deceiving! But God is still God, and His very nature exudes love, grace, and mercy. So, when one of those students asked if God forgives sex before marriage, my initial response was a wholehearted, "Yes, of course, He does!" However, I know that there are many layers to this question, and it comes with a heart that may be seeking permission to fall into lust (if there will be forgiveness) or repentance due to guilt that is weighing heavy.

You may be thinking, wait, aren’t we supposed to make our spouses happy in marriage? Yes, and no. First off, you can’t “make someone happy.” There are days when you wake up and are having a bad day, and nothing is going to change that. A circumstance in life may drastically change something for the worse, and sometimes you can’t change that perspective. Still, although we aren’t supposed to make each other miserable, focusing only on our spouses’ happiness won’t lead to a happy union either. 

Let’s remember to be patient with our spouses if they don’t jump up and down in excitement right away. If it is God’s plan, He will enlighten them in His timing.

Here are 4 assumptions about your wife you need to stop making immediately.

We need to learn to appreciate our spouse better. With marriage comes the responsibility to maintain a home and family together. Sometimes, the ways we contribute to this calling can look vastly different.

In my years of counseling and ministering to married couples, mostly in distress, I have learned some principles that run fairly consistent within each marriage. Couples really are not that different from each other.

There is such a thing as being too agreeable, and if you’re like me, you’re looking for better ways to promote peace without compromise.

Women are very multi-faceted and complex. This doesn't mean you have to figure out the meaning of everything we say. Society conditions us to keep what hurts us inside, but you have the power to break down those walls. You should be wondering why you feel you can't trust our answer and why we are trying to hide our emotions.

We can learn so much from Paul’s approach to resolving this tension in this new church and apply the lessons from this passage to help us better navigate marital conflicts. Here are 4 takeaways from the passage to help mend conflicts in your marriage.

While goals and resolutions are important and do have value, we must learn to prioritize and simplify things that transcend this earth.

Here are 4 things temptation is and 4 things temptation is not.

Prayer helps us look away from our own mistakes and trust God, who created marriage in the first place. Through prayer, we find the power to stay close when life tries to pull us apart.

There is a massive catalog of ways in which God has shown up and confirmed that He has everything under control. These three lessons are perhaps the biggest things I’ve learned along the way.

Our society has a lot to say about gender roles, and often it feels at odds with what the Bible says. But is it manly for Christians to drink beer, watch sports, and act domineering? Together, we'll look at five incredible ways the Bible defines manhood.

If our hearts are right with the Lord, we see that being a helpmate is not the issue; both the man’s and the woman’s perspective has been problematic. Sin has crept into the relationship and into the ways we view God’s perfect design for relationships.

We see that God’s perfect design for humanity is man and woman, living together as one flesh in two separate bodies, tending and caring for God’s garden, all in obedience to and relationship with the Lord. It’s a commentary on marriage, on relationship, and on the holy work we are all tasked to do.

A touch, combined with a loving gaze and kind words, adds a powerful impact. There is something very basic and powerful about a loving touch.