Treat Marriage with Honor
“Marriage involves incredible potential for happiness, but there is also an enormous risk of failure. When two people fall in love and decide to spend the rest of their lives together, they can create...
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“Boaz wanted Ruth. The writer allows no question about that. He wanted to call the rabbi, exchange vows, and take her to bed. If I were writing a steamy novel, I would describe in lurid detail his...
View ArticleA Quote to Ponder: The Most Vital Role
{Ephesians 5:22-27; NLT} For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the...
View ArticleLet’s Talk about Sex
“Sex is sacred, but not essential, and our lives say the opposite.” ~ Mark Moore One of my heroes is Mark Moore. I have never met him and I have only heard him speak in person a handful of times, but...
View ArticleBedtime Prayer for Married Couples 2.0
Our Father in Heaven, At the end of this day we pause to return our focus to You. Our days are filled with responsibilities, emergencies, and routine. Too often we are distracted from each other and...
View ArticleA Quote to Ponder: Good Communication Requires Character
{1 Corinthians 13:4-7; ESV} Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice...
View ArticleLinkage: I’m Sick of Hearing About Your Smoking Hot Wife
Baggage and brokenness often surround the area of sexuality. Even within the bounds of marriage, where commitment and love are present, we have to approach sex with patience, understanding, and love....
View ArticleLove Just Isn’t Enough
The Purpose of Marriage: Part 1 We live in a culture where it is very easy for a husband and wife to drift apart. The reason for this is because our society encourages us to pursue our dreams and...
View ArticleTo be the Leader
The Purpose of Marriage: Part 2 Read Part 1 here: Love Just Isn’t Enough. Christian marriage requires mutual submission. Consider what the apostle Paul wrote; “For the wife does not have authority...
View ArticleThe Foundation of Civilization
The Purpose of Marriage Part 4 Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 In my day job I am a paraprofessional at the local middle school. Yesterday in the Science class I help in we watched a video on the...
View ArticleThe Day Jesus Restored Marriage
Marriage, it seems, has been with us for a very long time. In fact, for us who believe the Bible, we read that marriage has been around since the first couple. This is one of the reason we believe that...
View ArticleAn Enormous Honor
{Genesis 2:18 and 24; NLT} Then the LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him.”…This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is...
View ArticleYour Wife Needs…
Your wife needs… Husbands remember this. The post Your Wife Needs… appeared first on Paul's Ponderings.
View ArticleA Quote to Ponder: The Most Vital Role
{Ephesians 5:22-27; NLT} For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For a husband is the head of his wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of his body, the...
View ArticleKeep Your Standards
When I was a sophomore in college I was the children and youth intern at a church in western Iowa. One Sunday I was invited to eat lunch with one the families and they asked me questions about my life...
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