Marriage

What begins as innocent banter can quietly erode trust and wreck a covenant. This guide offers five Scriptural ways to keep your marriage safe and sacred.

For those of us who are believers in God, we utilize a biblical mindset to best handle the ebbs and flows of marital bliss. Wisdom, as expressed regularly through the Scriptures, must be adopted into one’s life and also one’s marriage.

The newborn stage changes everything—but your marriage doesn’t have to suffer. Here’s how to stay close when time, sleep, and energy are hard to find.

When distance creeps into a marriage, the enemy doesn’t rest. Learn how God’s design for intimacy protects and strengthens what He’s joined together.

If happiness is your primary expectation of marriage, you will most likely find yourself disillusioned and disappointed. Let's talk about God's view of marriage.

The Lord should be the priority in all Christian marriages. Marriage becomes holy matrimony when people focus on honoring God and serving the other person at the same time. A holy marriage can last a lifetime with God's grace and intentional action.

Break free from the grip of porn with practical steps that bring healing, hope, and lasting freedom through confession, prayer, and Christ-centered living.

In the midst of a marriage crisis, there is a very real temptation to focus on what is wrong, to be feel hopeless. But these 5 prayers will help you to refocus on the God who is able to bring hope and healing.

You love God, are committed to living for him, and have a strong marriage. You and your husband have good jobs and a home waiting to be filled. There is only one thing missing – children. You and your husband want children and have been praying that God bless you with a family. Time passes, and you watch as, one by one, women all around you excitedly announce they are expecting. You attend baby shower after baby shower and work hard to rejoice with those sweet friends who are rejoicing and celebrating their precious gift of a new family member.

Every healthy relationship requires a set of do's and don'ts, and marriage is no exception. Can two walk together unless they are in agreement? (Amos 3:3). Couples must stipulate the limits of the conduct they expect from each other. Boundaries express each partner's core values and encapsulate what they need to feel loved, secure, and respected. Boundaries are not meant to be restrictive.

If you are feeling distant from your spouse, this guide shows how to rebuild intimacy, one prayerful choice at a time.

A husband sees his wife for better and for worse, in sickness and in health. United with her, his commitment to lifting her heavenward daily has the potential to encourage and empower her in her life like no one else can.

I’m not a doctor or a counselor or an expert on grief or anything; I’m just a guy like you who tries not to cry when he thinks of his wife. I’d like to encourage you to remember these three things during the hard days ahead. First, you never have to stop grieving the loss of your wife. Second, God has not left you here by accident. Third, and perhaps best, joy and sorrow can coexist.

Your husband’s unhappiness may have nothing to do with you. But that doesn’t mean there’s nothing you can do to support him.

God did not create marriage as an institution designed to trap you in an unhealthy and unsafe relationship. While we know divorce is always something we grieve, there are times when divorce is the step God is calling you to. Trust him to help you break free from a toxic situation.

One of the most important tasks to accomplish before a ceremony is to select Scriptures. Bible verses for weddings set the tone for a couple as they begin their lives as one.

Blind optimism says our spouse is our perfect soulmate who can do no wrong--but this only sets us up for painful disappointment. Hope and help are found in confronting the hard facts of marriage together.

"Marriage is work"! Does that statement strike a chord with you? Do you feel as if you breezed through dating and courtship only to hit a bump in the road in marriage? If you do, you are not alone. Many couples opine that there's a stark difference between marriage and dating. In marriage, they realize that they need to exert mental and physical effort to keep the wheels of their marriage turning. What came so easily and naturally during dating seems to have morphed into work. Hard work. What exactly changed? Did God design marriage as hard work?

If we don’t even consider keeping the flame alive in our marriages, the summer events will take over and time will slip away from us. This could potentially cause a rift or slow divide in our sacred unions. Friends, we mustn’t let that happen. That said, let’s discover some fun summer date ideas that will really spice things up and rekindle the flame if need be.

When kids observe their parents' divorce, it affects their view of marriage. Now, the younger generations are witnessing grandma and grandpa getting divorced. This cultural change communicates to them that “marriage doesn’t work or last,” resulting in a high rate of cohabitation rather than marriage for the current generation.