Eight Scriptures to Enhance Your Sex Life
Sex was God’s idea! And Oh how far humankind has fallen from His lofty ideal. But if you think the…
Marriage and Relationships
36 Ways To Tell Your Spouse “I Love You”
Whether you’ve been married 25 days or 50 years, your spouse needs to hear you say “I love you!” It’s…
Uprooting Why You Feel Unhappy in Your Marriage
Every marriage has challenges. It wouldn’t make sense to expect the union of two different human beings to proceed without…
Finding God’s Purpose for Your Marriage
Swimmingly smooth or terribly turbulent, newlyweds or lifelong lovers, there is a purpose behind your marriage. You may have slid…
How to Take Your Marriage from Just OK to Great
Your marriage has had its ups and downs, but it’s not toxic. You might give your marriage a C+, maybe…
10 Resolutions that will Revolutionize Your Relationship in 2021
The only helpful thing about New Year’s resolutions is that they get you to focus on what you can do.…
Three Powerful Keys to a Better Marriage in 2021
Last year was so – 2020. A year many people want never to repeat. Most are hoping and praying for…
Ten Christmas Gifts Your Spouse Will Love
Christmas is a time for giving. If you have a clear idea of what your spouse would love, and it’s…
How Detachment from your Spouse Makes Your Marriage Better
As with everything good that God created, the enemy has marred and distorted God’s statement, “they shall become one flesh.”…
How to Strengthen Your Marriage Through the Holidays
The holiday season is always stressful. In spite of the joy, for many people the holiday blues are very real.…
How to be Grateful For Your Messy Marriage
This week we celebrate Thanksgiving Day in the United States. The challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, racial and political…
How to Fight the Sense of Powerlessness in Your Marriage
There’s little that impacts your wellbeing more than the quality of your closest personal relationships. Your marriage in particular, as…
How to Fight FOR Your Marriage Not AGAINST Your Spouse
Your marriage is important. It means everything to you. Anything that important requires investment of time and energy. But the…
Why Not Every Marriage Can be Saved
Yes, God does miracles! He can and does transform the most destructive and hurtful marriages into shining demonstrations of His…
Do This, Not That: 5 Attitudes for a Better Marriage
Attitudes color everything. Attitudes develop usually without you realizing it. Some attitudes you brought to your marriage and some you…
Dealing with Triggers in your Marriage
The only people who don’t get triggered are those who are perfectly healed and completely mature. And neither you nor…
Want a Better Marriage? Start Breakthrough Prayers
A healthy marriage doesn’t just “happen.” You’ve learned that by now. And you’ve prayed and prayed, but nothing seems to…
When Your Marriage Needs a Breakthrough
Marriage is a good thing, as God designed it. But as with every good thing from God, your marriage is…
How to Keep Intimacy Alive After Fifty
The stereotype of an exciting sex life during the early years of marriage that simply disappears as you age is…
Can Any Good Come from Your Marriage Problems?
Your marriage is the union of two sinners. What a setup for problems! There are the “usual suspects” – money,…
The Power of Going First in Your Marriage
If your marriage relationship is great, you already understand what I’m going to talk about here. But if your marriage…
When You’re Not “Feeling It” With Your Spouse
In our modern culture most people would not get married without “feeling it” with your spouse. The emotional sense of…
Why an Invitation is the Better Door to Intimacy
If you’re married and reading this, it’s likely you want greater intimacy with your spouse. And for many people that…
5 Things a Wife Can Do for a Better Sex Life
What happens in your soul when you hear “better sex life”? For some women you’d like to shout, “better would…
5 Things a Husband Can Do for a Better Sex Life
Most men want sex. And for the many men who would like a better sex life with their wives, it…
How Unhealthy Christianity can Wreck Your Marriage
Isn’t making Christ the foundation of your marriage supposed to make things better? Then why are things between you and…
Things to Know and Do if You’re Married to an Addict
You love him/her. Really, you do. But your marriage is marred by addiction. Can you survive this? Can your marriage…
How to Grow to be Best Friends with Your Spouse
Are you best friends with your spouse? I hope so. The friendship factor in marriage is huge. It’s one of…
Making Deposits in your Relationship Trust Account
A marriage without trust is not much of a marriage. It’s relatively easy to break trust with your spouse, and…
8 Ways You May Have Broken Trust With Your Spouse
You can’t have a healthy marriage without trust. It’s comparatively easy to trust each other when the emotions are running…
How to Make Christ the Foundation of Your Marriage
It sounds good. You know you “should” do it. “Make Christ the foundation of your marriage.” But what does that…
What Sex Does for Your Wife
You want to be a good husband, the kind of husband God wants you to be. You love your wife…
What Sex Does for Your Husband
You want to be a “good” wife, the kind of wife God wants you to be. You love your husband…
When You Care More Than Your Spouse
Feeling as though someone else doesn’t care as much as you do hurts a lot. You want things to work…
When Your Spouse Chooses Work Over Family
You may have appreciated your spouse’s initiative and work ethic at first. But now the energy and hours they devote…
Why You Are NOT Entitled to Sex
You expected to be having sex with your spouse when you got married. And you may have also imagined that…
How to Repair Your Relationship After “I’m Sorry”
A good marriage is the union of two good forgivers. But when you’ve hurt your spouse it may take a…
What Forgiveness Does NOT Do for your Marriage
Your spouse is messing up BAD. He/she is having an affair, getting drunk, hiding out-of-control spending, using pornography, or engaging…
Ten Questions to Understand Your Spouse Better
How well do you know your husband or wife? You may have thought you knew them quite well when you…
12 Things Your Spouse Needs to Hear You Say During This Crisis
Stress can make people prickly. Crisis can uncover both the worst and the best in people. You need some grace,…
Your Marriage Under Lockdown
If things are wonderful between you and your spouse, lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic may seem great; you’ve got…
Stuck at Home with Your Spouse? 12 Ways to Make the Most of It
Stuck at home with your spouse? Date nights have become an important way husbands and wives in our culture stay…
Finding Spiritual Intimacy with your Spouse
God designed marriage to be an object lesson of the intimacy He desires with each one of us. That includes…
What You CAN Control in Your Marriage
Human beings love to be in control. But in marriage, when one person tries to control another true intimacy is…
What does Wholeness Look Like?
Jesus had a wonderful way of asking questions. You may know the story well. Jesus sees a man lying on…
How to Deal With the Control Freak In Your Marriage
We all know a control freak – that person who has to micromanage everyone and everything around them. Such a…
How I Decided to Marry a Divorced Man
Remarriage after divorce is one of those topics that can make otherwise “good” Christians become prickly, self-righteous, or downright vindictive.…
How I Learned to Love Well
While learning to love well is a life-long process, loving well was something I was privileged to deeply experience with…
Love is NOT All You Need
If you’re over a certain age perhaps you can hear it in your head even now: “All you need is…
What You Don’t Know About Marriage CAN Hurt You
Marriage as God intended it to be is about learning to love well. We don’t learn that automatically. What you…
