This Christmas Make Your Marriage Sparkle! This Christmas – Ways to Keep Courting After Marriage for Her: – Keep his favorite snacks on a special shelf in the refrigerator. – Bring home three perfume samples and ask him which one he likes best. – …
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Power in a Special Plate
Special Day Plate, Inspirational Perhaps you have a You Are Special plate. If not, run–don’t walk, and get one today! My family’s special plate is red with the words You Are Special Today printed along the rim. Some families have special birthday plates or maybe …
Double-Duty
As school routines and busy schedules start with full force, moms often find their personal free time is gone. Unless a family has the extra funds to hire housecleaning help, there are also a lot of necessary but time-consuming little tasks that will have to …
Your Marriage Matters to God
I was fortunate to be raised in the same church in Minneapolis, Minnesota for almost two decades. Our senior pastor, Dr. C. Philip Hinerman, served a remarkable multi-ethnic congregation for a total of 37 years. (Our youth pastor Art Erickson stayed for 25 years). When …
What Do You Want to Be When the Kids Grow Up?
When I was younger with small children, my husband occasionally came home from work to me bombarding him with talk. Once he said to me, “Talk to adults much?” and laughed. I said, “No! And that’s the problem.” I was not amused. My husband learned …
Eight Ways to Pray for Your Spouse
One of the most loving things we can do is to pray daily for our spouse. 1. Pray Jesus will bless your spouse today in some unexpected way. 2. Pray Jesus will allow you to be a source of joy to your spouse today. 3. …
Discontentment Highway
Molly Evert Counter Cultural Mom Several years ago I was shocked when a close friend had an affair and left her husband. We had gone on mission trips together, prayed together for the sick, worshipped together. It was truly a relationship “as iron sharpens iron” …
Praying Together
Jackie Henry Surveys show that Christian couples who pray together have a divorce rate of less than 1%. This proves that building a foundation of prayer within a marriage by praying together will enrich, enhance, and fortify your life together. Do you feel disconnected from …
Marriage Mintues…Life Together with No Regrets
How can you live a life together with no regrets? Nothing is so tragic as a life or marriage poorly lived. It doesn’t have to end that way. The two of you, today, can begin living a life that leaves no regrets. How? Keep short …
Praying According to God’s Will For Husband
Barbara Rainey of FamilyLife shares how she learned to pray according to God’s will for her husband.