Engagement & Newlyweds Archives

It’s easy to become overwhelmed with the enormous responsibilities of planning a wedding. But you can find the peace God wants you to have if you...

As your spouse serves our country in the military, you serve as well, providing support on the home front and making many sacrifices...

Before you get caught up in wedding plans, you may want to pause and take a breath. You’re about to engage in the biggest fight of your life,...

Dating your husband or wife will be very different from dating a potential husband or wife. But it’s just as important...

We can never hope to live rightly as spouses unless we are living rightly as God’s people. Stated differently, we must make sure that we are in...

In their 30 years of marriage, Author Rick Warren and his wife Kay have learned that successful marriages are built upon the biblical truth that...

In a very real sense, God the Holy Spirit is the agent of sanctification in the life of believers. Although his ministry to us is sometimes direct...

How much do you know about the differences between men and women's brains? And what do the facts ultimately mean to the life of a believer?

Not long ago one of my assistants attended a modern wedding. It was a lovely ceremony — so why did my assistant think that everything seemed so...

Young wife Tobi Layton and seasoned wife Deborah Raney share how they've overcome obstacles such as spiritual immaturity, awkwardness and busy...

In life, most of us want what we want, and we want it as soon as possible. The vocation of marriage frustrates our natural hurriedness by forcing...

When marriage is marginalized, character suffers. James Q. Wilson, author of The Ties that Do Not Bind , asserts, "Of all of the relationships into...

It is very rare for a relationship to move from lacking spiritually to strong growth overnight. In the same way, it takes time and careful...

If you are like most couples, you have a desire to become more intimate spiritually. Marriage expert Jim Burns delves into some of the key reasons...

When Mark and I started dating it was our differences that attracted us to one another. It only took about six months of marriage for those same...