Marriage Update Archives

Every pastor is faced by the dilemma of whether to marry certain couples. Some of the decisions get complicated really quickly.

Sometimes God is silent, our prayers go unanswered. When we are tired of the silence, we can still trust His heart.

It turns out that the mundane days of marriage are even more important than the big ones.

It’s often been said that A wedding lasts a day, but a marriage lasts a lifetime.

How do we keep love at the center of our marriages, when life is pulling you in all directions?

Because of the reverence that we should have for marriage, Satan and his minions are constantly whispering lies to believers about their...

While there are many questionnaires to assess your marriage, I have a simple method for determining whether or not you need immediate help.

There are six things that pastors absolutely can’t miss talking about during premarital counseling. Unfortunately, these things often get skipped...

Do you have the tendency to drift into using "thinking errors," regarding your spouse?

When is the right time to start a family? The answer to that is different for every family, but here are 6 major warning signs that you're not...

Debt isn't sinful. It isn't evil. But it is enslaving. It redefines a relationship between two people.

Somewhere along the way, we’d found it easier to pretend in certain areas of our relationship than to risk being completely real with one another.

It is very tempting in a crisis situation to make a number of mistakes in an attempt to stabilize a troubling situation.

My prayer is that the power of the gospel would drive how you date your wife and implement these ideas.

Many of the reflections I have about this first year are a lot different than what I thought they would be.