Marriage Update Archives

You’d like to be one of those couples that prays together daily and models what a spiritual home should look like. But if you’re like us, you’re...

My greatest fear was a broken home for my own children. And yet that's exactly what happened. Time for a leap of faith.

When you blend two families with different hurts, histories, habits and traditions, you simply have to allow room for awkwardness, insecurities and...

Because at the heart of it, real love is all about sacrifice. About the giving of yourself, in ways big and small.

A marriage flourishes when both husband and wife love Christ more than any other person in life––including one’s own spouse.

Traditional wedding vows include noble and Godly commitments. But they also have one glaring omission.

If you become obsessed with your longing to feel loved, you will become more preoccupied with self-satisfaction than with building a happy...

If high school chemistry has taught us anything, it’s that science experiments have predictable outcomes. Whether the mixing of two chemicals...

Let’s put Ephesians 5:22 in context. This passage is all about empowerment for EVERY member of the family.

Often those things that matter the most to us get in the way of our first loves.

We were created for connection. Certainly God had connection in mind when he created male and female—each to complement the other. Each were...

Many couples don’t understand how something as sterile-sounding as “commitment” can translate into lifelong love and happiness.

Marriage is an amazing gift from God. Yet the greatest gifts aren’t always cherished the way they should be. Many times, we start looking for the...

Is marriage even worth it when it causes so much pain?

Days are riddled with change for the newly divorced. Joined traditions are being pulled back apart, some of them simply lost. The sense of...