This article is an excerpt from 9 Lies that Will Destroy Your Marriage by Greg Smalley and Robert Paul No matter how your parents handled (or didn’t handle) conflict, you can create a new legacy for your marriage and family. You have the opportunity to use conflict—those times when you’re...
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5 Resources for A Christ-like Marriage
Marriage is a holy union of two people who vow to be devoted to each other in every season that life throws their way. It is a commitment made in front of the eyes of God that each spouse should aim to protect and guard. Have you found that your...
New Holiday Read: An Excerpt from The Wish Book
We all love a good Christmas-themed book to get cozy next to a roaring fire with! This month, dive into this excerpt from an exciting new title from Lynn Austin, The Wish Book. December 1951 Bobby Barrett stepped off the kindergarten school bus and his foot sank into a pile...
This Is What Leads Us to Thriving Marriage
"Love simply cannot grow when we’re in too much of a hurry to cultivate it." Taken from The Rhythm of Us: Create the Thriving Marriage You Long For by Chris + Jenni Graebe. In this article from Chris & Jenni Graebe, you’ll read from both of their perspectives. In this...
Take a Hurry Inventory
Taken from The Rhythm of Us: Create the Thriving Marriage You Long For by Chris + Jenni Graebe. In this article from Chris & Jenni Graebe, you’ll read from both of their perspectives. Take a hurry inventory. Yes, we’re asking you to answer the three questions below (even if you...
3 Ways that Rhythms Can Become Ruts In Your Marriage
Taken from The Rhythm of Us: Create the Thriving Marriage You Long For by Chris + Jenni Graebe While most of us can identify the main things that are bothering us in our marriage, sometimes we may not be able to pinpoint the patterns. It’s important, though, to find the...
Play is Not Only For Your Children
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.George Bernard Shaw Excerpted from Happy Now by Courtney Ellis As a little girl, growing up in the northern woods of Wisconsin, I played in our yard with knobbly toads I found hopping around the ferns,...
What if I Don’t Feel Like It?
YOUR will, Father, not mine. Those are hard words to come by sometimes. Adapted from Pray Confidently and Consistently: Finally Let Go of the Things Holding You Back from Your Most Important Conversation by Valerie Woerner. Obedience is hard to talk about, but it plays a crucial part in both...
Chosen Children
“She [Moses’s mom] saw that he was a special baby and kept him hidden for three months.” Exodus 2:2 (NLT) By Emily Assell, author of You Are. The fate of an entire nation depended on this mother’s ability to recognize and respond to God’s call on the life of her...
Never Grow Passive About Smashing Up False Images
Through the blood of Jesus, you have been made “blood” with God’s family. You are a child of God, with all the benefits and blessings that comes from being part of his incredible family. By Aubrey Sampson, adapted from her title, Known. “OH MY GOODNESS! Aren’t you just the spitting...
