Category: Marriage
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My Marriage is Full of Crap; 5 ways to make fertilizer for the future
From the get-go, let me say this: Storms don’t discriminate. They’re equal opportunity givers. Like the word “crap” or not. Every one of us have that/a word we utilize to describe a moment that didn’t suit us. It could encapsulate an entire event or the immediate feeling about the situation. We all have our “word.” You may be…
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Broken Trust: 8 Ways to rebuild trust back into your marriage.
He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds Psalm 147:3 Trust is a necessary element and is the foundation of every healthy relationship. In fact, trust is the security that makes intimacy possible in marriage. Like an organism, it must be nurtured and not ignored. My dad taught me years ago. “Trust is like…
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A “Yesterday Marriage”: 5 ways to help your marriage to not live off of re-runs.
Of all of our differences, Anne and I don’t really walk in agreement with the concept of re-runs. We both love shows and enjoy watching them together. But re-runs are a different story. I can only think of one show series in the past 17 years of marriage in which she’ll entertain the re-runs. But other than that,…
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Who Needs Sex? 7 ways to sabotage your marital sex life
It’s always been one of my favorite stories and it was just about the only form of premarital prep that my dad had before marrying my mom. Right before the ceremony, they began to throw a football together. My Uncle David looks at my father and says, “Harold, how do you think God thinks about sex?” I’m…
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Gold and White: 6 things the “Tumblr Dress” taught me about marriage.
I’m sitting watching a show with my daughter and during a commercial, I happened to look down at my twitter feed. Big mistake. The world was crazy with over the color of a dress. This phenom started Thursday with a Tumblr post. A lady posted a picture of a two-toned dress with the caption, “Guys please help…
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What to not forget about on Valentine’s Day! 1 Thing I want you to remember about February 14!
A week ago, I preached a message about rest. In that message, I had made a statement about the issues of vacations and sabbaticals. Would the urgency of vacations and sabbaticals, as well as the length of them, be necessary if we knew how to rest on a consistent, healthy basis? It doesn’t mean I don’t…
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Brownie Points: 4 Reasons why they may not be good for your marriage.
Cards. Candy, Socks (one of my favorite gifts). Flowers. They’re all those things that we purchase and hear someone say, “Somebody’s gonna get some brownie points for that.” In the completely accurate source of all knowledge, Wikipedia, Brownie Points are given a phenomenal definition. They’re a hypothetical social currency, which can be acquired by doing good…
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Warning Shots: 10 subtle actions your marriage needs to pay attention to.
You’ve opened my ears so I can listen. Psalm 40:6 I’m an aficionado of military movies. And there’s certain lines and terms that you can count on hearing frequently. For some reason, especially in movies involving ships, you’ll hear the term: warning shot. A warning shot is a military and/or police term describing an intentionally harmless…
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Eviction Notices: 8 Things to evict from your mind to help your marriage.
For as he thinks within himself, so he is. Proverbs 23:7 I can’t say that I’ve ever been given an eviction notice. But I assume it’s not a good thing to get one. In my lifetime, I’ve had my power shut off before. I’ve even had collections call. But to get an eviction notice, that’s something…
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The “Try”: 10 Things you should TRY in your marriage.
My wife married a sci-fi geek. I’m not ashamed of it. I embrace it. Anne, not so much. In his endeavor to become a Jedi, Luke finds himself needing to get trained by the best. It is here we get one of the most well-known figures in all of the Star Wars universe: Yoda. For us geeks, his…
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