Tag: love
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Foreplay is always “in play”: 6 Ways to Rethink Everyday Encounters with Your Spouse
Honor marriage, and guard the sacredness of sexual intimacy between wife and husband. Hebrews 13:4 (MSG) From the get-go of this blog, please note: The goal isn’t to get more sex into your marriage (though I’m not against that whatsoever). The goal is to develop intimacy. Sex doesn’t necessarily lead to intimacy. Intimacy doesn’t always…
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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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Spectator Church
I do my normal Monday thing. Well before the office opens, I sit in a undisclosed coffeehouse location and pen out messages (my fancy way of saying “I type out sermons on my computer”). I find myself reflecting on yesterday’s message points by Ron Maddux: Out of context of the story of his life, these seem…
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My Marriage is Terribly Inconvenient!
I’ve been married 16 years. I love being married and I can’t imagine life without Anne. We have had some great times and moments. We laugh a lot together. We have two fantastic children and we are blessed to serve in an amazing church is their pastor. But I’ll say this is of my marriage: It…
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Marriage Blog: Leave the Money on the Nightstand
Having a few weeks off of blogging, my heart has been burning to blog on a subject that has crumbled and continues to eat away at so many marriage. Paul addresses it in the famous “love chapter”: Love “does not demand its own way.” 1 Corinthians 13:5 This cancerous element has no place in your life. It…
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2 Minute Marriage Devo – Day 5
Welcome to our 2 Minute Devos. This month we are in our Annual Marriage Series at Kalamazoo First Assembly of God and we’re going through devotions for couples. Take the time to read through the passage of the day and listen to the 2 Minute Devo. 2 Corinthians 5:14-18 New International Version (NIV) 14 For Christ’s love compels…
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2 Minute Devo Series: Book of Matthew Day 25
Welcome to our 2 Minute Devos. This month we’re going through the Book of Matthew. Take the time to read through the passage of the day and listen to the 2 Minute Devo. Matthew 27 English Standard Version (ESV) Jesus Delivered to Pilate 27 When morning came, all the chief priests and the elders of the…
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2 Minute Devo Series: Book of Matthew Day 22
Welcome to our 2 Minute Devos. This month we’re going through the Book of Matthew. Take the time to read through the passage of the day and listen to the 2 Minute Devo. Matthew 21 English Standard Version (ESV) The Triumphal Entry 21 Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount…
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2 Minute Devos: Crash – Day 16
Welcome to “Crash”…every day: Glorify God. Pray over the daily prayer point. Pray for the lost. Today’s Scripture: 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant 5 or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;[a] 6 it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, butrejoices with the truth. 7 Love bears…
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