His heart was fluttering because he’d been waiting more than 20 years for this day. The excitement of spending his life with someone he loved and thought God had assigned to him and ONLY him was overwhelming. Standing at the altar, a myriad of feelings were surging through his being—relief, anticipation, anxiousness, excitement, and the…
What is spoken over us is who we will become. As humans, we are impressionable and we tend to conform to whatever we hear about ourselves the most. When it comes to marriage and relationships with significant others, this is no less true in the least. God knows this about us and that’s why he…
The youth pastor at our church got married last month. While I wasn’t able to attend, I heard the pastor made a point not often discussed: there are six people that enter into the marriage—you, your spouse’s expectation of you, God’s view of you, your spouse as they understand themselves, your expectation of your spouse,…
You will keep perfectly peaceful the one whose mind remains focused on you, because he remains in you. —Isaiah 26:3 I heard a pastor’s wife share her story of how her marriage became better in the first few years the other day. Her story was one with the potential to strengthen any marriage at any…
All marriages face disappointment. It doesn’t matter how well matched or how mature we are. We shouldn’t feel worried about occasional bouts of disappointment. We should feel concerned if we get stuck there. When we experience disappointment and it’s neither spouse’s fault (such as a loss of employment due to corporate downsizing or infertility), we…
