Is Facebook Bad for your Marriage?
Are you one of the 500 million active Facebook users around the world today? Maybe you access a range of social media platforms daily, or maybe you’re a little wary…
Category: Marriage
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The Harm Pornography Causes
In 2010 the Witherspoon Institute published a book of over 260 pages entitled The Social Costs of Pornography: A Reader, with a Foreword by Jean Bethke Elshstain and an Introduction…
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Praying together as a couple
Introduction We are convinced that praying together as a couple saved our marriage. This is why we want to encourage all couples to pray together daily. In marriage the spouses…
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Safe and Clear Communication
To handle a conflict well is critical for the future of a marriage, so we need to be able to communicate clearly and safely. This requires using agreed–upon strategies and…
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Handling conflict
Because conflict, differences and disagreements are inevitable in marriage, and indeed are to be expected; then it is imperative that we learn constructive ways to handle these. Professor Howard Markham…
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Forgiveness—the key to healing
It’s probably true to say that most of us have been hurt in someway in our childhood. Too often we remain, to a greater extent, bound and oppressed by the…
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Nurturing the unborn child
In today’s culture where abortion is an accepted fact of life, and not even given much serious thought by the majority of people, is it surprising that the tiny blob…
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A sign for all to see
Is your marriage a sign, a beacon to those around you? Do others see you as a loving couple, an advertisement for marriage? These are questions we should constantly be…
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Priorities in Family Life
Do we ever give a thought to the priorities in our married life? We are all told “You must love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your…
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Parents’ nightmare—cohabitation
Today, if we comment adversely about our son living with his girlfriend, or our daughter cohabiting with her boyfriend, we are likely to be told that we are “too old…