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Category Archives: Growing Strong Marriages
I’ll Do It If You Notice
In a marriage it’s important that each partner knows what is expected of them in order for the home to work well. You may do most of the inside tasks, while your spouse takes care of the ones outside. Or … Continue reading
Are You A Weed-Puller Or A Weed-Ignorer?
I’m sitting at my computer and I can hardly move. Why? Because I spent and hour and a half weeding my garden this morning before it got too hot. Every time I weed I wonder why it is that I … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Marriage, communication, Conflict, Difficulty, Growing Strong Marriages, Priorities, Troubled Marriage
Tagged Conflict in Marriage, Garden, God, Lord, marriage, Resolving Conflicts, Rose, Thought, Weed, Weed control
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The Unselfish Server
Tom and I went to a restaurant after our church service yesterday. It was a busy place with people everywhere. One of the servers (not our’s mind you) walked passed our table and noticed our two empty paper straw covers. … Continue reading
What If My Marriage Has Disappointed me?
This post continues the conversation that began with our post You Could Be Dissing Your Marriage And Not Know It. I’ve been thinking a lot about disappointments and how detrimental they can be to a marriage. If you have a … Continue reading
I.Love
We live in an age where we can stay connected with our spouse even when we’re not physically together. Social media has made the world so much smaller, and it can be a good thing when used to communicate our … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Marriage, Growing Strong Marriages, Music, romancing your spouse, Worship
Tagged Arts, August Rain, Christ, God, I Love, marriage, Online Writing, Poetry, relationship, Romance, Social Media Love Notes
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You Could Be Dissing Your Marriage And Not Know It
To diss someone is to: —v.t. 1. to show disrespect for; affront. 2. to disparage; belittle. As you can see to dis your spouse is not the way God intends for husbands and wives to relate. We are to show high regard and honor for … Continue reading
Happy Hour
This week we celebrated Independence Day in the United States of America. It was our nation’s birthday, and everywhere you looked you could see signs of the nationwide party about to take place. For our Happy Hour feature we wanted … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Love, Christian Marriage, Growing Strong Marriages, Happy Hour, Intimacy, The Gospel & Marriage, Troubled Marriage
Tagged Declaration of Independence, Dependence in Marriage, Hot Holy and Humorous, Independence Day, Independence in Marriage, Interdependence in Marriage, Jerry Maguire, marriage
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50 Daily Kindnesses
Pour their coffee in the morning and take it to them before they get out of bed. Write an encouraging Bible verse on the shower wall. Pray specifically for your spouse’s day and write a note telling them you … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Marriage, communication, Growing Strong Marriages, Romance, Romance in Marriage, romancing your husband, romancing your spouse, romancing your wife, Thankfulness
Tagged Be Kind One To Another, Bible, Chapters and verses of the Bible, Christianity, Kindnesses, Outdo one another, relationship, Snuggle
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Secret Word Game
This is a fun way to communicate a simple word to your spouse over the course of a day. Here is all you need to do: Think of a word you want to say to your spouse. It could be … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Marriage, Creative Dates, Date Night Ideas, Daytime Dates, Growing Strong Marriages, Romance in Marriage, romancing your husband, romancing your spouse, romancing your wife, Romantic Ideas
Tagged Arts, Encourage Your Spouse, Facebook, games, Paris, Post-it note, Romantic Secret Word Game, Secret Word Game, Video Games, Word, Word game
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The Longest Wait
Sometimes a story just needs to be told and retold. This story is one. I am struck by this widow’s commitment to her husband when she said, “He loved me his entire life, and I will love him for all … Continue reading
The Long Tomorrow
We have good friends who are busy planning a huge celebration for their parent’s 65th wedding anniversary. Can you imagine? 65 years together, walking through all kinds of changes. They were married in 1948. Most likely before any of us … Continue reading
Anniversary Round-Up
We’ve been collecting the anniversary dates of our FB fans the past couple of days, and last count we were at 156. We have nearly 3k fans, so we’re hoping to get a lot more of our readers to respond. … Continue reading
Posted in Anniversaries, Celebration Dates, Celebrations, Christian Marriage, Creative Dates, Date Night Ideas, Growing Strong Marriages, Romance in Marriage, Unique Dates
Tagged African Methodist Episcopal Church, Baskin-Robbin, Oklahoma, Olive Garden, Opal, Othello, Outback Steakhouse, Shopping, Wedding Anniversary Ideas
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Finding Satisfaction From Our Dissatisfaction
I know this sounds impossible. How can we be satisfied in something that makes us the opposite? Left to ourselves it would be impossible. But God uses the very things that dissatisfy us to bring us to a place where … Continue reading
It’s The Little Things
Romance. It means so many different things to different people. Some love to give and receive gifts. Some love to hear little words of affirmation. Still others enjoy surprising acts of kindness. Whatever your love language or your spouse’s–you should … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Marriage, Growing Strong Marriages, Hindrances to Romance, Music, Romance, Romance in Marriage, romancing your husband, romancing your spouse, romancing your wife, The Gospel & Marriage
Tagged Andrew Allen, Christianity, God, Little Things, One Direction, Romance in Marriage
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Expect-cations
You may have never put these two words together, but most likely you pack them both when heading out the door for your family get-away: Expectations and vacations. They seem to go hand in hand. But is this a good … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Marriage, Growing Strong Marriages, The Gospel & Marriage
Tagged Christ, Christian, Christianity, expectations, Family, God, HolySpirit, Jesus, Successful vacations, vacation
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Our Views Have Changed
When we bought Barefoot Cabin we knew upfront there were several things that needed to be done to make the property safer–like cutting down the 9 dead trees surrounding the cabin. It was sad to see these sentinels that used … Continue reading
The Wedge of Infertility
When most couples get married they are filled with hope of building a family together. Some choose to wait a few years to begin, some decide they don’t want to wait at all and end up getting pregnant on their … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Marriage, Difficulty, Growing Strong Marriages, Infertility, Troubled Marriage
Tagged Bible, Elkanah, Family, God, Hannah, Infertility, Pregnancy, Samuel
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