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Be Generous
It may seem unnecessary to encourage generosity during THE season for giving, but my encouragement is to draw your attention to a blogging friend who does this very well. Meet Lori Byerly, of The Generous Wife blog. She is an … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Love, Christian Marriage, Growing Strong Marriages, Guest Post
Tagged David, God, Goliath, Hugh Downs, LORD Almighty, Ordinary, Thomas Moore, Winston Churchill
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So, Where’s Your Focus?
Debi’s post yesterday touched on having spiritual myopia – that is being near-sighted to where we miss seeing what’s most important. Have you ever taken a picture where the camera failed to focus on the what you wanted it to … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Marriage, Growing Strong Marriages, Purpose, Spiritual Intimacy, The Gospel & Marriage
Tagged Christian, God, marriage, Myopia, Relationships
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10 Questions To Diagnose Your Marital Health
We are currently reading Donald Whitney’s book, Ten Questions to Diagnose Your Spiritual Health, and I must tell you, it is encouraging, convicting and compelling. I find myself responding to what I read in the way I believe the author … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Marriage, Difficulty, Growing Strong Marriages, Spiritual Intimacy, The Gospel & Marriage
Tagged Christ, Compassion, Donald Whitney, God, Health, Jesus, marriage, Relationships, Spiritual Myopia, Spouse, Ten Questions To Diagnose Your Spiritual Health, The Great Physician
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A Heart To Bless
Our B.I.G. Christmas Giveaway Contest has proved to be our best contest ever. Thank you to all who took the time to share with us your stories and your heart to bless your spouse for Christmas. We wish we could … Continue reading
Posted in Contests, Date Night Ideas, Holidays, Mark Your Calendars (time sensitive), Orlando Date Ideas
Tagged Christmas, Christmas Day, God, Holidays, Home, Jesus, New Year
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Happy Hour
It is time once again for our “Specials of the Week!” Enjoy… Encourage Your Spouse Have Courage – Be A Support – I love history, and Lori does an excellent job of telling a story from which we can glean … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Love, Christian Marriage, Growing Strong Marriages, Happy Hour
Tagged Christian, God, Holy, Husband, marriage, relationship
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Hindrances To A Merry Christmas #4 – Regret
Regret is a powerful master. It can hinder our best intentions, and it can paralyze our future. It invades every thought and deed and all the while robs us of the joy there is in doing good to others. What … Continue reading
Whom God Has Made You To Be
First of all, we are changing the name of our Monday posts. It will be relevant to what we are posting about, but will still include our weekly “Mark Your Calendar” information. Thanksgiving has come and gone for another year. … Continue reading
Our Joy Has Been Made Full Because Of You!
Happy Thanksgiving from Our Heart to Yours! We have spent the past three years getting to know each of you as best we can via the internet. We have shared our heart for marriage, our love for God and our … Continue reading
Thanksgiving – The New Black?
It is the day before Thanksgiving in America. A day we all look forward for varied reasons – the food, the family gathering, the football. It is a day fraught with memory-making opportunities. For Christians, it is the day we … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays
Tagged Black Friday, Friday, God, Holidays, Retail, thanksgiving, United States
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Mark Your Calendar
New life – there’s nothing like it. Whether you’re a new born baby, like our 1st great nephew, Django Kelly Sanchez, who was born on Saturday: Or you’re newly born again. (I will celebrate my spiritual 42nd birthday on December … Continue reading
Posted in Date Night Ideas, Growing Strong Marriages, Mark Your Calendars (time sensitive), Orlando Date Ideas
Tagged Friday, God, marriage, Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, Orlando Florida, thanksgiving, World Hello Day
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WHY Is It Important To Study Your Spouse?
Bonnie Anderson with the Ship Bound For Tarshish blog is a good friend of ours. When we celebrated our third blogiversary she made the comment that three year olds are notorious for asking why this? why that? why? why? why?! … Continue reading
Mark Your Calendar
Have you ever noticed how after a big event or high point in life it is usually followed by a let down? Trying to adjust to normal life can make one feel downright blue. Why? Most likely it is because … Continue reading
Posted in Date Night Ideas, Mark Your Calendars (time sensitive), Orlando Date Ideas
Tagged Arts, God, iTunes, November, Orlando, Orlando Florida, Sunday, Wine Festival
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Happy Blogiversary!
We’re Three Years Old – TODAY!! ♥ Wow ♥ We’ve made it three years, and we couldn’t be more excited about what God has done and is doing. We know you’re here because of the anticipation we’ve built, right? So we won’t … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrations, Christian Marriage, Growing Strong Marriages
Tagged Blog, Blogiversary, God, Handhelds, HTML, IPhone, Protocols, Relationships, Smartphones, You're So Good To Me
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A Deadline Or A Life Line?
I’m making a confession to you today. It has been something I’ve been afraid to mention for fear I would kill my progress. I have been writing a book. It isn’t about marriage per se. It’s an historical fiction based … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrations, Christian Marriage, Difficulty, Growing Strong Marriages, The Gospel & Marriage
Tagged Deadlines, God, Life Line, One, Writer, Writer Resources, Writers Block, Writing
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A Double Post of Encouragement
We return to our joint post with Lisa Graf of Mom Blog today. We are sharing practical tips on how to encourage your spouse. Lisa’s post is in purple and mine is in wine. And if these aren’t enough we … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Love, Christian Marriage, Growing Strong Marriages, Guest Post, The Gospel & Marriage, Wives
Tagged Encourage Your Spouse, Encouragement in Marriage, Family, God, Graf, Home, Husband, marriage, Mom Blog, Parenting, relationship, Three
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Mark Your Calendar
How do you celebrate your wedding anniversary? Is it a special date on the calendar every year where you know you’re going to have quality time together? Or do you simply exchange cards? For the most part we have celebrated … Continue reading
Happy Hour
In eight days we will celebrate the 3rd Anniversary of The Romantic Vineyard. November 12, 2008 is when we first launched this blog. It has been unbelievably rewarding allowing us to meet some incredible people. You’ll meet some of them … Continue reading
Posted in Blog Love, Christian Marriage, Growing Strong Marriages, Happy Hour, The Gospel & Marriage
Tagged God, Holiday, Husband, marriage, relationship, Romance, thanksgiving
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What’s Eating You Anyway?
About nine years ago we did an addition on our house after much deliberation as to whether we should do it or move. Since we live in a neighborhood with about a dozen close friends from our church, we decided … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Marriage, communication, Conflict, Difficulty, Growing Strong Marriages
Tagged Conflict in Marriage, God, Lord, marriage, Soil, Termite, Termites, Wood, Wood Rot
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Faithful In All Seasons
When we first said, “I do,” it was easy to be faithful in all things, because our love was fresh and new. We were like the leaves on the vine in spring. There was promise of life to come and … Continue reading
Posted in Christian Marriage, Difficulty, Growing Strong Marriages, Purpose
Tagged Child, Christian, Christianity, God, Lord, marriage, Monogamy, parenting teens, relationship, wedding vows
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