Marriage

Prayer helps us look away from our own mistakes and trust God, who created marriage in the first place. Through prayer, we find the power to stay close when life tries to pull us apart.

There is a massive catalog of ways in which God has shown up and confirmed that He has everything under control. These three lessons are perhaps the biggest things I’ve learned along the way.

Our society has a lot to say about gender roles, and often it feels at odds with what the Bible says. But is it manly for Christians to drink beer, watch sports, and act domineering? Together, we'll look at five incredible ways the Bible defines manhood.

If our hearts are right with the Lord, we see that being a helpmate is not the issue; both the man’s and the woman’s perspective has been problematic. Sin has crept into the relationship and into the ways we view God’s perfect design for relationships.

We see that God’s perfect design for humanity is man and woman, living together as one flesh in two separate bodies, tending and caring for God’s garden, all in obedience to and relationship with the Lord. It’s a commentary on marriage, on relationship, and on the holy work we are all tasked to do.

A touch, combined with a loving gaze and kind words, adds a powerful impact. There is something very basic and powerful about a loving touch.

Discover the foundational steps to building a truly happy Christian marriage, moving beyond societal misconceptions to embrace a relationship centered on God's love and guidance. Learn how obedience, truthful love, unwavering honesty, intentionality, and a deep reliance on Jesus can transform your marriage into a strong, enduring covenant.

We can never get to the point where we think we have earned the materialistic possessions we have or that we earned our position on a team.

For those of us who are believers in God, we utilize a biblical mindset to best handle the ebbs and flows of marital bliss. Wisdom, as expressed regularly through the Scriptures, must be adopted into one’s life and also one’s marriage.

When a rift occurs between two parties and we can’t reach reconciliation, we do not need to feel ashamed. We do need to consider how to move forward. Here are seven things to do when you can’t fix a relationship.

Sometimes, even after God resurrects a part of our lives, we're still bound by the "grave clothes" of unforgiveness, bitterness, and resentment. Holding onto those negative emotions is like...keeping the tomb door slightly ajar, allowing the darkness of the past to seep into our present.

Read 30 Bible verses about love with uplifting Scripture quotes on God’s love, loving others, and strengthening Christian relationships.

Here are 10 prayers to bless your home with protection, love, and peace.

Here’s how the challenge works. Every day for the next 30 days, you will pray in a specific way for your wife. We have provided related articles and Bible verses for you to study and pray over your wife.

Make prayer a priority in your marriages. Commit to praying for your husband daily, trusting that God hears your prayers and works in ways you may not always see but can trust are for your good and His glory.

Marriage is a joy and a blessing, but it won't always be easy. When tensions and anger take hold, when trust is broken, when it feels like God is silent - cling to these verses. 

My husband and I are knee-deep in the season of parenting young children, which is rewarding yet exhausting. Of course, our alone time is limited and quickly interrupted. So we have to get creative and focus on quality, not quantity, time together.

Research shows time and again that those married couples who date regularly, and furthermore, try new activities together, tend to have more meaningful relationships.

Disagreements, irritation, and even anger at our spouse don’t have to be relationship killers. When we are open to God’s leading in our hearts through our marriage relationship, He can (and will) use those times of conflict to help us grow and become more like Him.

The bigger topic in this part of Paul’s letter is living the Christian life appropriately, how to have healthy relationships between believers, and what Christian marriage should look like. After he addresses wives, he addresses husbands.