Marriage falls apart when selfishness takes over. If you want a Christ-centered marriage, stop making it about you and start serving your spouse like Jesus served you—selflessly, sacrificially, and without waiting for another to deserve it.
What God has joined together, let no children separate. If you’re not careful, prioritizing your children can lead to neglecting your spouse.
Adultery creates a type of pocket universe with two people living selfishly inside of it and disregarding the needs of those they have sworn to love. Flee from this sin as if your life depends on it because, in many ways, it does.
If husbands want to have a better marriage, then they need to do a better job of loving their wives. Do not wait around for your wife to make a change that you could start.
Our hobbies can easily become our obsessions when we spend more thoughts, time, effort, and money on them than anything else. Learn to like your hobbies and love your spouse.
Plan for a daily connection, a weekly date, and a yearly getaway for your marriage. If any or all of those three seem impossible to obtain, that reveals how great the need is.
If your spouse has hurt you, the issue must be addressed, but avoid showing frustration to one another for things other people have done. Don’t permit unfair marital frustration.
Every person needs to be aware of the little foxes scampering around his or her marriage. All marriages have specific minor issues that will turn into major issues if the couple refuses to address them.
Even if you are in a bad marriage, I have often said that there is never a completely one-sided divorce. Even if one party contributed 99% of the conflict, the other spouse hasn’t been perfect. While I have counseled that logic for years, I have changed my mind recently regarding that claim. After years of teaching, writing, and counseling, …
Writing and releasing a book on marriage is a dangerous thing. I suppose writing a book on anything is dangerous, but the topic of marriage is an especially bold topic to address. As a minister, I have often heard people communicate disapproval for a “younger” pastor sharing wisdom on marriage. What does he know about it anyway?
I definitely don’t understand it all, but I do understand it some. Here’s why I didn’t wait until I turned 99 to write a book on marriage.
Since I have released my book on marriage this week, I have been encouraged by feedback. Granted most of the encouragement has come before they have read the book, but I appreciate it nonetheless! What God Has Joined Together was a resource I struggled with starting and finishing.
I’m happy to announce that my new book, What God Has Joined Together, is now available! This targeted resource on marriage seeks to help equip you and your spouse to build the type of marriage the glorifies God. You can get your copy on Amazon.
What God Has Joined Together is a book written for the purpose of strengthening marriages. Putting together this resource was such a daunting yet rewarding assignment.
I am still working on the edits on a new book on marriage. It is titled, What God Has Joined Together. The book focuses on 31 short chapters of specific issues that attempt to separate a marriage.
My prayer is that these specific chapters will help strengthen and protect marriages. One of the most difficult things about this project was coming up with the list of needed chapters. What do you include? What do you leave out?
I mentioned a few days ago, that I am in the editing phase of a book on marriage. I have been so encouraged by those who read the premise of the book and have been praying for me and motivating me to finish it. It will prayerfully serve as a biblical and practical resource to help equip marriages. The thought was to call it “What God Has Joined Together” and each chapter would be a particular item that could possibly separate the marriage.
Many things will try to separate your marriage, but what God has joined together, let nothing separate. This video is one session in an 8-session series to help equip those considering or nearing marriage. In all honesty, these are helpful concepts for those who have been married for years as well.
Here is a sermon I preached at North Side’s 2016 Marriage Conference. In this intro session, we look at Malachi 2 and seek to divorce-proof a marriage by looking at the steps that drive us away from our spouse.
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