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Strengthening Your Marriage

Can There Be Light After Darkness?

Overcoming starts by facing struggles that often lie hidden in darkness. Learn how to walk the path of light personally and within your marriage.

Nourish: Treat Your Spouse in Valuable Ways

When you treat your spouse with compassion, it creates a safe environment to share your deepest thoughts and feelings.

When the Music Fades

After the Fall, the beautiful harmony within human relationships and, in fact, the entire creation, devolved into dissonance.

Reclaiming the Heart of Marriage

God calls us to a renewed life, but it still takes patience, sacrifice, discipline and compassion.

Marriage: God’s Idea

If you’ve tried understanding marriage through the world, there’s a better way.

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Finding Stability Amidst Marriage Stressors

Couples lose their orientation towards God and each other when buffeted by cultural ideology, family history and personal choices that are contrary to God’s plan.

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A Spoken Message/Attaching High Value to a Spouse

When we decide to place high value on our spouse, and then back that up with spoken words, it can do wonders for a relationship.

Marriage: A Sacred Dance

A basic understanding of God, and how He created humans, will help develop deeper intimacy in marriage.

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Responding to the Music

God has called husbands and wives to serve as unique vessels of His love for the other.

A photo of a young couple sitting on the couch, facing each other. You can see the back of the woman, and the man is facing her, listening intently. If there's one thing I have been working on in my marriage, it's this need reconnect with my spouse through meaningful conversation.

Reconnect Through Meaningful Conversation

Deep, meaningful conversation is a must for couples hoping to stay connected. Here are some guidelines to keep in mind.

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Making the Most of Marriage Counseling

A Hope Restored Marriage Intensive is just the beginning of healing your relationship. In order to sustain any progress from the Intensive, it’s important for couples to seek the help of a professional counselor.

A young couple laughs together as they take a selfie in front of the Milan Cathedral. A simple way to keep your marriage fresh and fun — take every opportunity to share laughter-filled moments with your spouse.

Laugh Together as a Couple

A simple way to keep your marriage fresh and fun — take every opportunity to share laughter-filled moments with your spouse.

A man and a woman sit together intimately, gazing into each other's eyes. An emotional word picture simultaneously activates the emotions and intellect of the listener. It can go straight to your spouse's heart.

How to Create Emotional Word Pictures

An emotional word picture is a tool that simultaneously activates the emotions and intellect of the listener. When you use a word picture to communicate, it can go straight into your spouse’s heart.

A young woman sits at a table staring suggestively and flirting with a young man sitting next to her. Flirting is so much fun because the rushes and emotions are sexual. It can seem harmless, but it’s not. Flirting can hurt your marriage.

Flirting with Danger

Some people think flirting is just innocent fun, but is it? Here are some reasons why you need to be on guard and some steps on how to protect your marriage.

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Make Date Night With Your Spouse a Weekly Habit

Date nights help to maintain a healthy marriage and keep a couple on the same page in their relationship. Make a habit of establishing a weekly date night with your spouse.

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10 Simple Ideas for a Happier Marriage

Having a happier marriage may be easier than you think. You can do little things to add joy to your union. Here are inspiring stories written by couples on how they made their marriage happier.

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Encourage and Support Your Spouse

Here are some things you can do to encourage and support your spouse so that they can reach their full potential for God and for good.

A man and his wife joyfully run hand-in-hand-down a shoreline with big smiles on their faces. Here are five ways to cultivate more consistent joy in your marriage as you strive to reflect Christ's joy in your love for your spouse.

Five Ways to Find Joy in a Christian Marriage

God calls us to love our spouse as Jesus loved the church: joyfully and consistently. Here are five ways to do that.

A young married couple gaze longingly at each other in a field with some trees in the background. The newlywed wife holds her husband's right hand, as he lovingly strokes here hair. Can romantic love be reconciled with unconditional commitment in marriage? Yes. Covenantal commitment helps romantic love fulfill itself.

Living Out ‘I Do’: Keeping Love and Commitment in Marriage

It is the covenantal commitment that enables married people to become people who love each other. Only with time do we really learn who the other person is and come to love the person for him- or herself.

A woman sits on the couch with here back turned to her husband, arms crossed in front of her chest with an annoyed look on her face. Her husband sits with his back turned to her with his chin on his hands as if frustrated. After being married for a while, your spouse’s patterns can turn from cute quirks to annoying habits. Knowing how to cope is important.

Coping With Your Spouse’s Annoying Habit

After being married for a while, your spouse’s patterns can turn from cute quirks to annoying habits. Figuring out how to cope so that you don’t become highly critical of your spouse is important.