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Marriage Success

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Pastor Appreciation Month: Support Your Pastor’s Marriage

Pastor Appreciation Month comes every October but caring for your pastor’s marriage is something you can do all year. Here’s how.

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Relationship Rituals: 20 Ideas for Staying Connected to Your Spouse

Relationship rituals strengthen a marriage if they’re meaningful to both spouses. Check out these ideas to build connection in your marriage.

Marriage Conference Helps Couple Heal from Infidelity

Marriage conferences not only save marriages, they can help good relationships grow stronger. They made all the difference for this couple.

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God’s Plan for Marriage

What is God’s plan for marriage? Marriage is the full expression and design of God’s image in human beings.

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Finding Financial Unity in Marriage

Protect your marriage by avoiding these three financial stressors

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Find Your Hot-Button Issues to Improve Your Marriage

Couples often unknowingly push each other’s hot-button issues and cause frustrating arguments. Learn how you can stop this reactive cycle.

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How to Spice Up Your Marriage: 10 Simple Tips

If your relationship is feeling stale, what can you do? Learn how to spice up your marriage and rediscover your spouse.

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7 Tips for a Technology and Social Media Detox

Too much technology use can strain your marriage. Here’s a thoughtful way to begin a social media detox and build a healthier relationship.

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Sharing Anniversary Moments With Our Children

How my husband and I celebrated and made a family memory

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Too Busy to Connect With Your Spouse: A Guide for Mentors

Many spouses are too busy to connect with each other. Here’s how you can help a couple dealing with this common marriage problem.

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‘One Another’ Marriage Devotional: Encourage One Another

Satan wants to keep you isolated from other Christians so you don’t encourage one another. But fellowship can strengthen your marriage.

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Strengthen Your Emotional Connection in Marriage by Building Your Friendship

Friendship in marriage is vital, but the busyness of life can squelch it. Don’t let emotional connection in marriage fade away — revive it using these tips.

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‘One Another’ Marriage Devotional: Do Not Grumble Against One Another

You just had to vent a little. At least that’s what you told yourself. How bad could a bit of grumbling really be?

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‘One Another’ Marriage Devotional: Wash One Another’s Feet

In marriage, we have ample opportunities to “wash one another’s feet” without actually touching the tootsies.

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10 Encouraging Facts About Marriage You Need to Hear and Share

Do you know the real facts about marriage or just the myths? Find out the positive truth about marriage today.

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Focusing on The Good in the Early Years

Starting your marriage off well won’t happen by accident. To have a thriving relationship, it’s important to develop good habits early on. To help couples start well, John, Greg and Erin weigh in with some practical ideas for focusing on the best aspects of your spouse. Featuring Bill and Pam Farrel.

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How to Stay Married When Life Is Tough: Keep Paddling

Facing tough times is like paddling a kayak against a strong ocean gale. How do you stay married when life threatens to swamp your relationship?

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No S’more Competition in Our Marriage

Could we go from counting how many times we each did things for each other to counting on each other . . . and be rid of the competition in our marriage?

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The Spiritual Battle for Your Marriage

Based on his book Defending Your Marriage, Dr. Tim and Noreen Muehlhoff share about the reality of spiritual warfare against marriages, and how to combat the enemy’s lies with the truth of God.

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In-N-Out Burger Owner and Husband Grateful to Be Serving God Together

Lynsi Snyder-Ellingson and her husband, Sean, share how thankful they are for God’s grace and the joy of doing ministry together.