Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Important Church Celebrations: Marriage

Important Church Celebrations: Marriage
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her.
Ephesians 5:25 
When Jesus returned to heaven, He left behind one institution to continue His Gospel work—His church. He didn’t establish a university, a hospital, or an orphanage. He just left His church. Other wonderful ministries have sprung out of His church—like universities, missions organizations, and hospitals. But at the core of it all is His special group of people, the local church. This is where life happens. This is where babies are dedicated, where baptisms are witnessed, and where marriages are established.

Many Christians still pledge their wedding vows in the chapels and sanctuaries of our church buildings. Even when the wedding is elsewhere, the local church plays an important role in providing a spiritual foundation for the couple as they begin their marriage. Couples need spiritual underpinning to their homes. They need a local church.
Paul wrote his great passage about marriage to the local church at Ephesus. He knew that was where the teaching would take root—within the context of a church. To be stronger in your marriage, get involved in a God-honoring and Bible-teaching church in your community.
The Bible begins with a wedding and it ends with a wedding . . . . Christ performed his first miracle at a wedding, thereby sanctifying it.

Monday, June 8, 2015

Food For Thought

Food for thought for married couples

A great marriage isn’t something that just happens; it’s something that must be created based on love. Love is the greatest gift when given. It is the highest honor when received.

Something Marriage couples Should Think of

Something married couples should think of
God created marriage as a blessing but many people seem to be like they are in prison because they have not known the meaning of marriage and why the loving God created it.

In Marriage Love is the reason. Lifelong friendship is the gift. Kindness is the cause. Til’ death do us part is the length. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Being in a long marriage is a little bit like that nice cup of coffee every morning – I might have it every day, but I still enjoy it. Always remember A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. The difference between an ordinary marriage and an extraordinary marriage is in giving just a little ‘extra’ every day, as often as possible, for as long as we both shall live.

Wednesday, May 27, 2015

MARRIAGE TIP

Practice forgiveness

The unwillingness to forgive leads to bitterness, isolation, a burning anger and deterioration of the marriage. Forgiveness is a choice, not a feeling. So make the choice (repeatedly if necessary) to not hold past transgressions against your spouse.

Thursday, March 26, 2015

WHAT MAKES MARRIAGE A SUCCESS.

Marriage: Love is the reason. Lifelong friendship is the gift. Kindness is the cause. Til’ death do us part is the length. Always remember that A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. You must always know that being in a long marriage is a little bit like that nice cup of coffee every morning – I might have it every day, but I still enjoy it.

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

LOVE IS HARD WORK

Friends, let us learn to love our spouses. But remember this that  “Love is hard work. It is the hardest work I know of, work from which you are never entitled to take a vacation.”
The epidemic we are seeing in our society and increasing around the world is the unwillingness to work at love. Life can be hard. Two sinful people in the most intimate of unions can experience a stretch and strain in their relationship as life hits from unexpected directions. Instead of enduring and growing through the challenges, couples choose to leave and start over.
We believe the best, ripest and most fruitful love is the love that weathers the storms. Love that is hard work shows grace through each other’s failures and chooses to work at love because it is a commitment made to one’s spouse.
Here are three love areas described in the Bible that have direct application to our marriages:
Love like Jesus
Jesus himself said to his followers, “As I have loved you, so you must love one another.” (John 13:34) To love like Jesus means being proactive and choosing to sacrifice to meet the deepest needs of another.
In the context of marriage, what would it look like for you to be proactive in showing love to your spouse? Put another way, what would they really enjoy—that is a sacrifice for you—that only you can provide? A foot rub? A back rub? Prolonged conversation? Going on errands together when you’d rather stay home? You get the idea.
Love deeply
The apostle Peter wrote, “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” (1 Peter 4:8) The idea in the original language for loving “deeply” means to love earnestly, or without ceasing.
Your love for your spouse should be like a heat-seeking missile, locked on target and focused on your mate. There should be no distraction, no wavering, no deterrent.
To love like this means to reject conflicting emotions and thoughts. To take each thought captive and commit one’s self to one’s spouse regardless of conflicting emotions or circumstances.
It is this kind of love that can forgive and not hold your spouse’s sins of the past against them. To love deeply is to choose to show grace and move forward in life together. It is choosing to keep short accounts.
Love actively
The apostle John wrote: “…let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.” (1 John 3:18) To put it in today’s vernacular, “talk is cheap.”
Your love for your spouse is to be lived out in the dailiness of life. A powerful key to expressing love to your spouse is to show love based on their “love language.”
The five love languages are: Quality Time, Gifts, Acts of Service, Touch, and Words of Affirmation. If you don’t already know how your spouse likes to be loved—ask them which of these five resonates with their heart. Then respond accordingly!

How have you had to work hard on love in your marriage?  Love IS hard work. And love is REWARDING work. So work hard on love—as you build your marriage!

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Marriage Tip

Marriage Tip

Together may you live fully, laugh often, and love life’s simplest joys. Together, may you find in one another your best and dearest friend,