Share Your Thoughts

Giving you a heads-up on two upcoming opportunities to share your thoughts with the world. Want this button? On Monday, June 7, join e-Mom at Chrysallis to share your honeymoon experience and/or thoughts on Marriage Monday Share your own honeymoon experience (family-friendly) or your advice for couples planning a honeymoon. Get the details at Marriage [...]

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Giveaway – AWI “one” Marriage Online Conference

Enter to win a “ticket” to the A Woman Inspired “one” Marriage Online Conference, May 10-12, 2010 Read the details of the conference at A Woman Inspired’s website. To enter, comment on a blog post (not including this one) on this site and include a note stating that you would like to be entered in [...]

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Pray Together – It Just Might Save Your Marriage

Last week, e-Mom hosted Marriage Monday where the topic was prayer in marriage. I didn’t do the math, but a lot of women admitted that praying together with their husband does not happen in their home, at least not on a regular basis. As I had posted in Marriage Monday – Praying in Marriage, Family [...]

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All for Want of an Exclamation Point!

My husband and I were watching Seinfeld the other night, you know, that wildly popular show about nothing in particular. Elaine finally met the perfect man, as she does every now and then. When she came home from work, the apartment was cleaned up and dinner was on the stove. He even wrote down the [...]

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Marriage Monday – Prayer in Marriage

My husband and I have prayed together from the very beginning of our marriage, and even while we were dating. From the time we were serious about each other, prayer came naturally. We hold hands and pray together at every meal, whether at home or at a restaurant, and every night before we fall asleep. [...]

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Men: Overcoming Visual Temptation, Your Heart

You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eye ~ Song of Songs 4:9 Thus far in our discussion, we have briefly touched on the first two perimeters of defense in the war on sexual impurity: your eyes and your mind. Today we touch [...]

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Men: Overcoming Visual Temptation, The Eyes

Look to the Lord and his strength ~ Psalm 105:4 In yesterday’s post Men: Overcoming Visual Temptation, An Introduction, three “perimeters of defense” were presented in order to wage war on the enemy of visual temptation that leads to sexual impurity. … your objective in the war against lust is to build three perimeters of [...]

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Men: Overcoming Visual Temptation, An Introduction

Two of the most impassioned comments I have received were posted in response to Five Things Your Husband Wants You to Know (but might not know how to tell you). In particular, the comments were in response to * Just because a man notices another woman doesn’t mean he doesn’t find you attractive. If you [...]

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15 Minutes to Strengthen Your Marriage (Revisited)

This post originally ran on October 3, 2008. In honor of my friends from Indiana to Washington, D.C., who are snowed in today, try one or more of these simple things to strengthen your marriage whatever the weather where you live. ————————————————————- 15 Minutes to Strengthen Your Marriage In making our homes a sanctuary, Rachel [...]

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Marriage Monday – You Have My Heart

A special thanks to e-mom for hosting Marriage Monday and for early posting of the topic How to Celebrate February 14 Every Day of the Year. You see, I’m a muller. I might have an idea for a post or a writing, often in the wee hours of the morning when brain activity seems to [...]

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