Marriage Ministry

What does it mean to be a wife? Why is a wife much more than a homemaker? How can a wife align with God’s intent and transform her home and community? Dear woman, being a wife is a calling! Your role as a wife is for a divine purpose. You are a specially designed change agent - a vessel God uses to transform the world - starting first with the home! Being a wife goes beyond just being a homemaker. And whether you are aware of it or not, you are the fulfilment of God’s prophecy to your husband and family.

Marriage, like a knot, has to be kept tight. Left to itself, it loosens over time and can completely unravel. This highly practical book focuses on the everyday decisions you can make to rejuvenate and restore your marriage. Delving into topics like communication, sex, conflict resolution, and more, it offers the tools you need for life-long marriage health.

What kind of advice would married couples in the Bible give to couples today? The Bible provides a rich history about couples who experienced every imaginable hardship and obstacle. Now, their experiences come to life in How to Build a Lasting Marriage. This is a practical book for couples who want to build an enduring marriage based on biblical truths.

After eight years of youth ministry and four years planting a church, I was done. It was over. A lethal combination of overwork, misplaced identity, and a stress-induced sense of panic took me out. Our marriage, once a vibrant ministry partnership, began to wobble. We struggled, we fought, and eventually we settled for a child-centric relationship that lacked passion and purpose. But God gave us another chance. We are now experiencing the reality of a marriage on mission. This is our story.

Lasting Marriage is an encouraging and insightful book that will help your marriage grow and strengthen in love and service to each other. You will learn how your marriage can become one of those success stories you hear about. You will be more in love with your spouse at your 50th wedding anniversary than on your wedding day. By knowing and applying God's meaning and purpose of marriage into your relationship, you will have a lasting marriage.

Infidelity. Deceit. Murder. Faith. Forgiveness. Restoration. One of the most remarkable true stories you’ll ever hear. Diane Nichols received repeated phone calls from a stranger. The female caller mocked and ridiculed her, eventually disclosing the most painful news a wife could hear: Diane’s husband, John, was having an affair with the 19-year-old caller.

Tony and Lauren Dungy have together known the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. They fell in love, built a family, and made sports history when Tony became the first African-American head coach to win the Super Bowl. Yet they've also gone through difficult, relationship-testing setbacks, including job loss and devastating personal tragedy. In a culture where it seems harder and harder to make marriage last, what has kept the Dungys strong through it all?

If you are feeling chained to or curious about sex but also trying to live your life for God, this audiobook is for you. It sounds crazy to form a sentence that way, but that is who I was. I was a young girl who loved God and deeply wanted to live a good Christian life, but I became caught up in wanting to feel wanted.

The best marriages are not necessarily the most perfect and picturesque. Marriage is about walking together through all of life's ups and downs; its challenges and triumphs. Collecting true stories from some of today's best writers, Dawn Camp offers listeners a chance to sit back and reflect on the heart of marriage. With poignant prose, this collection is a great gift for the bride-to-be, the couple celebrating a significant anniversary, or for any time listeners need a lift.

In The Epic Marriage, Daniel and Jenny Vassell do not evade some of the most critical issues confronting Christian couples. They made it clear that epic marriage is not an event, but a process or a journey two people pursue who are madly in love. This process or journey is riddled with many twists and turns, and a whole raft of uncertainties. The audiobook is replete with information that couples will find beneficial as they pursue their marital journey. The authors provide an honest appraisal of marriage within the current context.

Thousands of conscientious believers wanting to honor the sacred vows they took before God suffer in dysfunctional, even dangerous marriages. Each and every day they must choose between the lesser of two evils: divorce without sound biblical support or a life of perpetual, unrelenting misery. Somewhere between the secular disregard for the commands of Christ and the sacred unwillingness to deal with real problems of people, there is a way.

Seven great chapters on the foundations of marriage and family, including "Why Women Are Weird & Men Are a Mess", "How to Love Your Spouse - Regardless", "Why Christian Children Rebel", and more.

Do you know someone who could use some encouragement? Perhaps that someone is you. When God Makes Lemonade comes from the lives of everyday folk - a collection of stories about people like you who have discovered unexpected sweetness in the midst of sour circumstances. Some of these real-life stories are laugh-out-loud funny, others are sobering, and more than a few will have you reaching for a tissue. But these true stories all have one thing in common: hope.

When police raided the Short Creek compound of the Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1953, it soon became a political and publicity nightmare and eventually cost the governor of Arizona his job. From that point on, skittish public officials allowed the polygamist sect to practice its tenants unmolested for the next 50 years and turned a blind eye to child abandonment, kidnapping, statutory rape, incest, and massive tax and welfare fraud. But then Warren Jeffs, a new FLDS prophet, escalated the sect’s crimes to near madness.

Marriage is enormous. What you're thinking about or preparing for here is no fool. Try not to figure you can simply add marriage as another layer to effectively bustling life. Marriage requests a full preparing for marriage resources. Reconsider your duties, check your needs, reevaluate your ordinary. Ideally, this audiobook and different assets like it will help. It's definitely justified even despite the speculation of genuine inquiries and cautious idea.

Parenting teenagers is one of the biggest challenges parents face. New realities make becoming independent more difficult. Teens are traveling a different road and are moving at a different pace than those of previous generations. Today's cultural environment is more complicated and confusing than ever. But fear not! Family expert Jim Burns provides a handy guide for parenting teens.

From Mel White, author of Stranger at the Gate: To be Gay and Christian in America: "In Two Pews from Crazy, the author takes us on a painful but always hopeful spiritual journey. Cyd has a great sense of humor. Her story is honest, frank, easy to follow, and never dull. And though her journey is sometimes painful, it is also a celebration of god's presence and power in the life of a lesbian Christian pastor who never stops believing that god loves her and is with her every step of the way. "

What would you do if a mysterious stranger showed up at your door and said that you and your spouse have inherited a magnificent estate from a fabulously rich relative, and he wants to take you there the following morning?

Harriet Sulcer didn't want anybody to know her husband had left home. For more than 20 years, she had been leading Bible studies on the Christian family, and now her own family was falling apart. "If I don't tell anybody," she thought, "maybe Lou will come home before they find out." Lou was gone for 10 years. During that time, their teenage son began his own prodigal journey. Harriet fell into depression and then financial bankruptcy, losing her home, then losing herself. As she lay in the hospital bed, Harriet's daughter told her, "They want to move you to the fifth floor."

Renew your imagination for what family life can be. Many of us feel overwhelmed about the prospect of raising children in our high-performance, rapid-pace culture. Reflecting on difficulties from our own families of origin can increase our doubt and insecurity about being a good parent. Positive examples of family life can seem few and far between. Mark and Lisa Scandrette understand these challenges, and in Belonging and Becoming they cast a compelling vision of what the family can be.