Trusting God Through Infidelity

Depositphotos_5585704_xs

By an Anonymous Guest Writer It Should Have Been the Happiest Day of My Life This was the moment I had anticipated for eight years. But when the EPT stick showed positive, my emotions were more sad than happy. My zeal for having a baby was stolen by a marriage that was having difficulties. At [...]

Suffering At the Hand of Your Spouse

Heart in a noose

By Contributing Writer, Marcia Wilwerding It doesn’t seem appropriate I should be writing a post regarding suffering at the hand of one’s spouse. My husband is the greatest blessing of my life next to my salvation. Yet, I have experienced firsthand the sufferings of my own family members at the hands of cruel spouses and have [...]

Preparing Our Children for Marriage

http://www.dreamstime.com/-image12710625

By Contributing Writer, Jennifer Ross If we are preparing children for adulthood, it would behoove us to prepare them for marriage.  Plain and simple.   In Scripture, marriage is normative and even expected. A man is to leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, that they be one (Genesis 2:24) in order for a godly offspring to [...]

Enjoying the Fruit of Family Discipleship

wedding2

By Contributing Writer, Ann Dunagan “Who gives this woman to be married to this man?” When it’s finally time for this question to be answered, four simple little words spoken by the father-of-the-bride have monumental meaning: “Her mother and I.” For the parents, these words signify a time of completion and a marker of finality [...]

Holiness, Romance, and…JOY!!! (with 3 sweet love stories from our children)

Our growing family -- now with 10 kids!!!

By monthly contributing author, Ann Dunagan of Harvest Ministry Around our house, it’s an understatement to say that LOVE IS IN THE AIR!!! This past year, my husband Jon and I celebrated our 25th anniversary (with a surprise “wedding” in the middle of a church service in which the two of us were ministering together [...]

Preparing Children for Courtship–Why and How?

Romantic kiss

By Contributing Writer, Bambi Moore Courtship is a hot topic among many parents and rightly so. The whole 20th century experiment of dating around to find a mate has miserably failed. All those lovely engaged couples you see in the newspaper? Just go ahead and rip over half of them down the middle. They may remarry [...]