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Brad Brogden 02/26/10
"Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor." 1st Corinthians 10:24Dudes + Chicks can often = fights. Why is that? Well, if you're being honest with yourself, it is mainly due to the FACT that more often than not, you (not someone else, but you) are seeking your own good, not the good of the other person in the relationship. Whether that is a wife, a girlfriend, a best friend, an acquaintance or even a stranger you just met, fights almost always arise from the ...
Linda Martin 02/25/10
Mike and I were married before we even met, but not to each other. Both of our first marriages ended within the first two years due to infidelity and abuse. We were both the innocent victims of these divorces. Even though we were quite young, early 20’s, we had learned valuable lessons about marriage and what doesn’t work. Once I said “yes” to Mike’s many proposals in 1968, we vowed to each other to be totally faithful and trustworthy. Through ...
Dave & Jessi Callahan 02/24/10
"Be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you." Ephesians 4:32
We were quite humbled when approached to write a devotional about respect in relationships. We had always been quick to identify a lack of respect in others’ interactions with each other and had a handful of friends whom we have long admired in their interactions with each other and those around them. Often we would attempt to duplicate what we thought they ...
Todd & Danielle Jorgenson 02/23/10
Part of what makes God so complex is trying to grasp the idea of his forgiveness for us. Why is it so easy for Him to forgive all our sins? It is our own sinful nature that makes forgiveness so hard. Once we can understand His love for us and how he can so easily forgive us, we can begin to understand how forgiveness should look in our marriage. Even as Stephen (Acts 7) was being stoned to death he understood God’s love for those stoning him and asked God to ...
Jeff & Marybeth Dillard 02/22/10
When we thought about our marriage and when we think of each other the first thing that comes to mind is love. As a Christian though, the glory in that thought, is that we know that Christ IS love; therefore Christ is the epicenter, start and end of our marriage. To us, Biblical marriage means loving Christ more than we love each other. If MaryBeth’s joy comes from Jeff, then he will often fail her. And if Jeff sets his foundation on MaryBeth, he will constantly be disappointed. In ...
