Category: Marriage

“Thoughts from your Staff”

“A healthy marriage is when she feels like his princess, he feels like her prince, and both know that Jesus is King.”Pastor Stephen – married 17 years Prayer is key. Pray with your spouse every night. I firmly believe that is the main reason my husband and I are still married. It’s hard to stay mad at a person you’re supposed to pray with.Joan Lehto, Ministry Assistant – married 27 years Treva and I are

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“Why It Doesn’t Matter If Your Spouse Is Wrong”

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;”    Every reasonable person knows there’s a right way and a wrong way to load a dishwasher. This being the gauge, it seems that a disproportionate amount of married couples are made up of one reasonable and one unreasonable partner. One

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“But What if I’m Single?”

1 Corinthians 7:8-9, 32-35 “To the unmarried and the widows, I say that it is good for them to remain single, as I am. But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion.   I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord. But the married man is anxious

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“In the Garden”

Genesis 2:24 “Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.” I know in my life many times I forget just how much a part of me my wife really is. As I struggle through life’s daily challenges, I forget that I am not struggling alone but that God created my wife to be there at my side and one with me. The other day

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What does Genesis 2:23 say about Gender Equality?

Genesis 2:23 “Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones     and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman,     because she was taken out of Man.” Have you ever wondered why God did not make Eve at the same time as Adam? It was definitely not to show Adam’s superiority. God made Eve separate from Adam to illustrate the worth and connection of male and female.

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“Teamwork Makes the Dream Work”

Genesis 2:18-22 “Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” Now out of the ground the Lord God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name. The man gave

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