Our search to understand love is obvious when you consider the numerous books, articles and talk shows dedicated to the topic. People around the world deem love as essential to being happy and look for it in many different places and ways. Television and movies tell us what "real love" should look like but somehow something has been lost... >Read More

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The first year we were married and in full-time ministry together, my husband, Jeff, and I worked all the time, rarely finishing before 10-11 pm. One weekend, I counted 29 extra meals I served to university students we invited over. Students would come and use our computer so late at night that they would see themselves out after we... >Read More

Tags: Andrea Groenwald, biblical model, church involvement, healthy marriage, marriage, ministry, protecting your marriage, sex and love, spiritual disciplines, spiritual growth, spiritual intimacy, women and men

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During several weeks in October, my husband and I worked hard to get a home we once lived in ready to sell. We painted and papered, scraped and scrubbed, washed and mended. Our house had been rented out for some time, so restoring it seemed like caring for an ailing friend. As we applied elbow grease to a long list... >Read More

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I want to build my family on God's principles, but my spouse has very little interest in spiritual things. What do I do? Advice: Dave: Donalyn and I sympathize with you, and the challenge that your circumstance brings. The complexities you face as you try to influence your family will be difficult, but the impact of your life really can... >Read More

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What advice would you give to someone who waited for the right one to come along and then finds out his walk with the Lord is not as strong as she thought it was? Sometimes I wonder if he really has a personal growing walk with God. How does one overcome the disillusionment? Advice: I hear your pain. I've... >Read More

Tags: advice, biblical model, growing in your faith, healthy marriage, LIFE, marriage, praying for spouse, sex and love, spiritual growth, spiritual mismatched, Women

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How can I be a spiritual helpmate to my unsaved husband? He says he believes in God, and that Christ died for his sins. He even participates in Biblical conversations with my saved family. But when he's with unsaved friends, he jokes about hell and how he's going there. He doesn't see anything wrong with sex in movies, doesn't attend church... >Read More

Tags: advice, biblical model, Dr. Muriel Larson, healthy marriage, husbands, improving your marriage, intimacy, LIFE, marriage, sex and love, spiritual intimacy, wives, Women

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I am very troubled by the lack of relationship my husband has with God, and how that impacts our marriage. We have been married a year and a half. I became a born-again Christian at the beginning of '98. My concern is that there are so many biblical references/inferences to the husband being the spiritual leader of the household,... >Read More

Tags: advice, biblical model, dealing with differences, healthy marriage, LIFE, marriage, sex and love, spiritually mismatched, wives, Women

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