Category: Devotion

• What to Do When You Love Your Children More than Your Spouse

  

  Most days around here, I talk about my marriage rather than about my three young adult sons who matter monumentally to my life and family. But, make no mistake! Being a mom has been my highest calling and greatest joy. I can still remember the day each of my sons were born like it was […]

  BethSteffaniak

  November 15, 2020

  About Me, Accountability, Affection, Balance, Bible Study, Bible Study Tools, Boundaries, Christ-Centered, Codependency, Connection, Counseling, Desires, Devotion, Discouragement, Encouragement, Love, Love for God, Love of God, Marriage, Messy Mom’s and Dad’s, Motherhood, Out of Balance Series, Parenthood, Priorities, Quality Time, Spiritual Practices, Togetherness, Unity

  Affection, Connection, Devotion, Family, Idolatry, Idols, Love, Motherhood, parent, Parenting, Priorities

• How to Improve the Connection in Your Marriage

  

  A good connection and closeness in marriage is always the desired goal, right? But in this time of an unrelenting quarantine, connection and closeness can sometimes feel less like holding hands and more like hand-cuffs! 😉 We have little to no time to pull away and experience other connections that help to fuel our desire to […]

  BethSteffaniak

  April 19, 2020

  About Me, Affection, Affirmation, Alienation, Bible Study, Bonding, Boundaries, Choices, Christ-Centered, Commitment, Communication, Confession, Connection, Connection Inventory, Connection Toolkit, Conversation, Dates with Mates, Devotion, Discouragement, Encouragement, Faith in God, Forgiveness, Insight for 2020 Series, Intimacy, Love, Love for God, Love of God, Marriage, Marriage Spark, Oneness, Openness, Positive Focus, Prayer, Priorities, Resentments, Romance, Selfishness, Sex & Sexuality, Spiritual Mismatch, Spiritual Practices, Togetherness, Unity, Vulnerability, Withdrawal

  Affection, Affirmation, Bible, Connection, Intimacy, Inventory, Marriage, Oneness, Prayer, Scripture, Sex, Togetherness, Unity

• How to Understand Emotional Differences in Marriage Using the Bible

  

  As women, God made us special. We are uniquely designed with different emotional makeup than a man. Why do you think God made a woman for Adam instead of creating another Adam for Adam? He created a woman for Adam because Adam needed something different than himself. Men and women are different because God made […]

  BethSteffaniak

  March 23, 2020

  Acceptance, Christ-Centered, Commitment, Connection, Devotion, Differences, Emotions, Encouragement, Gender Differences, Marriage, Marriage Roles, Oneness, Personality, Positive Focus, Submission, Support

  Difference, Emotional Differences, Gender Difference, God’s Design, Marriage, Personality, Submission, Unity

• Find Out How to Improve Faithfulness in Your Marriage

  

  Anyone whose marriage has been rocked by an affair certainly knows the monumental need for faithfulness. But there are a lot of ways we can be faithful (or unfaithful) to our mates other than sexually. Though that’s certainly a foundational way! I’ll be broadening the idea of unfaithfulness to any way that we show devotion, […]

  BethSteffaniak

  February 16, 2020

  About Me, Affairs, Alienation, Anger, Attraction, Betrayal, Bible Study, Bonding, Boundaries, Change, Christ-Centered, Commitment, Conflict, Connection, Desires, Devotion, Discouragement, Encouragement, Faith in God, Faithfulness Inventory, Infatuation, Insight for 2020 Series, Intimacy, Love, Lust, Marriage, Negative Self-Talk, Perseverance, Positive Focus, Prayer, Priorities, Resentments, Self-awareness, Self-Reflection, Selfishness, Sex & Sexuality, Spiritual Growth, Spiritual Practices, Truth, Withdrawal

  Affair, Affection, Attention, Conflict, Connection, Devotion, Faithful, Faithfulness, Persevere, Priorities, Sex, Troubles