Category: Trust
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How to Find Rest that Improves Your Life and Relationships
Have you caught up on the rest you’ve desperately needed during your community’s quarantines this past year? With all the hanging out in our homes and away from our friends and coworkers, you’d think we would just feel so rested and refueled. 😉 But, like everything else that’s happened in 2020, we’ve been left feeling…
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How Much Do You Trust God in Time of Crisis?
With a pandemic coming ever closer to our door, I felt like this was a perfect time to shift from a marriage focus to a spiritual one of trusting God more. Rest assured, our trust in God is a marriage issue! We are also much better parents and grandparents. 😉 Our confidence and hope in…
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Do You Need to Trust Your Spouse More?
I’m writing this post to help you gain insight into how wise you’re being and how well you’re doing on trusting your spouse. It’s always necessary to have certain boundaries and biblical principles in mind when granting trust, especially if your spouse has consistently acted in untrustworthy ways. Nowhere in Scripture does God expect you…
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Where Should a Christ-follower Stand in a Divisive World?
“Therefore, accept each other just as Christ has accepted you so that God will be given glory.” —Romans 15:7 These are powerful words from the Apostle Paul, aren’t they? But they surely do not reflect the state that our world is in! So, with that in mind … Where does the world stand? No one…
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5 Inspiring Examples of Perseverance in the Bible
I’m excited to have Landen Melton as my guest today—offering inspiration from the Bible on how we can persevere like Job, Jeremiah, Apostle Paul, the Persistent Widow and Jesus. What does the word perseverance mean to you? Perhaps you haven’t had to endure a lot of life’s ups and downs. Perseverance might not mean much to…
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Are You Really Enough? Find Out What God Says!
Have you heard the cheerful declaration—“You are enough!”—that’s often bandied about on the Internet and beyond? Oh, my goodness, I have! This idea is meant to encourage those who feel unworthy, raising them to a new and uplifted way of thinking about themselves. And I think it’s true, but only in part. We can’t necessarily…
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Join 21 Days of Love to Improve Your Marriage!
With the New Year upon us, it’s a great time to resolve to “love” our spouses and the Lord more! Even though it’s easy to let our resolutions slide as time goes on, there’s just something motivating about a fresh start. So if your marriage or life has grown stale, challenging or discouraging (or even…
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2 Devotionals Offering Encouragement and Relief
Today I want to point you to some encouragement and relief by sharing two devotionals I’ve recently written, which are featured at two inspirational Christian sites. The first devotional starts off by pointing you to see the unseen. An impossible sounding task, I know! But read on to find out how … I’m about to…
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The Unfair Task of Being Transparent in Marriage No Matter What
Ever struggle to be open and transparent to your mate about a mistake you’ve made or a troubling thought or feeling you’ve had? So you hide it or stuff it, and try to go on with life as usual. Where do we get the idea that this is ever a good thing? After all, the…
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The Unfair Task of Respecting Your Mate No Matter What
I think people often confuse respect and trust. Why do I say that? Because I hear people, women in particular, saying their mates must earn their respect before they will show respect. I totally understand the challenge to treat with respect the mate who acts in a way that is not respectable. It certainly feels…
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