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Love Does not Insist on Its Own Way
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Dave Peterson
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1 Corinthians 13:4-7, Philippians 2:3-4, Colossians 3:12-14, John 13:1-17, Luke 10:25-37, Genesis 37:50, 1 Peter 4:8
Once, while on vacation, on our way to church, Terri and I got into a disagreement over something. When I felt I was losing, to make my point, I stopped the car and got out. We were on a country road....
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Love Makes the Difference
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Tony Evans
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1 Peter 4:8, Genesis 29:, 1 Samuel 25:, Galatians 5:13-14, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, Colossians 3:12-14
I heard about a woman who married a very demanding, hard, and unloving man. Her husband made her existence miserable by presenting her with a list of his demands and expectations… The woman’s husband ...
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Act as if You Are in Love
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Anthony Campolo
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Matthew 19:4-6, Ecclesiastes 4:9-10, Isaiah 62:5, 1 Corinthians 7:2-5, Genesis 2:18, Ephesians 5:25, 1 Corinthians 13:4-5
I challenge those who come to me for marriage counseling this way: “If you do what I tell you to do for an entire month, I can promise you that by the end of the month, you will be in love with your m...
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Colossians 3:14, Acts 13:15, Romans 16:3-4, Acts 18:1-3, Amos 3:3, Ephesians 4:3
Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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Love and Loss in Queen Victoria
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The Pastor's Workshop
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The marriage of Queen Victoria and Albert (otherwise known as Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel — quite a mouthful!) was one for the ages. Their love and devotion to each other was remarkable, ...
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Happy Marriages
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John Gottman and Nan Silver
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Proverbs 31:11-12, Ephesians 5:25-28, Colossians 3:19, 1 Peter 3:7
Happy marriages are based on a deep friendship. By this I mean mutual respect for and enjoyment of each other’s company. These couples tend to know each other intimately—they are well versed in each o...
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A Romance for the Ages
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The Pastor's Workshop
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The marriage of Queen Victoria and Albert (otherwise known as Francis Albert Augustus Charles Emmanuel — quite a mouthful!) was one for the ages. Their love and devotion to each other was remarkable, ...
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I’ll Wash the Clothes Every Night!
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Gary Chapman
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- Love
- Marriage
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Ephesians 5:21, Philippians 2:3-4, Romans 12:10, John 13:1-17, John 13:14-15, Ruth 1:16
In his celebrated book The Five Love Languages, Gary Chapman tells a story about a husband and wife struggling to relate. When the husband asked his wife, “On a scale of zero to ten, how’s your love t...
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The Biblical Helper: Ezer
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John Mark Comer
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Genesis 2:18–25 , Exodus 17:8–13, Ecclesiastes 4:9–12, John 14:16–17 , Romans 16:1–4, Psalm 118:6–7
Adam was called by God to take care of Eden. But it was too much work for one man. Eden was massive. Adam was incapable of gardening the whole thing. He needed help. That’s why God created Eve. Go...
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Like an Old Coat
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John Ortberg
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Proverbs 18:22, Matthew 1:18-25, 1 Samuel 1:, Genesis 2:24, 1 Peter 4:8
On a little study table in my office, there’s a card with a quote from Victor Hugo’s epic novel Les Misérables: My coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt...
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1 Corinthians 13:, 1 Peter 4:8, Ephesians 4:2, 1 John 4:18, Proverbs 10:12
A true relationship is two unperfect people refusing to give up on each other.
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A Love that Will Not Let Me Go
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The Pastor's Workshop
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Genesis 29:15–30, Job 1:2, 19:25, Isaiah 54:4–10 , John 21:15–19, Romans 8:35–39, Psalm 34:18
George Matheson was just entering the bewildering teenage years when doctors informed him he was going blind. Undeterred, he pressed on with his education and graduated from the University of Glasgow ...
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Alexander Pope
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Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
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C. S. Lewis
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Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go... But, of course, ceasing to be "in love" need not mean ceasing to love. Love in this second sense — love ...
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Christopher West
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- Sex
- Marriage
Marital love is a reflection of how God loves. It is free, total, faithful and fruitful.
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George Eliot
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- Marriage
“What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life—to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all...
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God of Love and Mercy—Father, Son and
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Richard Herman
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John 16:33, 1 Timothy 2:1-2, James 5:14-15, 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, Romans 15:13, Philippians 4:13, Isaiah 40:31
God of Love and Mercy—Father, Son and Holy Spirit: As those beloved by You...You give us the privilege of loving others and praying for them ... as we do today. We pray on behalf of those for whom th...
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Jesus: You gave us Your love at a high
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Richard Herman
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1 Timothy 2:1-4, 2 Corinthians 5:18-20, Hebrews 13:20-21, Philippians 4:13, 2 Corinthians 5:20
Jesus: You gave us Your love at a high price – Your own death on the cross in our place! By Your grace you give us eternal life and entrust to us Your creation. Thank You, Lord! We come today as Y...
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D. H. Lawrence
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- Marriage
- Individualism
You can’t worship love and individuality in the same breath.
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Timothy Keller
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- Marriage
- Falling in Love
Within this Christian vision of marriage, here's what it means to fall in love. It is to look at another person and get a glimpse of what God is creating, and to say, I see who God is making you, ...
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Jesus–our Lord, Savior, Friend and
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Richard Herman
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1 Corinthians 13:4-7, Matthew 11:28-30, Isaiah 41:10, Ephesians 2:8-9, Psalm 23:1-2
Jesus–our Lord, Savior, Friend and Companion: To be “in” You is to no longer be strangers to Your Father, or to one another. In You–we are brought near. In You–we are redeemed and forgiven. In You–we ...
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- Marriage
- Romantic Love
I wish for you good health in each other’s arms.
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Mignon McLaughlin
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- Marriage
- Falling in Love
A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
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G. K. Chesterton
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They have invented a phrase, a phrase that is a black and white contradiction in two words—“free-love”—as if a lover ever had been, or ever could be, free. It is the nature of love to bind itself, and...
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A Lifetime of Sacrifice
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Francis Chan
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Francis Chan tells the story of Domingo and Irene Garcia: He’s a mechanic. She’s a hairdresser. They have been foster parents to thirty-two children and have adopted sixteen. Domingo and Irene are in...
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Finding a Mate
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Helen Fisher
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Matthew 5:46-47, Romans 15:7, Galatians 3:28, 1 Peter 3:8, Colossians 3:11
Most men and women fall in love with individuals of the same ethnic, social, religious, educational and economic background, those of similar physical attractiveness, a comparable intelligence, simila...
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Ephesians 5:22-6:9 | The Mystery of Christ and the Church
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Bradley Long
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Ephesians 5:22-33, Ephesians 6:1-9
Context I had a Bible professor in college who liked to say, “All Scripture is cultural!” He didn’t mean that the truth of who God is changes in different cultures. What he meant was that our God ch...
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What is Marriage For?
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John Mark Comer
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One day we were out running errands. The radio in my car was playing in the background, and between songs there was an advertisement for an online dating service. The spokesman-doctor-expert guy was d...
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Scripture Guide, Ephesians 5:22-6:9
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Bradley Long
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Ephesians 5:22-33, Ephesians 6:1-9
Context I had a Bible professor in college who liked to say, “All Scripture is cultural!” He didn’t mean that the truth of who God is changes in different cultures. What he meant was that our God ch...
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Life Isn’t Fair
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Gillian Marchenko
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- Marriage
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Matthew 20:13-16
In this excerpt from Gillian Marchenko’s memoir on her battle with depression, Still Life , her husband, a pastor named Sergei describes the reality that both life, and marriage, are often not as...