12 Choices for an Extraordinary Marriage (Part One)
The first year of marriage doesn’t have to be hard. Learn about some intentional choices that can make your marriage extraordinary in Part 1 of this two-part post by Kristen Hogrefe.
Praying Psalm 1 for Your Husband
LORD, I thank You for my husband. Thank You for creating him in Your image, designing him for greatness and strength. I pray that my husband will be like a great tree planted by streams of water, its branches reaching up to the sky. May my husband be a mighty Read more…
Christmas Prayers
Thank You, LORD, for the awesome message of Christmas: You stoop down to make us great. (Psalm 18:35, NIV) How incredible! This is precisely what You did through the stunning miracle of the Incarnation. You stooped down beneath the stars, beneath a low stable door, entering our world to enter our lives. Read more…
Top 10 Tips for Marriage [with graphic]
What are your best marriage tips? I recently listed my top 10 tips for marriage here: 10 Simple-but-Powerful Ways to Build Your Marriage. The article explains each tip, but this chart gives a summary of the ten points: Read more…
Vicki Rose on this week’s prayer call
Could you use some encouragement in your marriage? Do you know someone else who could? This Thursday, author Vicki Rose will be joining me on our weekly prayer call—and I am confident that God will use her to encourage everyone on the call. Vicki is the author of Every Reason to Read more…
Something New Today …
I am trying something new today. I would like to share with you a presentation called “Battle Strategies in Prayer: How to Fight on Your Knees.” In this slide-show, I discuss several aspects of effective prayer. These are spiritual principles that we can learn from Old Testament battle accounts. May God bless you Read more…
“Her” Prayer
Last week, I shared with you a husband’s prayer. Today I want to share with you a wife’s prayer, based on Scripture. May God honor your prayers as you honor Him. I thank You, LORD, for my husband and for Your awesome design in creating him; thank You for shaping him Read more…
Fighting for Your Marriage … on Your Knees (Part 1)
“LORD, I lift this marriage to You. I ask You to put Your hedge of protection around this marriage and to thwart every enemy scheme against it. ‘Catch for us the little foxes’ that would eat away at this relationship–the little foxes of busyness and the little foxes of unresolved hurt Read more…
