Conflict and Challenges
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Weekend Devotion-Resolving Conflict (Part 2)
Welcome to week two of a three part series from Purpose Driven Life, Daily Devotional about resolving conflicts with your spouse. Have a blessed weekend and enjoy your spouse! Praying and believing, Dineen How to Resolve Conflict with Your Spouse (Part 2) by Rick Warren If you’re going to pull together when you’re pulled apart,…
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Weekend Devotion – Resolving Conflict
For the next three weekends, Lynn and I would like to share a series provided by Purpose Driven Life, Daily Devotional about resolving conflicts with your spouse. Have a blessed weekend and enjoy your spouse! Praying and believing, Dineen How to Resolve Conflict with Your Spouse (Part 1) by Rick Warren You quarrel and fight.…
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Ready to Graduate
I want to graduate from the unequally yoked club. I bet you do to. In January of this year, God had me write something important down. He gave me a specific word about my future. Part of what he said was, “this is the year I will do great things in your life.” Now I…
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Answer the Call
6And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, 7in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. 8For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and…
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Chronicles of ….
Conditional? OR Unconditional?Last Monday everyone had a chance to vote. Wow, many of you did. You also added your wisdom to this discussion and backed it up with scripture. I am blessed to know each of you who voted. Also, thank you for adding your thoughts and scripture verses. The question of debate: Is God’s Love Conditional…
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Hit Again
Last Friday as I was driving home with my daughter in typical California rush hour traffic, I got rear-ended. Again. Two years ago we traded in my gas guzzling car for a nice, shiny red Honda Civic. I picked up my daughter from school one day and got rear-ended by the poor 17-year-old in the…
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The Chain of Effectiveness
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love. For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective…
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The Great Hope Maker
And now part two…see you next week! Last week, I posted about enduring hope. At the end of the article, I included this verse as part of a prayer. “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the…
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The Most Dangerous Prayer
Hi friends! I’m still traveling! Here’s a post I wrote in November of 2007 that is still so relevant. 🙂
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A Death In The Family
This week I received an email from a very close friend. She has been a reader here at Spiritually Unequal Marriage for some time now. I have grown to love her and her family deeply. This week my sister in the Lord wrote me to tell me of a death in her family. Reeling in…
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Life…Interrupted
Hi friends! I’m on the road traveling, and life is full of interruptions at the moment. Just wanted to share this post I wrote in May of 2007 with you again. 🙂 So often we think we have things under control. Life is going along fine. Then it happens, that one thing you never expected.…
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The Judgment of Others
I spoke with a friend at church Sunday who is also unequally yoked, and she brought up an issue I think we all run into at one point or another. As unequally yoked spouses, what can we do to cross the faith barrier to connect with our unbelieving spouses? And in so doing, how do…
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Would you Change Churches?
I have spending a significant amount of time thinking about church. I am one of the thousands of spouses who pray in hope that my husband will want to attend church. In our early years, of course, this prayer was completely self-centered. I wanted my man to become a Christian because my life would be…
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When Our World Shakes
Our human nature makes us naturally resistant to change. And we tend to view any kind of shake up with a negative eye. It makes sense…naturally. So how do we shift our viewpoint from the natural to the eternal when God is shaking up our lives? If we’re to believe God is sovereign and nothing…
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Unified by Circumstances
I had the wonderful opportunity to speak and share with a group of ladies Monday evening as part of the Daughters of Sarah ministry at Riverslake Church in Bakersfield, CA. We all share a common bond-being unequally yoked. Again, I’m amazed at how just knowing we’re not alone can minister to the ache in our…
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Letting Go…Again
I did it again. I took back something I had given over to God. And it took losing my peace, joy, and confidence to realize it. I don’t like getting angry at God, and I can think of only one other time I’ve been angry with him. Now I can count two times, unfortunately. So…
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What’s In Your Camp?
This scripture started it all: Deuteronomy 23:14 For the LORD your God moves about in your camp to protect you and to deliver your enemies to you. Your camp must be holy, so that he will not see among you anything indecent and turn away from you. If you remember I began this journey back…
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The Third Attitude of Waiting
The last two weeks I’ve talked about the significance of waiting in our spiritual lives. Click here to read part one. Click here to read part two. Today I’ll continue with the final attitude of waiting. Waiting Expectantly. We all inevitably have times of waiting for God to move. Through time and trial, we learn…
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Weekend Devotion – Are You Esther?
For if you remain silent at this time, relief and deliverance for the Jews will arise from another place, but you and your father’s family will perish. And who knows but that you have come to royal position for such a time as this?” – Esther 4:14 (NIV) Against opposing odds, Esther met the call…
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The Second Attitude of Waiting
Last week I talked about the significance of waiting in our spiritual lives. Click here if you’d like to read that post. This week I want to explore the next attitude of waiting. Waiting Patiently. Our natural tendency leans toward a continuous sense of movement. When we feel our progress stalling, we grow agitated and…
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The Attitudes of Waiting
How much time in a day do you spend waiting for something? We wait in car lines to pick up our kids. We wait in line to pay for our groceries. We wait for our food to arrive at a restaurant. On a spiritual level, I’m beginning to think we spend a lot of time…