Encouragement
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A Divine Appointment
I’ve been on a quest. What kind of quest, do you ask? A quest to understand how to listen to God better. To hear Him more clearly. I don’t want to miss a thing He has to tell me. Hearing God is not something that comes easily. (And please understand I'm using the word "hear"…
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You Make a Difference
While I was with Lynn this past weekend, we talked about where our hubbies were at spiritually. I know you can relate to this discussion. Do they really see Jesus in us? Do they have any idea of how much we pour of our love and selves into these guys of ours? I will be…
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Blessing or Burden?
One of the features of Kindle is it allows you to see what other people are highlighting in the same books you are reading. I hit upon this feature when I was preparing the speech for a MOPS group and was using our book to develop a speaking point. In chapter 5 (Believe Your Marriage…
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Marriage Monday – Couples in Faith
It's Marriage Monday. Please join us once again for Marriage Monday on May 2, 2011. Our group topic this time is “faith.” How does your Christian faith express itself between you and your spouse? Do you pray together? Or discuss theology? Do you lead or attend a couples Bible study? Perhaps you’re spiritually unequal, yet…
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The Intentional Marriage – Confrontation
Welcome to our video broadcast of The Intentional Marriage. Have your Bible handy because we’ll be looking at Luke 12:11-12 as we explore how to speak the truth in love using prayer and preparation.
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Who Do You Trust?
A terrific storm came up suddenly on the lake. Water poured in, and they were about to capsize. They woke Jesus: "Master, Master, we're going to drown!" Getting to his feet, he told the wind, "Silence!" and the waves, "Quiet down!" They did it. The lake became smooth as glass. Then he said to his…
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Weekend Devo – Precious Moments
Yesterday I attended the funeral of a friend's husband. He'd lived a full life, knowing his place in this world and especially his place in God's Kingdom. He'd lived for Jesus and impacted the lives of many. What I loved most about this service was the stories shared about this man's life. Hearing them reminded…
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Prince Charming Is…. The Average Joe
Good Morning Everyone. Today’s post is just for the ladies. Sorry guys but if you read on I hope you feel affirmed. Girls, yesterday I was listening to a radio program where the host was interviewing an author of a book titled, Average Joe. This interview brought into sharp focus some facts that we, as…
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In Community
The significance of community has truly become more and more apparent to me as I walk this journey in a mismatched marriage and have the pleasure of interacting with you, our readers, here, on our Facebook page and on our 1Peter3Living Yahoo group. The very first group I ever joined was in Europe at my…
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Message in a Wrapper
You know, God really does have a sense of humor. The last couple weeks have been fraught with issues in the Miller home. Nothing life threatening. Just financially exhausting. First our cat winds up needing some costly vet visits thanks to some unknown creature that bit his tail. As I started to write this our…
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Revealing the Lie
One of the things we talk about in our book is walking out of the guilt and shame of our pasts. Whether you knowingly married an unbeliever or came to faith after you married, God has a plan for your marriage. But if you’re still carrying around guilt over how you wound up in your…
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Submit To Your Husband. You Win in the End
Submit to your husband. Why is it, this very short sentence makes my emotions bristle? For far too many years the teachings from Ephesians 5:22 have been misunderstood and misrepresented. So let’s have some real and honest talk about God’s intention of this passage and let’s take it a step further. Can you submit to…
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The Sacrifice of Prayer
Every time I read about Christ praying in the Garden of Gethsmane, I stop at the part where he’s praying so earnestly, “his sweat was like drops of blood falling down to the ground” (Luke 22:44). In researching this further, I found out there is actually a condition called hematidrosis (sounds like something from House,…
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The Power of a Three-Stranded Cord in an Unequal Marriage
The Power of a Three-Stranded Cord in an Unequal Marriage . . . a three-stranded cord is not easily broken. (Ecclesiastes 4:12, CJB) In the verses prior to this, Solomon is speaking of how two are better than one because if one falls the other can help them up. They can keep one another warm…
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The Funny Thing About Losing Your Life
During my quiet time the other morning, I sat there reflecting on the direction God has taken my life. What sparked my examination was another reference to the movie Chariots of Fire about Olympic runner Eric Liddell. I know…this movie and story gets referenced a lot but this time it wasn't his choice not to…
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Our Greatest Weapon-Prayer
At church Sunday, a friend of mine stood up with her husband and shared their testimony of how God saved their marriage ten years ago. I’ve only been at this church for about nine years so I had no idea this was the case. This couple has been an inspiration to me, especially my friend.…
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One Little Step and Then……
I listen as she wept softly. I spoke to this young wife on the phone recently. She found herself in a place she never imagined could happen to her. Like so many of us, her husband lost his business because of the economy and they are in a financial meltdown. They moved to a new…
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Be All You Can Be
I’ve been harboring a lie and I didn’t know it. Last Friday I sat during my quiet time, praising God for the amazing ways He’s using this ministry, and Lynn and I, to reach out and help others in spiritually mismatched marriages. I will tell you I was so overcome with gratitude that God was…
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The Intentional Marriage – A Look at 1Peter 3:1-5
In case you didn’t get to watch our live broadcast, here’s the recording of The Intentional Marriage show from yesterday. I will warn you that I got a little emotional, but in a good way! LOL! But I did. God is filling my heart with so much new stuff right now, I can’t even put…
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Surviving to Thriving
I’m sure by now you’re tired of hearing about Valentines Day. I hope the day was special for you, even if you and God were the only two celebrating it. A dear lady I’ve come to know on Facebook called God her “sweetie.” I thought that was so precious. And I will share that two…
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10 Valentines Day Ideas to Rock His World
I hope you all are having as much fun with our husband-to-boyfriend theme as Lynn and I are. We put our heads together and created a list of 10 ideas (you know how we love lists of 10!) to WOW your spouse on Monday. Many of these turned out to really bless our hubbies and…