Respect

  • Marriage Devotion – Patty Tower

    Marriage Devotion – Patty Tower

    My spouse is worthy of praise & honor I read an article about a woman in church talking to a couple members about her husband, and everything she spoke out of her mouth regarding her husband was negative. The members began to think negatively about her husband and the character of the man she married.…

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  • My Husband Changed After I Said This

    My Husband Changed After I Said This

    From our archives, articles which remain relevant for the spiritually mismatched marriage. This post is part III in this series. Click on Part I and Part II to read the precursors to this article. This was originally posted on April 20, 2012. ***** Unequally Yoked and the Atheist Blogs   A few months ago I was emailing…

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  • Life Is Too Short to Live Any Way but Happy! By Lori Lyn Skipper

    Life Is Too Short to Live Any Way but Happy! By Lori Lyn Skipper

    Welcome back to the adventures of Lori Lyn Skipper. My son, Brad, and I made it just fine after his dad left us because we had God on our side. Yes, there were definite struggles, but I had such a peace about me, Philippians 4:7 NLT: Then you will experience God's peace, which exceeds anything…

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  • Reaction Mode

    Reaction Mode

    Dear friends, the following is a post I did a few years back. The Holy Spirit has continually reminded me of this post the last week or so, but I wasn't sure if it was a needed subject at the moment. Then on Thursday as I was working on the registration details for the Hope…

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  • How Did (and Do) We Honor Our Husbands?

    How Did (and Do) We Honor Our Husbands?

    SUM family, are you enjoying this walk down memory lane? It’s amazing to look back over our history and see how God has moved in the big picture of our community. I truly believe part of our continued growth and endurance as a ministry has been our desire to honor our husbands in doing this. …

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  • Submission – The Books of Peter

    Submission – The Books of Peter

    Wives, in the same way submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, if any of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives. 3 Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such…

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  • A Testimony by SUMite Holly Boone

    A Testimony by SUMite Holly Boone

    Dear friends, Holly Boone (a different Holly from the one I shared about in my last post) shared this with me in an email and I asked if I could share it with our community. I pray it blesses you as it did me. I remember being in a similar place in my marriage years…

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  • I’m Pissed Off!!!

    I’m Pissed Off!!!

    Can I say that on a Christian blog? Well, at least it's a righteous anger….. Read with me and then share with me your thoughts. Hugs, Lynn Believing Wife – Agnostic Husband (names have been omitted for privacy)  Earlier in the week, Dineen and I received an email from a reader who was seeking some…

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  • Reader Question: How Do I Respect Him

    Reader Question: How Do I Respect Him

    Today I'm tackling another reader question: Lynn, Hi there, thanks so much for getting back to me.  I am worried because I feel that my marriage is more than just spiritually mismatched–it's all around mismatched.  Somehow, during a period of rebellion apparently, I got myself into a marriage with a man whose core values I…

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  • Weekend Worship – A Story of God’s Faithfulness

    Weekend Worship – A Story of God’s Faithfulness

    Mr. and Mrs. Keith Silva I call on you, my God, for you will answer me; turn your ear to me and hear my prayer. – Psalm 17:6 My friends, this is a special day for me and my family. It's my oldest daughter's wedding day. For me it's also a testimony to God's faithfulness.…

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  • Spiritual Leadership

    Spiritual Leadership

    When I’m speaking or interviewed for radio, spiritual leadership of our home, often comes up as a topic for conversation. It’s really interesting to me that this question comes to me from other believing men (radio interviews) as well as women who are living unequally yoked. My friends, we the spiritually mismatched, certainly live in…

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  • What Does Respect Really Mean?

    What Does Respect Really Mean?

    At church one Sunday, a friend who is also mismatched asked me about how to handle a situation that she either went behind her husband’s back to do what she thought was right in fulfilling a law or being up front and asking for his input and leadership with the understanding that he may well…

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