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Ron Hitchcock provides periodic thoughts on marriage.What is Relational Maturity?
An added benefit to using the LIMRI in premarital preparation and marriage enrichment is its ability to identify healthy relationship factors such as relational maturity. Relational maturity denotes one’s ability or willingness to connect on both...
The Two Enemies of Sacrificial Love
Individualism and self-reliance are perhaps the greatest threats to a home filled with sacrificial love. Individualism seeks what is best for the individual rather than the relationship. Self-reliance is a partner to individualism where personal advancement and...
Shared Identities of Men and Women before and after Marriage
In this blog I hope to demonstrate that a person’s spiritual identity before marriage is not reshaped but enriched through holy matrimony. The man and woman retain their spiritual identities as followers of Jesus and priests in God’s kingdom (1 Pet. 2:9)....