Blessings of a Shared Spiritual Life
Married couples value faith and a shared spiritual life. These characteristics increase couple satisfaction.
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Thirty Days of Blessing Prayer Book
The staff members of the Marriage & Family Life Ministry of Vineyard Columbus pray that the words contained in 30 Days of Blessings will enrich your shared identity as a married couple. Your marriage is a vital witness of God’s great love to everyone around you. He has called you and your spouse into a “one flesh” relationship. We hope these prayers will help you to rejoice in the oneness God has available for couples like you, who choose to celebrate and grow your shared spiritual life. We encourage you to place this book in a convenient location where you will be reminded to pray one of these blessings over each other every day.
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New Year’s Resolutions For Couples
“I will protect and enrich my relationship by eliminating all potential secret keeping from my spouse.” There is an old saying, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” Married couples will benefit by building accountability into their relationships. Couples need to think about how they will achieve accountability. Take some time to think […]
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Who is Educating Couples?
Some people would say that churches are the primary educators of premarital and marriage relationships in their communities. However, most churches do not have marriage and family life departments. This trend limits educational opportunities to couples following an engagement. For many churches premarital education consists of three pastoral counseling sessions that include reading a marriage […]
read moreParenting Your Children Into Adulthood: Forming Lifelong Friendships With Your Adult Children
River Rafting In my opinion, the experiences of daily parenting responsibilities can be compared to a family rafting trip. The journey downriver begins the day your child comes home from the hospital, or with the first home visit of fostering or adoption. Most rivers have stretches of slow and fast-moving waters. While enjoying slow […]
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The Mutuality Quiz
In my last blog, No Such Thing as Secrets to Great Marriages, I said that marriage relationships have been researched extensively using qualitative and quantitative methods of obtaining data to identify trends among couples in specific age groups, seasons of life and cultural backgrounds. I believe that each relationship is unique and should be celebrated […]
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