Tomorrow Bethlie Joy and I celebrate 30 years of marriage. Last night we laughed at how fast the time has flown! And it really has. This morning I spend some time thinking about how we got here! We are in love. I joke that we are trying to set the world record for the longest…
A few days ago I introduced this series of articles. You can read the introduction here. REVIEW Congratulations on spending a week investing in one of your most prized possessions: your marriage! Spend some time today thinking through the truths highlighted in Ephesians. Wouldn’t you agree that any of us can improve? Remember that God Himself…
A few days ago I introduced this series of articles. You can read the introduction here. INTIMACY Read Ephesians 5:15-33 Key verse: 31 The subject of intimacy is yet another vital matter in a marriage relationship. It includes everything from closeness to loyalty to romance to sexuality! It is incredible important and yet often overlooked. This…
A few days ago I introduced this series of articles. You can read the introduction here. CLOSENESS Read Ephesians 5:15-33. Key verse: 31 One of the saddest parts of our “fast-paced, never-stopping, world-of-instant-everything is that we have lost the ability to be close. Or so it seems! It is increasingly difficult to have conversations without a…
A few days ago I introduced this series of articles. You can read the introduction here. LOVE Read Ephesians 5:15-33 No study of marriage can be complete without a study of the word love. “Husbands, love your wives” is the most basic command God gives to men in the marriage relationship. The lessons here are some…
A few days ago I introduced this series of articles. You can read the introduction here. SUBMISSION Read Ephesians 5:15-33 Submission is one of the important words in this passage concerning marriage. In fact, it is the theme of the section that begins in verse twenty one and it includes three different sections. Submission is one…
A few days ago I introduced this series of articles. You can read the introduction here. Today let’s talk about the help we need to accomplish the task before us! SPIRIT-FILLING Read Ephesians 5:15-33 The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit is an on-going part of the book of Ephesians. He seals the believer (1:13); He makes…
If you want to have a better marriage, start with your own spiritual life.
A marriage is a wonderful, powerful, and beautiful relationship! Strangely enough, it is also a rather fragile one. It seems that the attack on the institution of marriage is greater than it has ever been. Hollywood makes millions by ridiculing marriages and glorifying everything from pre-marital sexual relations to divorce to adultery. The gay agenda…
This week Bethlie and I celebrated our 25th anniversary. We have walked together through many stages of life. Friendship, courtship, and dating (“Dourting” if you put the last two together, according to one my friends!). Marriage. Newly-weds. Pregnancy and new born babies. Toddlers. Children. Teens and College kids. Successes and failures. Mountaintops and valleys. And now…
Pastor/Evangelist Dave Young 