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"He answered, "Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, and said, 'Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh?' So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let no man seperate." - Matthew 19:4-6 - ESV I remember growing up as a young boy in the 1980s and how I got my image of life from three sources: my parents, my churc

"For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother, and they shall be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh." - Genesis 2:24, NASB1995 Genesis 2:18 states, "Then the LORD God said, 'It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him" (NASB 1995). We then see the account of how God fashioned woman from the rib of the first man. From the Hebrew text, the word translated in our English "helper," or "help mate," comes from

"Wives, be subject to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives and do not be embittered against them." - Colossians 3;18-19 - NASB 1995 A few years ago, Lori and I were in a tough spot in our marriage of just over 12 years. We weren't at the point of divorce or seperation, in fact, those things would have never happened. We would have simply decided to endure a marriage with lots of difficulties and problems we could not resolve and just go through

"Then the LORD God said, 'It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper suitable for him.'...So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and he slept; then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place. The LORD God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man, and brought her to the man. The man said, 'This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called woman because she was taken out of m

Through our many years in marriage, Lori and I have realized that there are not a lot of ministries focused on marriage in churches....