How do you prevent communication breakdown in a relationship? Communication in marriage – even a Christian marriage – can be tricky? As I counsel and mentor wives, I hear this listed as the biggest struggle in their marriage 90% of the time. Hands down, wives doing marriage God’s way long to improve communication. So today […]
Tag: Take Every Thought Captive
Spiritual Warfare begins in your mind. It is critical that you learn to take every thought captive in the battle for your mind.
11 Steps to Start Overcoming Pornography Biblically for Life
Have you been fighting the battle of Overcoming Pornography? It’s a battle that feels uphill and dotted with land mines all with the purpose of sucking you back into the pit. Thankfully in this modern technological world that tempts us to sin we also find tools and resources to help with overcoming pornography. Who Needs […]
6 Tips to Renew a Thriving Empty Nest Marriage
How do you prepare for empty nest syndrome? What effect will becoming an empty nester have on your marriage? I’ve heard countless stories of couples who just barely survive their marriage long enough to see the kids grow up and leave the nest. Many marriages end between year 20 and 25. Raise your hand if […]
How to Improve Communication in a Christian Marriage: Guard
How can I fix communication in my marriage? This is one of the first questions I am asked by countless Christian women looking for practical help to fix a Marriage. It doesn’t take much to cause communication problems in a relationship. The answer is not a quick fix communication tool, it is a systematic approach that […]
How to Improve Communication in a Christian Marriage: Change
Change is such a hard thing. When things change around me I get anxious and resist. If God begins to challenge me about an area of my life He wants to change I will argue and deflect. So I hesitated to call this session change but it is what has to follow understand. When we understand the […]
How To Improve Communication in a Christian Marriage: Understand
We can agree that we want good communication in our Marriage right?!?!? We want to communicate lovingly, effectively and honestly in a Christian marriage. But improving communication depends on the way we understand communication and all too often we skip that step. Today we are taking a pit stop at the intersection of words and […]
How To Effectively Communicate in a Christian Marriage
When did you first realize you would have to work on Communication in a Christian Marriage? Do you remember that moment? The moment you understood that to effectively communicate in this Marriage it would take time, practice, a different strategy and maybe a lot of help from God above. It took years to understand what […]
How to Fight the Lies of the Enemy: I Am Fat and Ugly
What comes to mind when you hear the word beautiful? I imagine a field of wild flowers, my girls running wide armed through them with carefree abandon. Beautiful. Do you believe you are beautiful? Or have you believed the lies the enemy whispers as you stand in the mirror. Fat. Ugly. Unlovable. Our enemy loves to […]
3 Easy Ways to Fight The Enemy For Freedom in Our Thoughts
This is a War Y’all. We are fighting a seasoned enemy. That snake is practiced and rehearsed and has more experience than all of us combined. But I believe Freedom in our Thoughts is not only possible – but Critical. We must fight the enemy! Last month we talked about the 3 Urgent Reasons to […]
How to Fight the Enemy for Purity in Thought
Can you remember the last commercial you saw? There’s this one with a Victoria Secret model on a beach… selling car insurance. What?!?!?! Where is the connection there?!?!?!? Our culture uses sex to sell almost everything. The TV is filled with half-naked bodies; even the billboards flash nudity and sexuality as I drive to the […]
