Marriage
Healthy marriages are a lifeblood to the church. They are the cradle from which family is born. They provide a vital witness of God’s love to the world around us. Yet, healthy marriages often need communities of support and encouragement to thrive. These resources are intended to help marital and pre-marital couples.
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Roles, Responsibilities, & Decision Making In Marriage
In thinking about your role in marriage, consider the example Jesus provided from his life on earth. Society’s standards for marriage and for the roles and responsibilities of husbands and wives are ever-changing and often do not align with Scripture. This article, there are several areas to consider with your fiancé/spouse within the topic of Roles, Responsibilities, and Decision Making in Marriage.
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The Past's Impact on the Present Marriage: Emotion
The communication process is hard enough with just words. Add emotion to the mix and sometimes we might as well be speaking a foreign language. This is because the present moment meaning we attribute to emotions has been constructed in the past. Listen to this recent podcast to learn more.
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The Impact of Trauma in Marriage Webinar
Trauma, in big and small ways, can be an unwelcome guest in our marriage relationship. In this recorded webinar, Kaleb Beyer discusses how to identify the effects which trauma can have on a marriage relationship as well as some of the ways a couple can begin to move forward toward healing in these situations.
Featured WebinarTriangular Model of Love
How do you define love? Is it a feeling or a choice? Both? Love can be hard to describe and define because it has multiple facets and meanings. This video, taken from a webinar titled “Mentoring Young Couples”, teaches how several aspects of love interact for the purpose of helping you better understand love in marital relationships.
Communication
Your communication can determine the course of your marriage by strengthening or weakening it. Therefore, communication in a marriage relationship is a key component to your relationship. We have highlighted just two resources that are helpful in increasing your communication skills with one another. You can read more on the topic of communication in marriage in this article.
Conflict Resolution In Marriage
Do you have conflict in your marriage? This resource can help us identify ways to move through conflict in our marriages in a healthy way. Read MoreAffection, Love Languages, & Gender Differences
This resource covers three topics vital to a marriage relationship: affection, love languages, and gender differences. Learn More
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Healing From Sexual Betrayal
Sexual betrayal is one of the most painful relationship wound a marriage can endure. Sexual betrayal takes many forms: pornography, sex addictions and adultery are a few examples of the realities of sexual betrayal. This course is intended to provide support to wives who have endured this pain.
Enroll TodayEmotional Intelligence
Emotional Intelligence (EQ) is the aptitude a person has for identifying their emotions, regulating them and wisely acting in accordance to their purpose. Individuals with high EQ are more likely to have satisfying relationships. Fortunately, emotional intelligence is not fixed. Rather it can be cultivated and grown. This course attempts to do just that.
Enroll TodayLessons on Grief
Lessons on Grief provides community and discussion for those who have lost a loved one. Each of the eight lessons is centered on a theme often experienced by those who journey through grief. As a group walks through the lessons together, the content will facilitate a discussion to provide help, hope, and growth. These lessons are likely best-suited for participants who are still grieving but not necessarily in the initial phases of grief.
Enroll TodayKeys to a Healthy Marriage Bible Study
Marriage is often portrayed as a triangle with God at the top. As husband and wife individually draw closer to God, they will be drawn closer to each other. Our prayer is that this study would draw each couple closer to God and thereby closer to each other. This study can be purchased from the Apostolic Christian Book Store.
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For many couples, life events, stress, and transitions can distance marital relationships over time. In addition, familiarity with your spouse and complacency can lead you to take him or her for granted. Unless you are intentional, the health of your marriage will be left to the ebb and flow of life stressors and events. From time to time, it is beneficial to intentionally invest in the health of your marriage, identifying areas that need attention as well as rejoicing in the areas that are going well. ACCFS has developed a program for the sole purpose of growing your marital relationship. Click here for an outline of Nurturing a Great Marriage, an ACCFS marriage enrichment program.
The marriage relationship will naturally evolve and change over time. Couples can draw closer to each other and experience an even richer relationship or unfortunately, drift apart. Intentionality and regular reflection coupled with focusing on any needed repair can encourage marital health. The resources below can help a couple consider the state of their relationship.
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Scripture emphasizes marriage to be a metaphor of our relationship with Christ (2 Corinthians 11:2; Ephesians 5:22-33), and God desires for us to have vibrant marital relationships. Deepening our connection and bond with our spouse flows out of an abiding communion with each other. When securely connected to our spouse, we experience more peace, rest, and resilience to engage in life’s journeys.
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Marriage takes work as any marriage is a relationship between two imperfect people. Therefore, nearly every married couple has challenging times. For some, these struggles reach the point of profound discouragement, loneliness, and despair. Even marriages that are seemingly going well can suffer distress if a single shattering event, such as an extramarital affair, takes place. For others, the distress may be the result of an ongoing struggle a spouse may experience. Regardless, marital distress has a tremendous impact, often leading to intense anxiety, paralyzing fear, deep sadness, and a sense of hopelessness. Regular effort at connection, communication, forgiveness, and repair are needed to keep a marital relationship in a place of growth. You can see some resources intended to give hope in these difficult circumstances below.
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