Marriage

Authentic Christian Living on February 18th, 2011

If you have a spouse that goes above and beyond for your family, share this video. One couple shares how they are able to make TIME for family while both parents working full-time jobs. Making time isnt easy, but when you make a deliberate effort it can be the simple things that really matter. What [...]

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Authentic Christian Living on February 14th, 2011

Gary Chapman explains the five love languages. We are huge fans of the five love languages. It has helped us and millions of others at home, in our relationships with our brothers and sisters, how we relate to our children and even at work. Not all people feel love from the same things. These videos [...]

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Authentic Christian Living on August 11th, 2010

Wait for the man who pursues you – the one who will make an ordinary moment seem magical – the kind of man who brings out the best in you and makes you want to be a better woman. Wait for the man who will be your best friend, the one who will drop everything [...]

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Authentic Christian Living on July 11th, 2010

What does “I love you” mean? Is love a feeling? God doesn’t ask us if we feel like loving. He tells us it’s our responsibility to love-a husband is to love his wife (Eph. 5:28). When we obey, the feeling will follow. But if it doesn’t, God’s agapé love gives even when it gets nothing [...]

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Authentic Christian Living on May 26th, 2010

Want to know more about Mark Gungor? Mark has also been featured on national broadcasts such as Focus on the Family, Life Today and ABC News. His Better Marriage Minute radio program is heard on 250 radio stations nationwide and his daily internet radio talk show, The Mark Gungor Radio Show, debuted in the fall [...]

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Authentic Christian Living on May 21st, 2010

Christian men and women in the dating world are met with so much wrong thinking in their relationships. It’s my hope to help you identify certain destructive lies in your thinking before it is too late. LIE #1:  She’s flirting with me because she thinks I’m great. LIE #3:  Her lack of faith won’t pull [...]

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Authentic Christian Living on May 19th, 2010

Sitting across the table from my beautiful friend in the quaint coffee shop, my worry mounted. She was sharing details about her new whirlwind relationship that had begun a couple months earlier. “I finally met that guy I’ve been talking to on the Internet. After calling and text messaging constantly for the last two months, [...]

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Authentic Christian Living on May 2nd, 2010

What made all the difference for this couple was that Laura, in spite of the fact that her husband didn’t “deserve” it, decided to keep her battery charged with the never-depleted source of God’s love and to take personal responsibility for her thoughts, feelings, and actions — and she chose to forgive her husband. No [...]

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Authentic Christian Living on April 16th, 2010

Janet thought about divorce more than once even though her friends thought she was married to the greatest guy in the world. Was he secretly horrible behind closed doors? No. It’s just that Janet’s unfulfilled expectations and assumptions threatened the wonderful potential of their marriage. And all of us can struggle with those same challenges [...]

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Authentic Christian Living on April 5th, 2010

Our lives often appear boring or mundane compared to our friends. It is quite common to idealize the lives of others and falsely believe our lives are less. We peer into other’s lives and believe they are better off than we are. This tendency has been summed up by the cliche, “The grass is greener [...]

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