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Angie Lewis counsels, advises, and encourages couples in marriage. She works with couples from all over the world and gives solid, concrete, godly advice for healing and restoring marriage. Because Angie loves what she does and feels it is her calling, she offers free online marital advice, guidance and encouragement through email. Angie writes a weekly marriage column where she answers tough and sometimes controversial questions from readers. She also writes a marriage newsletter ... [More]

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  • Why Do Some People Make Foolish Choices? (Part 4 of 4)
    [News-and-Society:Religion] God wants us to go to the root of why we sin so we can eliminate it from our lives for good. We ought to be thankful to God that most of us can discern foolishness and folly and be aware of right and wrong, so we can finally ask for God's forgiveness and correct the wrong doing in our life.


  • Why Do Some People Make Foolish Choices? (Part 3 of 4)
    [News-and-Society:Religion] Is it true, once a fool always a fool? Absolutely not! Some of you may have grown up in homes that did not walk in the ways of the Lord, and because of that you are not sure of whom you are, or what your purpose in life is. But let me tell you this. God created you and he is your source for virtually everything under the sun. You can turn away from foolishness and accept Jesus Christ into your life.


  • Why Do Some People Make Foolish Choices? (Part 2 of 4)
    [News-and-Society:Religion] God lets us make our own choices in life. We can choose to follow Him and His wisdom-filled ways or we can choose to follow our own understanding of what we think is wisdom. Some of us will delightfully discover that our own understanding is not conducive to a faithful, righteous Christian lifestyle. This new discovery will help us to walk with Him and continue to grow and mature in the Word.


  • Why Do Some People Make Foolish Choices? (Part 1 of 4)
    [News-and-Society:Religion] Have you made some unwise choices in your life? Everyone does foolish things from time to time, but why do some people remain in foolishness? It is because they have not outgrown silly wayward patterns and habits and grown spiritually in the Lord.


  • Meeting Each Other's Emotional Needs
    [Relationships:Marriage] How can couples meet each other's emotional needs better? How can couples prevent emotional infidelities from happening in their marriage? When two people become bonded through marriage they depend on one another for their emotional needs getting met. But what happens later on down the road? Let's take a look.


  • Marriage - I Don't Love You Anymore
    [Relationships:Marriage] If you want to save your marriage you have to "be committed"! You have to "show your love" through your commitment. It doesn't matter how you feel about each other as much as what you are going to do to stay married. You can live an uncommitted lifestyle for your marriage or you can take responsibility for "your part in the marriage" and be happy with what God has blessed you with. It's all up to you. You make your own happiness!


  • How to Influence Your Wife Spiritually
    [Relationships:Marriage] A Christian husband should be patient and understanding with his wife when it comes to expecting her to submit to his spiritual direction. Be gentle and kind with her always, never be controlling and bossy with her because this is not what loving your wife properly is all about. Love her with your gentle spirit.


  • Confusion of Spiritual Headship and Submission
    [Relationships:Marriage] Christian roles for marriage have become perverted. True or false? Immoral Christian culture has taken hold of Christian society. True or false? Feminism has turned a wife's responsibility in marriage upside down. True or false?


  • Restoring Marriage When Only One Spouse is Willing
    [Relationships:Marriage] Stop everything you're doing and write down these principled ways for reconnecting and restoring the broken bonds with your spouse. Apply each of these principles every day until you have completed them all. Don't worry about what your spouse will say or do, just do these steps for yourself and for God.


  • Looking at a Woman Lustfully is Adultery
    [Self-Improvement:Addictions] Some people take porn addiction with a lackadaisical attitude. They believe that as long as they aren't involved in the physical act that it is not adultery. But looking at porn is adultery of the mind! Christ lets us know that even looking at a woman lustfully is adultery. Porn addiction hurts your relationship with God, which hurts your relationship with your wife.


  • Christian Roles of Husband and Wife
    [Relationships:Marriage] Do you know what roles and duties God has assigned you in your marriage? Why do you think God gave certain roles to the wife and certain roles to the husband? Together they compliment one another and work together in harmony. God created for husband and wife to share in the same goals but have different roles. God equips men and women for various tasks, but all of these tasks should lead to the same goal-honoring God. We honor God by following His commands for marriage.


  • Lose Weight Without Dieting, Diet Pills Or Medications
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Weight loss is all about lifestyle and eating habits. Does it feel like you eat very little, and watch your calorie intake, but still aren't losing weight? In fact you're gaining weight? That's because your metabolism is slow, you're not burning calories, and are eating the wrong foods.


  • How to Productively Release Anger
    [Self-Improvement:Anger-Management] Anger is a deep-seated emotion that can remain bottled up within a person for years, and maybe forever. Loving someone who has anger problems is often difficult to do. Living with an angry person is like an emotional roller coaster ride because you never know when they might explode. Does it seem like you're always walking on eggshells? Are you afraid to speak up because you might get yelled at and verbally abused, or worse hit?


  • Is the Sun Really Bad For You?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] The truth is in moderation the sun "on your skin" is VERY good for your health. Even fair skinned individuals can bask in the sun in moderate doses. There is too much media scare hype about how the sun causes skin cancer. Many things cause cancer when you abuse them.


  • How Do I Love My Alcoholic Spouse?
    [Self-Improvement:Addictions] You help the alcoholic best by pulling yourself away emotionally and that takes effort on your part, but you can do it. Love, support, and encourage the alcoholic when they are NOT drinking. Cut the ropes to the disease but love the person. Do not become trapped within the sickness of addiction anymore. You have to start rescuing you for a change and you can only do that by letting it go.


  • Five Wise Ways to Save Your Marriage
    [Relationships:Conflict] Don't think that remarriage is going to make you happy or solve your problems. That's not reality. The reality is you can pick up the pieces and resolve your martial problems and be a better marriage partner because of it.


  • How to Heal Disease With Food
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] A weak area of the body that many people share in is the digestive system. This area takes the brunt of abuse from bad habits and will become weak if we live a lifestyle that is detrimental to health. The intestines are where we absorb our nutrients back into the blood. We need nutrients to sustain the body and continue to repair and build new cells.


  • The Deceived Marriage - 6 Key Aspects For Rebuilding Trust
    [Relationships:Marriage] Did you know that trusting your spouse is one of the most important elements of marriage? Did you know that without the sacred bond of trust between a husband and a wife, the marriage will be unhappily discontented all the while it heads down the path to destruction? How can you live with someone day in and day out and not trust them? I think it is time we look at our selves, wouldn't you agree?


  • Marriage is Like a Business
    [Relationships:Marriage] A good business owner regards his employee with respect and consideration, and because of that, his employees treat him back with respect, and sometimes do more then is expected of them. This makes for a good business. In the same way, when we regard our spouse with consideration and respect, we get more from them, sometimes even more than we expected! Isn't that great?


  • Health Benefits of Avocados
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Avocados are an excellent source of monounsaturated fat (good fat), which is simply burned through regular physical activity. The fat of an avocado is very helpful to the body because it lowers cholesterol!


  • Husbands Instructed to Love Wife and Wife Instructed to Submit
    [Relationships:Marriage] If you want to have a happy marriage then don't treat your marriage like everyone else does. Love in society is not the same kind of love that Jesus taught! If a husband doesn't love his wife properly, in the ways taught by Christ, she in turn will not love (submit to) her husband. Societies view of love has turned marriage upside down. This is the basis for most, if not all, marriage problems. A Christian marriage must be managed with God at the forefront! We must go back to the teachings of Christ on what love is and then base our marriage on that kind of love.


  • Stop Being Abusive in Your Marriage and Be Assertive Instead
    [Relationships:Marriage] When we are frustrated, disappointed, stressed, or angry what happens? We use our emotions in negative ways with our spouse. This causes a chain reaction and they become abusive back. But this kind of interaction between married couples does not resolve anything, but only makes things worse!


  • Who Should Do a Colon Cleanse?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] The truth is the more we abuse our body the more likely we will need to clean it. We brush our teeth and we clean out our ears; we scrub our face and we clean out our noses; and we wash our hair until it shines, but we keep the intestinal tract dirty.


  • 5 Super Foods For a Healthy, Energetic Body
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Alfalfa sprouts are super foods. They are packed with life-giving nutrients. Alfalfa sprouts taste good in salads and sandwiches. Some sprouts such as the wheat berry sprout can be mixed with dried fruit, and because of their nutty flavor, make it a perfect nutritious, energy filled snack.


  • Save Your Marriage by Going to the Root of the Problem
    [Relationships:Marriage] There is so much written about "how to save a marriage" it can seem a bit overwhelming at times. The truth is no one can really save your marriage but you. Marriage gurus can throw out the breadcrumbs, but in the end it is all about you and your willingness to do what really needs to be done to save your marriage.


  • Natural Anti-Aging Products For Sensitive Skin
    [Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] It is very important that our skin has a chance to breathe and the ability to eliminate toxins. Caking our pores up with unnatural skin care products is very detrimental, not only to the skin but to the inside of our body as well. Anything you apply to your skin penetrates into the pores and into the bloodstream. Ask yourself, "Would I eat this?" If you answered no, then it probably is not a good idea to put it on your skin either.


  • Lose Weight by What You Eat
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Why do we gain weight? We gain weight because we are eating more calories than we burn. There really is a more simple way to lose weight than to "go on a diet." Dieting is no fun! Why deprive yourself of food or feel guilty for eating when you're hungry? That's not right! Reduced calorie diets don't work.


  • The Battle of the Fats and Oils
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Any oil that is in a processed food is not going to be good for you. Oils in packaged foods products such as pastries, pies, cookies, donuts, cakes and frozen foods are the worse oils for your health. Refined cooking oils such as vegetable and corn are not healthy oils to begin with, and when they are cooked at a high heat they become toxic to the body. If you have high cholesterol and clogged arteries it would be a good idea to stop cooking with these types of oils.


  • Irreconcilable Differences is the Hardened Heart
    [Relationships:Marriage] Irreconcilable differences are a bureaucratic term used in divorce proceedings describing a myriad of reasons why couples divorce. The state grants divorce for couples because of hardened hearts, which is the inability to reconcile differences. Actually everyone has the ability to reconcile differences with their spouse but selfishness stands in the way.


  • Reduce the Appearance of Skin Dimples and Varicose Veins
    [Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] I'm going to tell you about a healing and refining gel that reduces the appearance of skin dimples and varicose veins? Skin dimples are fat cells under the skin. Cellulite multiplies and worsens when we eat a poor diet and don't exercise. Even skinny people with high energy levels can have skin dimples if they don't eat a natural diet.


  • Diet Tips For Reducing Wrinkles and Looking Great
    [Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] If you're not eating that great now, don't fret too much over it. If you take away one unhealthy food a week and substitute it with a healthy food you will notice a difference in the way you look and feel within one month. Remember this tip for healthy eating. If it has been processed in any way by a factory then it is not healthy.


  • God Designed Marriage to Be Permanent
    [News-and-Society:Religion] God designed marriage to be permanent. He did not change His own law and allow for divorce! That is absolutely ridiculous. Moses changed the law because of people's hardened hearts! Back in Moses days, husbands were throwing their wives out into the streets where they were being raped, brutally beaten and sometimes killed.


  • Perimenopause and Black Cohosh
    [Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] The usual age of perimenopause is between 35 and 50. During this time hormones can become greatly imbalanced causing numerous symptoms. You may experience mood swings, hot flashes, irregular and heavy periods, sleep problems, vaginal dryness and bladder problems.


  • Health Food Hoaxes - Is Red Wine Really Good For You?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Red grapes are powerful nutritional boosters and are loaded with antioxidants that slow down the aging process when eaten with other antioxidant type foods and on a consistent basis. But is wine created from grapes good for you? Absolutely not!


  • Save Marriage - Appreciation, Respect, and Responsibility
    [Relationships:Marriage] Do you often feel smothered in your marriage? Do you feel that your spouse is always watching what you are doing? Does your spouse nag, complain and demand things of you and it's getting out of hand? Then this article is for you.


  • Health Food Hoaxes - Is Chocolate Really Good For You?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Since the amount of cocoa in a candy bar is so scant you would have to eat quite a lot of chocolate candy bars to receive any antioxidant effect from the cocoa. But by then imagine what all of those other ingredients are doing to your body? When the ingredients sugar, cocoa butter, hydrogenated oil, and milk are added with some cocoa it is then called chocolate.


  • Get Rid of Fat and Cellulite With Prickly Pear Cactus
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] What if I told you there was a supplement to get rid of fat without having to exercise? That you could eat a pepperoni pizza and the fat from the pepperoni would not absorb into your body causing fat and cellulite buildup? You would think I'm off my rocker, wouldn't you?


  • Herbs and Foods That Prevent Signs of Aging
    [Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] The best way to slow down the aging process is to feed your body well. The best super foods for looking younger than your age are sprouts, wheat grass, greens, seaweed, berries, red grapes, green tea, and most vegetables when eaten either raw or lightly steamed.


  • Pornography Addiction - Playing With Fire
    [Self-Improvement:Addictions] How does a woman captivate you with her eyes (body)? Your mind is allowing her to captivate you. And when she does all kinds of neat tricks to keep you looking she has caught you just like an animal hunts its prey. You have now become her prey each and every time you go back and view pornography. She (porn) now has control of your body and your mind and your spirit. You are being controlled by it.


  • Do the 'It Works' Health & Beauty Products Really Work?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Beauty] Because the 'It Works' beauty products are made from only natural ingredients, asking if they really work is like asking if eating a healthy diet really works? Anytime we take care of our body and mind with natural foods and herbs we're ultimately going to show beneficial results. There is no way around it.


  • Eliminate Fat and Cellulite With Herbal Wraps
    [Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] The natural ingredients in the herbal wrap work to break up the fat cells inside your body, which will then travel through the lymphatic channels, where finally the toxins will be eliminated through your bowels and kidneys. The wrap is considered to be a mild form of liposuction. The great thing about it is the wrap is easy and safe to use.


  • Is Resentment Destroying Your Marriage?
    [Relationships:Marriage] Resentment is a very powerful emotion. In fact, anyone who harbors this terrible emotion shouldn't be trying to make rational decisions for themselves or their marriage. I would even venture to say that most divorces are because of unmet and unfulfilled emotions, which is what this emotion is!! It can literally control a person-what they say-what they do-and how they behave. Unfulfilled people are the biggest resentment holders because they don't speak up assertively to get their needs met.


  • Detoxify With Easy Herbal Applications
    [Health-and-Fitness:Detoxification] When we detoxify our body through cleansing, fasting, green drinks, juicing and herbs we are ultimately getting rid of toxic agents and impurities in our body that cause sickness and disease. Toxins drain through the channels of the lymphatic system and into the kidneys, liver, and the colon where they finally escape the body.


  • Love is Forgiveness, Compassion, Submission and Respect
    [Relationships:Love] A healthy marriage is made up of compassion, submission, respect and forgiveness. Did you notice that I didn't even use the word "love"? That's because all of the above constitutes love. When you demonstrate these character traits with others you are essentially turning these words into loving action. Love is being submissive, compassionate, respectful and forgiving...


  • Does Your Marriage Belong to God?
    [Relationships:Marriage] The attitude of society toward respecting the God-given positions of husband and wife in marriage has caused all kinds of problems within the marriage and family unit. The blatant disrespect for the husband of being the protector, overseer, and main financial provider for the family has been perverted. The blatant disrespect for the wife being the helpmate and support to her husband and his position has become perverted in society.


  • Reduce Cellulite, Stretch Marks and Wrinkles With Herbs
    [Health-and-Fitness:Skin-Care] If you have cellulite, stretch marks, or wrinkles the herbs in this blend will literally work under the skin, breaking down fat cells and rejuvenating the skin reducing the appearance of cellulite, stretch marks and wrinkles. There are several different ways that you can administer herbs for healing.


  • How to Love the Man You Married
    [Relationships:Marriage] Respecting the man you married is not constantly nagging and complaining to him over minor issues and circumstances going on around the home because you feel the need to control or have power over him. Some wives do this often and don't even realize they are doing it. Husbands don't even realize this is happening. Then we wonder why our man strays from the marriage.


  • How to Love the Woman You Married
    [Relationships:Marriage] God created the sexes equal and yet they each have different temperaments, personalities, and behaviors that compliment one another. The best way to love the woman you married is to understand those differences.


  • How to Find Bargains and Stop Using Credit Cards
    [Finance:Budgeting] The best way to stop using credit cards is to change your attitude. If you really believe that you need brand new cars, homes, clothes, furniture, etc, then you probably won't make it very far without your credit cards. But you can make it very well without indulging in credit when you change the way you think you must live.


  • Look Ten Years Younger in Eight Weeks!
    [Health-and-Fitness:Anti-Aging] How would you like to look ten years younger in just eight weeks? The best way to do that is to give your digestion system a break. You are your best friend when it comes to how you look and feel. Simply put, you are the product that will achieve the effects of youthfulness. You can age naturally and ever so gracefully or you can age prematurely. It all depends on you and what is going into your body on a daily basis.


  • How to Treat Your Husband Like a Man
    [Relationships:Marriage] The feminist movement and the ways of society has created some confused women to treat their husbands with disrespect-its an attitude that is fostered through encouraging women to be all that they can be, without the aid of a man. And that's fine, but if she is married is it still fine? How can you treat your husband like the man of the home/marriage when you are already behaving as if you are the man?


  • How Being Kind to Others Boosts Health
    [Self-Improvement:Personal-Growth] To treat others in the way you would like to be treated is a very healthy principle to adhere to in this life. It would follow then that to be happy would be to give something of ourselves to others. There is no better gift of giving than to love.


  • Are You Living a Balanced Lifestyle?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Mind-Body-Spirit] The ideal standard for good health is a balanced lifestyle. Are you living a balanced lifestyle, physically, mentally, and spiritually? Here is how to tell.


  • Alcoholism - Working the 12-Steps
    [Self-Improvement:Addictions] AA helps the alcoholic come out from the clutches of denial and better understand who they are in relation to others and themselves. It helps them to grow out from self and grasp the concept of their Creator, which gives them faith and hope in God as well as in themselves. The community of AA helps the alcoholic to see that they are not alone in their addiction. They will meet others who are also working towards sobriety that they can identify themselves with and also receive encouragement from.


  • Married to a Bossy and Controlling Spouse?
    [Relationships:Marriage] Are you married to a bossy or controlling spouse? Why do some couples control and boss each other around? People who control others with words, threats, fist, lies, and manipulative behavior usually have underlying insecurities within them. Perhaps they are usually afraid of losing something or someone.


  • How Alcoholism and Hypoglycemia Controls Body, Mind, and Spirit
    [Self-Improvement:Addictions] Alcoholism is a health affliction of the mind, body and soul. Virtually anyone can become an alcoholic if they are around the conditions that breed addictive behavior such as alcoholism - that would be environmentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. Alcoholism is an addiction that attaches itself to the body, mind, and spirit of its victims. Let's take a look.


  • I Love You But I'm Not "In Love" With You Anymore
    [Relationships:Love] Has your spouse told you they weren't "in love" with you anymore? Well do I have news for you. The saying "I love you but I'm not in love with you anymore" is a worn out cliche. It's not possible to "fall out of love" because you weren't "in love" to begin with. The excuse "I'm not in love with you anymore" is nonsensical. Let me tell you why.


  • How to Stay Faithful in Your Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Did you know that our thoughts and beliefs become actions over time? The more we think about being with other people outside of our marriage, the more these thoughts will become our actions. Knowing this then, the first step to conquer infidelity is not to have the desires within our mind in the first place. Easier said than done? Not really.


  • Beat Depression Naturally by Boosting Your Happy Hormones
    [Health-and-Fitness:Depression] If you knew there was a shark swimming next to you in the ocean, what would you do? Most people will hightail it out of the water as fast as they can back to the shore. As a matter of fact no one in their right mind is going to let a shark devour them alive! On the same token we can let food be our medicine or we can let food devour us alive. Which would you prefer?


  • Why It's Important to Respect Your Wife or Husband
    [Relationships:Marriage] Respect is a principle that supports and sustains many aspects of marriage. If a husband respects and regards his wife with high esteem it will make her feel good about her role as a woman and of being his wife. Marriage will undoubtedly have its troubles, but if you remember the principle "to treat your wife the way you would like to be treated" then most marriage problems can be resolved amicably before they get out of hand.


  • Sugar, Self Esteem, and Emotional Issues
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Is there a link between sugar and self esteem? Traditional doctors may not have discovered how eating refined sugar influences our emotions and the way we feel about ourselves, but it does. When I was in my twenties and thirties I experienced it over, and over, and over again. And I have seen it over and over and over again with young Hollywood celebrities and other young people. There is a definite connection to fluctuating blood sugar levels, self esteem and emotions.


  • 3 Foods That Cause Disease
    [Health-and-Fitness:Diseases] Refined sugar goes through an involved process, which virtually turns a natural sugar product into something toxic. Refined sugar originates from the cane or the beet. Factories take out all the vitamins and all the minerals to make a white crystalline substance called sugar. Manufacturers then label it as being PURE in big bold letters. But it is far from being pure - it is one of the most toxic substances known to man. P is for plastic. U is for ulcer. R is for rotten. And E is for Enemy. That spells P.U.R.E Sugar.


  • Sugar Overload Syndrome - I Love Sugar But Sugar Hates Me
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Hypoglycemia is not a disease like you have heard; it is a warning signal that let's us know we are overloading our body with too much refined products. It can be cured through proper eating. Low blood sugar attacks will not suddenly come back just because you had some ice cream or a candy bar, if you are already healthy.


  • Courtship Tips For Women
    [Relationships:Dating] Courtshipping is different then dating. Courting is more like being friends without the emotional or sexual involvement. If this sounds like something you would be interested in then read on for some great courtship tips.


  • Should Good Girls Attract Men Or Just Be Themselves?
    [Relationships:Dating] When I read articles about the "laws of attraction" and "how to attract the man of your dreams" I wonder how many young women are really falling for this gimmick. Think about this for a moment. If you have to behave differently, other than just being yourself to attract the opposite sex, then is the person you are trying to attract, really someone you would want to have a relationship with?


  • How Dating Prepares Couples For No Commitment in Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Most of us walk into marriage thinking we have married our spouse for life. But what happens a few years down the road when times get tough? How is our commitment level then? Commitment is not about words we say to each other at the alter.


  • Trusting in God For Our Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Who are you trusting in when things go wrong in your marriage? Are you trusting in self, or perhaps you go running to family and friends, explaining your side of the story? Some of us go running to therapists, counselors, divorce lawyers, and strangers on the street. But we seldom run to God.


  • Reflections on Alcoholism
    [Self-Improvement:Addictions] It's never easy living with an alcoholic. Sometimes we try so hard to live with the alcoholic that we end up enabling them to drink. The problem is we don't see the alcoholic as being sick but someone we don't like to be around when they are drinking.


  • How to Have Happiness and Abundance in Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Society has taken marriage and turned it upside down. The intention of "loving each other for life" is a nice thought, but if couples aren't really committed to working together and helping each other be all that they can be, then they are probably going to have an unhappy marriage. It's all about priorities, priorities, priorities.


  • How to Be Happy in Your Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] A healthy marriage relies on the foundations of truth, honesty, honor, respect, and above all commitment. Couples don't have a problem staying married, that's the easy part! The difficult element of marriage is actually being happy and satisfied? Wouldn't you say?


  • Romancing Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Sensuality and passion between couples becomes heightened when they share in fun and enjoyable things together. We're always learning, growing and noticing new things about the person we married. They change and they grow and as we share stimulating and interesting times with our spouse so does our perception of them change in a way we didn't think possible. And this is why we shouldn't let our marriage become dreary and mundane but always seek out fun and challenging things to share together.


  • How to Carry Around the Right Attitude For Your Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Did you know that our attitude in life could make or break the person we are? Our attitude tells us what to do in certain situations and how to behave with certain issues in our marriage. Are you carrying around the right attitude for your marriage? This article will explore the top six reasons why we might be carrying around the "not so right attitude".


  • How I Lost Weight and Still Ate Junk Food
    [Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] Sound too good to be true? Well think again! It's true, eat what you want whenever you want, and still lose weight. How do I know this? I've worked the program! This is not a diet. It is a program. If you stick with the program I guarantee, you will lose weight.


  • Why Am I Obligated to Stay Married to an Adulterer?
    [Relationships:Marriage] You are obligated to stay married to an adulterer because marriage is for better or worse. Maybe the "worse" part is when your spouse falls away from God and commits adultery, but you are still married. Marriage does not end because times are rough and your spouse is enslaved within sinful lust.


  • Love Is A Gift From God
    [Relationships:Love] You may be thinking how can love be a gift from God? We have been offered many spiritual gifts from God but if we don't have love when using the gifts - what good is that to others? We can either accept the gift of love or reject it. When we don't love our neighbor are we accepting love or rejecting it? When we don't forgive others when they trespass against us, are we accepting love or rejecting it? Love is a gift because it can be denied.


  • Why It's Hard to Say "I'm Sorry"
    [Relationships:Conflict] It is hard to say, "I'm sorry" because then we have to admit we did something wrong and it usually means we have offended someone through our own insolent words or actions. But saying I'm sorry is the right thing to do if we have wronged someone, especially if we want to be a good example for our children. Imagine your child growing up seeing mom or dad behaving inappropriately towards each other and never saying they are sorry? What kind of relationships will they have when they are older?


  • The Assertive Husband is the Smart Husband
    [Relationships:Marriage] Couples need to be assertive through productive communication. Husbands really need to speak up and talk about their feelings. If a husband feels undervalued and not appreciated, talk with your wife. Wife if you feel undervalued then talk with your husband. Don't wait until after you had an affair to tell your spouse how you feel or "why" you did it. Adultery hurts too many lives to play games like that. Do the right thing and talk with your spouse, today! Be the smart husband.


  • Why Some People Cheat
    [Relationships:Affairs] Adulterers don't really go by any moral guidelines telling them not to cheat. Cheaters simply allow society to shape and mold who they are, rather than allow God to go to work in their lives. When we don't apply our spiritual self to our life, and we come up against temptation, we believe it's ok to cheat just because we are unhappy in our marriage or just because we can.


  • Me? Submit to Him?
    [Relationships:Marriage] I thought there were only a few other woman who thought like I did, but then I accidentally surfed to Dr. Laura Schlessinger's website. It is pleasing to know, and so encouraging that I found another woman, and a successful one to boot, who believes that a man should be the watchdog of the household. Face it, women weren't meant to control the world of men, just like men were not meant to wear a bra and pantyhose.


  • Resentment - A Marriage Destroyer
    [Relationships:Marriage] Resentment? What's that? According to Readers Digest Family Thesaurus, resentment means bad feelings, anger, outraged spirit, crossness, bad temper, dungeon huff, ill will, rancor, bitterness, sourness, wounded pride, hurt feelings, displeasure, animosity.


  • How a Husband Should Love His Wife & How a Wife Should Love Her Husband
    [Relationships:Marriage] Forget about the box of chocolates and flowers. Any man can go buy these things. But any man cannot show love to his wife on a whim. The chocolates get eaten and make your wife fat and cranky; the flowers wither and die in three days. What about showing your love by doing things that you know your wife will enjoy?


  • How to Not Change Your Spouse
    [Relationships:Marriage] Loving our spouse is giving them the freedom to be who it is they are. When we love without WANTING anything in return, that is when we have accepted our spouse for being who they are, faults and all.


  • Marriage - Detach With Love
    [Relationships:Marriage] As we all know there are times in marriage when we need to detach from our spouse. It is far better to detach with love then to burst out with angry, destructive, or negative feelings. When we detach it gives us some time to think about the situation at length and then come back to our spouse with a satisfying solution.


  • Bible Study - Are You a Slave to Sexual Sins?
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Are you having less sex with your spouse or stopped having sex with your spouse because you are looking at pornography? Are unhealthy emotions overtaking your thoughts and controlling the outcome of your actions? Have you tried to quit looking at porn but can't?


  • 5 Natural Remedies For 5 Common Ailments You Can Find in Your Kitchen
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Below are just a few of the natural remedies I have tried on my husband, three sons, friends, family and myself. They really work! Open your mind to trying the herbs and spices that God has given us in their natural form. These healing remedies cannot hurt you because they are not processed into chemicals but are natural and absolutely safe to use.


  • Is Flirting and Looking the Same As Cheating?
    [Relationships:Affairs] Don't tell me you have never looked? Don't tell me you have never flirted? We're so busy trying to find out if our spouse is cheating that we haven't taken the time to even look at our own behavior? Perhaps we have rejected them sexually over and over again. Or maybe we have treated them with disrespect and contempt. Or could it be we have cheated ourselves - if we are suspicious of our spouse, maybe it's because we don't trust ourselves.


  • Marriage Alive!
    [Relationships:Marriage] Bring out the creative person you are and splash some good old fashion fun back into your marriage! You can do these things right from home without breaking the pocketbook. Turn the TV off, play some of your favorite music and do some enjoyable things together for a change. Watch the relationship between you and your spouse get tighter!


  • Forgiveness in Marriage - 5 Biblical Aspects You Should Know
    [Relationships:Marriage] I talk a lot about forgiveness in marriage and relationships. Why? Because without forgiving those who have wronged us, we will never be able to forget the wrong either. And when I say, "forget", I mean in the sense that the wrong will never be brought up again to hurt or otherwise abuse our spouse with.


  • Biblical Aspects on Faith
    [News-and-Society:Religion] Though God hears our prayers, they may not get answered the way we think they should. What we want and ask for in our prayers is probably not what God wants for us. Many of us pray only when we are in dire need of something. But this is not using faith properly. This is being selfish to God.


  • Assertiveness in Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Anyone can be assertive but it involves practice. You can't just one day say, "Hey I'm going to be assertive today." You have to realize the times when you need to be assertive and practice it. In marriage there are many times when we need to be assertive with our spouse. We may need to let them know how we FEEL for instance. Being assertive is good for marriage. I'll tell you why.


  • Are You Allowing Emotions to Control Your Life?
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Emotions play a big role in our life. They are active and alive twenty-four hours a day, even in our dreams. Emotions literally tell us what to do with our marriage, family, job, career, self, and how we love others. If we don't control the course that our emotions run, we might be heading down the road towards destruction.


  • 12 Biblical Precepts For Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Sometimes in marriage we just need to hear it again. We need to hear that marriage takes a few simple guidelines to help it along. With time we tend to forget that our marriage needs a bit of TLC once in while. Because of this, I have made a list of a few areas I think all marriages could utilize to bring back that punch that is so vital in marriage.


  • How Alcoholism Controls Your Life?
    [Self-Improvement:Addictions] It happens without warning. It creeps into your life and all of a sudden, you're hooked. At first you're the life of the party, and later you're the drunk of the party. When you're young, twenties and thirties, your body can handle all the booze, no problem. But mentally it impairs the way you view and feel the world around you.


  • My Wife Won't Forgive Me! (Part 2 of 2)
    [Relationships:Marriage] My wife torments me everyday because I had an affair. I wish that I hadn't cheated on her, it was wrong and I feel so much grief and shame over it. I just wish she would quit rubbing my nose in it. I know that she hates me, otherwise, why else would she continue to torment me with my past? Why won't she forgive me? What can I do?


  • Married Women Who Control Men
    [Relationships:Wedding] At one time in my life I lead my marriage under my own understanding of what I thought was righteous and good. I was all-powerful. God? Who's that? I was rebellious and stubborn to my husband because I was married to my selfish lifestyle and wayward beliefs that kept me from accepting and recognizing God. I rejected my husband sexually because I often thought all he wanted was sex. How could anyone love me, after all I didn't like the person who I had become? I rejected God for my life too, and that was the biggest mistake I had ever made.


  • Love the Person You Are and Hate the Person You Aren't
    [Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] Did you know that love is a choice? We choose to love or not to love. It's that simple. But I believe the non-loving choice is not our "true selves." The non-loving self is absorbed in anger, judgment, resentment, and all kinds of things that we allow to control how we love.


  • Signs That Your Spouse is NOT Cheating
    [Relationships:Affairs] Is your spouse cheating or not? Any unusual behavior can be misconstrued as a "sign" of a cheater. Granted, there are some spouses that are more prone to cheating than others and the signs are surely appropriate, but some spouses simply don't cheat. Understand that when we look for signs of a cheater, we'll surely find them, but suppose that our spouse isn't cheating?


  • Loving Your Alcoholic Wife
    [Self-Improvement:Addictions] Through Al-Anon my husband finally learned how to stop enabling me and to move on with his life. "Moving on" with his own life does not mean that he left me, but that he learned to detach from my emotional outbursts brought on by alcoholism. We still lived in the same home, its just now my husband was not allowing my verbal abuse to affect him. It is not the end of your marriage because your wife is an alcoholic; it is through your strength to overcome the insidiousness of addiction that may bring the beginning of a new life for your wife and yourself.


  • Dad Helped Nab a Sex Offender
    [News-and-Society:Crime] Did you hear about the dad who helped nab a sex offender? It all happed from his daughter's computer. The daughter went out with friends and dad, doing his job, started going through his daughter's chat files. He came across a very suspicious looking chat about some guy wanting to meet with his daughter for some fun. Well dad followed through with the chat pretending he was the daughter. The pervert wanted to meet and have sex with the daughter, so dad set up a meeting with the pedophile. This bad guy is going to be in for a huge surprise when the cops nab him when he gets there.


  • Why Jealousy Hurts So Bad
    [Relationships:Conflict] Jealousy is a very powerful emotion and if left unattended it can literally wreck havoc in our relationships and marriage. Why do we get jealous of our spouse? Why does jealousy hurt so badly? Jealousy hurts because we feel this emotion usually after our spouse has harmed us in some way. But sometimes we feel jealous for no reason whatsoever and this is very harmful to our relationships.


  • Being Assertive is Good For Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Assertive expression is a good way to communicate if we want to improve the openness and intimacy of our marriage. Most of us married people need and want a spouse who is going to be open and assertive with their feelings, need, and wants. But sometimes we can come across as naggy, bossy, or complaining, so we need to be careful how we assert ourselves. Discernment is the key here.


  • Who is Your Spouse Talking to on the Internet?
    [Relationships:Marriage] There is a lot of talk about unfaithfulness in marriage. I've written my fair share about cheating spouses and infidelity in marriage. This article will focus on a different kind of unfaithfulness, emotional infidelity. What is emotional infidelity? Emotional infidelity is interacting with others, besides the person you are married to, on an intimate and emotional level.


  • Exposing the Adultery Pandemic
    [Relationships:Affairs] Adultery is like a virus but much worse. It spreads from person to person like a virus and if a person is not spiritually well, it will entangle them within its insidious hold and cause spiritual and mental anguish, not to mention, in many cases, physical illness and deterioration. The pandemic of adultery is trying to suck everyone in with it, and doing pretty good job at it. Are you going to cave in and become entangled within its grip too? The consequences of adultery can actually result in people getting weak and diseased. That is why it is a sin.


  • Are You Prepared For Marriage?
    [Relationships:Marriage] Ok, so you're getting married in a few months, how prepared are you for marriage? There are many factors about marriage you should ask yourself before diving in headfirst. Sit by the edge of the pool with me for a moment and get your feet a little wet first, then, if you're ready to take the plunge then go ahead and dive right in.


  • The Subliminal Messages of Negative Imagery on Our Children
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Here is a common scenario: Your fifteen-year old son is checking his email when pornography spam accidentally makes its way into his inbox. The subject line: "See Britney Spears Naked". What is your son going to do? Will he click on it? The only way he is NOT going to click on it is if you, the parent have been teaching your son self-respect and proper morals in life since he was a boy. Young boys need to understand how to value and respect women because most young girls and women can be respected and valued.


  • Stop Divorce and Recommit Yourselves
    [Relationships:Marriage] Recommitting yourselves to one another in marriage is for couples that are choosing to work on their marriage, resolve issues, and recommit their lives to each other. It is for couples that have grown apart spiritually and or emotionally and intend on encouraging each other through their devotion to one another. And finally, it is for couples who just want to remind their spouse of how much they mean to them, and to keep the bond going strong.


  • Why Are Unhappy People Unhappy?
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] An unhappy person often uses others to get what they need out of life. At first this may work, but after a while the relationship begins to experience problems because their partner cannot tolerate the life getting literally sucked out of them. This kind of needy and spongy behavior is what the medical and psychiatric establishments like to call, "codependency".


  • Denial Leads The Addict Further Into Addiction - How You Can Help
    [Self-Improvement:Addictions] Our minds are powerful elements of who we are; so powerful that our thoughts and beliefs will actually lead us astray in many areas of our life. Take the idea of denial for a moment, mix that in with an addiction, and what do you think is going to happen? That's right, the addict will slowly creep further into their addiction, all the while listening to that powerful inner voice telling them they don't have a problem.


  • Unhappy In Marriage But Don't Believe In Divorce?
    [Relationships:Marriage] Let Go For The Need To Control -- Most people want to control their spouse or change them to meet certain standards so they can feel better about themselves. The truth is you cannot change your spouse to be that perfect person for you. Let go of trying to alter things that you are powerless to change. If you can truly release the burden of knowing you are powerless to change your spouse, a heavy burden will be instantly lifted from your shoulders. It really will!


  • Marriage, Divorce, and Remarriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Remarriage to the man or woman you first married is more prevalent than you would think. Wouldn't it be great to be able to have the knowledge beforehand of knowing you will remarry your spouse, so you could skip the divorce part of it, work on the marriage and stay married?


  • Choosing To Work On A Bad Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Choosing to work on your marriage takes willingness by both spouses. You either want to work on the marriage, or you don't, it is really that simple. Sometimes you might talk yourself out of staying married and look for reasons "why" you should not work on the marriage. You know when you're talking yourself out of working on the marriage when you go to friends and family who you know may be biased toward you, and against your spouse.


  • How Do I Trust My Spouse Again After Adultery
    [Relationships:Marriage] Accountability is what brings trust back in some marriages because it shows the deceived spouse the adulterer can be trusted once again, but it does take time and consistent actions on a daily basis. We do want to be careful with accountability though, because you don't want to come off as a mother hen or bossy dictator.


  • How Do I Forgive My Spouse After Adultery?
    [Relationships:Affairs] Has your spouse committed adultery and now you don't trust them anymore? Do you feel betrayed and abused by someone you thought loved you? Do you just want to get them back by throwing stones at them every chance you get? Do you find it hard to forgive your spouse? Then this article is for you.


  • Common Obstacles of Marriage - Expectations, Demands, and Control Issues
    [Relationships:Marriage] Marriage is a learning and growth process, no doubt about it. But some of us never learn by it. If we do not learn how to get along with our spouse the first time around, what makes us think the second time around will be any different? The second time around may not have the same issues and circumstances but it will have trials just like the first time. I say stick it out, so there won't be a second time.


  • Have You Really Fallen Out of Love With Your Spouse?
    [Relationships:Marriage] Loving the person we married will not always make us feel good inside, no matter how good the marriage is or how close we are in the intimacy department. But if we want the feelings of being "in love" brought back in our marriage then we can re-ignite the passion of intimacy by doing something about the attitude we have of not being "in love" anymore.


  • Does Your Child "Really" Have Attention Deficient Disorder?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] Most people don't realize how easily they can be made to believe a certain way because they have heard the same dogma about Attention Deficient Disorder over and over in the media that they begin to believe like the masses, in that this syndrome called ADDS is a disease that cannot be cured and can only be suppressed with medications. This is incorrect information.


  • 6 Popular Myths About Love, Life, And Forgiveness
    [Relationships:Love] FACT: It is true that a cheating spouse and an unfaithful spouse have both committed adultery, but the fact is, the cheater will continue to cheat over and over again, while the unfaithful spouse has repented and hopefully will not commit adultery again. A cheater does not have any spiritual wisdom or discernment to care about his disloyal actions against his spouse. An unfaithful spouse feels remorse, and is willing to humble himself before God.


  • Marriage - Rev Up Your Sex Life
    [Relationships:Sexuality] A husband who often ejaculates prematurely can leave his wife feeling discouraged and frustrated. A husband can remedy premature ejaculation by waiting to have intercourse until his wife is ready - by adding an additional ten minutes to the lovemaking with some activity that is going to give his wife stimuli as well as him. Get creative with your spouse and learn to enjoy every minute of intimacy that you share together.


  • Treat Your Wife With Respect As The Weaker Partner
    [Relationships:Marriage] What does the above scripture mean? This scripture does not mean "weaker" partner in the sense of moral or intellectual ability, but in physical ability. What is Peter trying to teach to husbands? I think Peter is telling husbands to honor and respect their wives by protecting them against outside influences and criminal abuses. If a husband is a man of God he will protect his wife from harm.


  • Is A Passionate Kiss Outside of Marriage Considered Adultery?
    [Relationships:Affairs] When a married man or woman even looks at another person with thoughts of sex or with thoughts of desiring him or her, it is adultery of the mind. The more we think about desiring another person and the more we look with thoughts of longing, the chances are physical adultery will occur. What is produced in our mind eventually comes out in our actions. So knowing this then, what do you think a passionate kiss will produce?


  • Proof Is In The Results
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Some people feel this compelling need to prove something to others. They walk around with an attitude, "look at me", "see what I do", "see what I know", "look at me". Most people do this to some degree, but there is a certain type of person who revels in it. Some Christian's walk around with "a holier than thou attitude", which actually turns people away from God.


  • You Don't Need Dating Sites - You Need Godly Answers
    [News-and-Society:Religion] The initial euphoria of meeting up with someone new on the Internet may seem like the right thing to do, after all, you are lonely and maybe most of your friends are married, and so why not find a suitable mate online, right? Wrong. Online dating and even offline dating is not the right thing to do for anyone, especially the younger generation. There is still so much to learn and understand about a marriage relationship that rushing into something you may not be ready for is asking for trouble.


  • How Can I Forgive When It Hurts So Bad?
    [Relationships:Marriage] I know it hurts. It hurts so bad we don't want to forgive. The pain is unbearable at times and all we really want to do is get revenge, or keep wallowing in the pain that our feelings give us and remain resentful and angry. This is such a common problem in marriage today, so I feel it is worth more than rubies and gold to keep writing about it.


  • Jump Start Your Mind With Spiritual Affirmations
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] What we think and believe will inevitably come out in our actions. In one-way or another a negative attitude can make or break a relationship. The power of your mind is a strong force and can be used to do good with or can be used to do damage with. What do you watch on TV? Who do you hang out with in your spare time? What kind of people do you work with on any given day?


  • The Healing Power of Laughter
    [Self-Improvement:Happiness] I believe the more we laugh the longer we will live. Laughter is one of the greatest forms of healing. I think it is great to try and make other people laugh and feel good inside to improve their mental and spiritual outlook on life.


  • Being Emotionally There For Your Spouse
    [Relationships:Marriage] The vast majority of couples do not communicate properly. You might think you communicate just fine, but any time you discount what your spouse is saying, or any time you interrupt with your own view on things, you are not communicating properly.


  • Jumping the Hurdle of Addiction
    [Self-Improvement:Addictions] Addiction, like any adversity we face in life is just another hurdle we need to overcome. It's not the end of your life because you have a problem with drinking today. It's the beginning of a learning experience for tomorrow, and not just for the alcoholic, but for the loved one of the alcoholic as well. Adversity definitely makes people stronger. I cannot stay that I am stronger because of my own doing but because of what God has done for me in my life. There is a difference. After spending years enveloped within an addiction, I came to realize that I was powerless to stop drinking and remain sober on my own. It is not our own strength but God's strength.


  • The Dry Drunk
    [Self-Improvement:Addictions] A dry drunk is someone who exhibits alcoholic behaviors and thinking but has not actually had any alcohol. A dry drunk displays the same signs and symptoms as an alcoholic, such as denial, anger, resentment, and spiritual and emotional immaturity. Actually, there are many dry drunks in the twelve step rooms. They have gone to alcoholics anonymous for years but still live an unmanageable life as they struggle through each day without a drink.


  • Bring Sex Back Into Your Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] It is your responsibility to make sure you orgasm during lovemaking. You can tell your spouse what feels good and what you like, but after that the rest is up to you. I cannot believe the volumes and volumes of books out there that talk about how to have a great sex life, and how to do it, and what positions, etc. All of that is so relative to the simple act of having sex with the person you married and should be loving. Choose to love by taking responsibility for your part in the marriage.


  • 3 Factors That Will Improve Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Happily ever after is not a fairy tale. There are couples that have been married happily for years. So what keeps these marriages going strong until death? I don't believe it is just one factor that keeps couples together forever. I think it is several contributing factors all rolled into one that work together and here they are.


  • What Do Couples Need From Each Other In Marriage?
    [Relationships:Marriage] What does a wife need from her husband? I can't answer that question for all women, but I do know what I need. I need my husband to be supportive of my endeavors and ideas. I want my husband to realize that the marriage does not center only around him and what he needs, but on what we both need. I want for my husband to make time for me.


  • Make Marriage Your Responsibility and Be Accountable
    [Relationships:Marriage] As a married adult, what are your responsibilities in marriage? What did you learn in school or at home about responsibility and accountability in life? Ninety-nine percent of high school graduates know nothing about how a relationship works. How could they, most of them have dated since they were twelve and had sex with five or ten different partners? They have been mentally and emotionally abused.


  • A Wife's Submission To Her Husband
    [Relationships:Wedding] Some Christian wives tell me they have a difficult time submitting to their husband because he is behaving inappropriately, either through controlling behavior or demanding submission, or other ungodly activities. If this is the case, I must admit that it would be difficult to submit to this kind of authority. After all, many of these women go on to tell me they thought they married a man of God, not a Hitler.


  • Stop Divorce In Its Tracks
    [Relationships:Divorce] Lately I have been getting more and more emails from people who are not in agreement to divorce their spouse, what can they do? Don't they have any say-so in the matter? It's unfortunate because according to the state, they don’t have any say-so. A spouse can refuse to sign the papers, but the state has loopholes for that too, it is called the "uncontested divorce", which means, if you don't sign, the divorce proceedings will go on without you and you will then have no say-so in any of the logistical matters concerning the divorce. I did the research.


  • Why Do Marriages Fail?
    [Relationships] Marriages do not fail; it is the people in marriage that fail. God would never design a marriage program that failed. God is perfect and He has established perfection in marriage. Marriages fail because we are not taking responsibility for ourselves in the marriage. If we don’t work the program, we won’t know what to do when trouble strikes, and ultimately we will fail the marriage class.


  • 4 Ways Couples Verbally Abuse Each Other
    [Relationships] The power of our words can make or break a marriage. The way we treat our spouse because of our own inability to communicate properly can literally build up barriers between couples. Words hurt, even though as children we learned to say, “words may never hurt us” the simple fact is, words can be darn right abusive. Most of us when abused with words, abuse back, because we don’t know how to fight back properly.


  • Loving The Way God Intended
    [Relationships:Love] How can we love ourselves and others when we are unhappy, depressed, resentful, lonely, addicted, or when we have past issues that haunt us, or when we have a low self worth? How do we break free from the past and start living for the here and now?


  • Why A Woman Wouldn't Cheat On Her Man
    [Relationships:Affairs] Cheaters cheat to make themselves feel better; it is a form of validation. It feels good to have someone want you, adore you, and basically treat you as if you were the only person in his or her world. But these kind of shallow relationships do not last because uncommitted hearts will always be wrapped up within the cheating heart syndrome. Once the feelings are gone, off they go to the next relationship.


  • The Intimately Satisfied Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] What constitutes intimacy in a relationship? Is it having great sex once a day? Is it being romantically involved? It could be those things, but intimacy is sharing yourself with the one you love because you trust them and you appreciate them. Sex alone is not what makes intimacy. Romance alone is not what makes intimacy. But if you put romance, sex, respect, honesty, communication, and appreciate into the equation and you balance those areas out in the marriage that could very well constitute intimacy in marriage.


  • Betrothal vs. Dating
    [Relationships:Dating] Betrothal is different than worldly engagement; there is NO SEX during the betrothal period, and the betrothal cannot be broken off like an engagement. Betrothal is a promise between God and the couples just like marriage is. The betrothal period unlike the dating period is a sound biblically based relationship without the trappings of sex.


  • The Alcoholic Christian
    [Self-Improvement:Addictions] Alcoholism is running rampant today, even in Christian's homes! Scripture tells us we are not to get drunk on too much wine because it causes sin. But the bible says a believer in Christ is saved through the death of Jesus. Does that mean the alcoholic Christian is saved too?


  • Marriage - What Is Important?
    [Relationships] Have you taken the time to be there for your spouse? Some of you reading this may be thinking, "He hasn't taken the time to be a husband, why should I put in any special effort?" "She has rejected me for two weeks. I'm not going to do anything extra around the house for her." But we do have to put in special effort if we truly want to be there for each other.


  • Keeping Up With The Joneses
    [Finance:Personal-Finance] It's perfectly fine to want and have nice things if we don't get in over our head because of it. And it's even better to pay cash for the nice things we need and want so we never owe anybody or any institution anything. Being in debt and owing more money than what we paid for something because of interest on loans can be detrimental to our spiritual and mental health. Some families have to work more hours just to pay off their debts.


  • Marriage Does Not Come Already Fixed
    [Relationships:Marriage] In most instances, when couples marry young, marriage can be a big part of growing up, if they can stick it out and learn from their mistakes. Marriage happens to be a process of learning how to deal with certain issues and troubles that might occur during the relationship. Enduring the troubled times as well as the good is what helps couples to be more understanding of each other and hopefully wiser in the Lord.


  • Adultery is Forgivable
    [Relationships] Just last week I get an email from someone who wants me to tell them it’s okay for them to divorce their husband or wife because of unfaithfulness. But I don’t give them what they want. I don’t tell them what their ears want to hear because that is not what scripture says. Many times I have to tell people things that they don’t want to hear. Infidelity is not a loophole for divorce!


  • 5 Ways To Give Up Improper Habits
    [Self-Improvement:Goal-Setting] The biggest reason we don't try and change our behavior is we have accepted the habits as a part of who we are. But that’s not true. Habits are not "who we are" but rather "what we make ourselves be." We choose to make ourselves the habits that we have. If we truly believe that we cannot stop doing a particular behavior then we won’t even try to eradicate it from our lives.


  • Jesus Freaks and Potheads Are Not So Different After All
    [Kids-and-Teens] Even though it was a small school if some of the kids were too smart, they were considered “nerds”. If they were athletes they were considered “jocks”. If kids skipped school and smoked cigarettes they were considered “potheads”. If they wore cowboy boots and hat, they were considered “goat-ropers.” If kids started a lot of fights, they were considered “bullies.” If they read the bible, they were considered “Jesus freaks”.


  • Marriage: Change of Attitude = Change of Heart
    [Relationships] The world likes to feed gullible people things that aren’t true. Some people are susceptible to these untruths because they want to believe them. I wanted to believe them and I did believe them. We want answers to our marriage problems and we’ll practically listen to anyone who has something to say that we want to hear. Anything that will provide the validation we need for our own rotten actions.


  • Do You Love an Alcoholic-Setting Boundaries For You (Part 2)
    [Self-Improvement:Addictions] Remember that setting boundaries for you is not a threat or a way to control the alcoholic. On the contrary, your boundaries have nothing to do with them, and everything to do with you! The alcoholic may not like your new attitude and that is why you explain to them why you have set boundaries. Explain to them that you will not be around an argumentative or abusive alcoholic, but when they are sober, you would love to talk with them. Tell them, "I Love you, but I don't love the disease."


  • Do You Love an Alcoholic-Stop Rescuing and Enabling (Part 1)
    [Self-Improvement:Addictions] Do you love an alcoholic? How can you live with an alcoholic and love them at the same time? Very carefully. It’s true, it is very difficult to live with an alcoholic, but people do it all the time. Alcohol controls the mind and spirit of a person, so in affect as long as the alcoholic is drinking you will not get much love in return. Being married to an alcoholic is not a reason for divorce. It is reason for helping your loved one with the disease. Alcohol addiction is called the insidious disease for a reason. It breaks up homes, kills lives, and keeps them from discovering the Creator. Can it get anymore insidious than that?


  • The Man Who Would Not Lead His Family
    [Relationships] "My husband won't lead the family in bible study or prayer. He won't even discipline the children. What can I do?"


  • Witness by Example
    [Kids-and-Teens] When I was a teenager, I didn't know anything about Jesus. But if I could go back in time, and be a Christian teenager going to public school, knowing what I know now, this is how I would witness to my classmates and friends about the awesome power of Jesus Christ.


  • God Created Women In Special Ways
    [Womens-Interests] A woman’s power to influence can be used in many great and wonderful ways or it can be used to be downright destructive. Take a moment to reflect upon this. How did sin come upon the world? Through Eve, right? She ate of the forbidden fruit. Then what happened? She influenced her husband to eat of it too. She talked him into it! And he ate. She certainly didn’t have to do much influencing there, did she?


  • 7 Tips For Loving The Person You Married
    [Relationships:Wedding] The one and only true foundation for truly loving others comes from God. Therefore in order to actually love someone, you first need to love God with all of your heart, mind and soul. In return, God gives us the gifts of insight and wisdom so we can love others wholly. Be all of the person God wants you to be and watch your marriage grow in abundance and happiness.


  • The True Meaning of Christmas Is In The Hearts and Minds of Believers
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] There is a great commotion again this year surrounding how people are going to celebrate Christmas and whom they are going to worship, Jesus or santa? Even if the retail establishments, government institutions, schools and churches want to take Jesus out of the nativity and put santa in there instead it should not take away what Christmas means to you. Even if they take the word Christmas from all the holiday cards and quit worshipping the nativity scene, it should not take away from what Christmas means to you.


  • The Unbelieving Spouse Who Wants A Divorce
    [Relationships] If your spouse leaves the marriage it can be a devastating time. Sometimes they may want to get a divorce and bring papers for you to sign. But God says we are not to divorce an unbelieving spouse. In marriage, even if only one spouse is a believer, God says the marriage is sanctified and set apart for His purpose. According to the state you are divorced, but according to God you are still married.


  • Wake Up and Take Responsibility For Your Marriage
    [Relationships] Couples absolutely need to wake up and start taking responsibility for their marriage. It is not someone else’s responsibility to make sure you are both getting the love and respect you deserve. It is not your wife’s responsibility that you remain faithful. So why are you blaming your wife for your indiscretions? And it certainly is not the responsibility of your neighbor or your parents to support and love your wife, is it? It is not the responsibility of any state to separate a man and a woman from marriage. But we act as if it is! How can a state document divorce a husband and wife without God’s authority?


  • The Man Who Thought He Had Everything
    [Relationships] John Smith was a happily married man, satisfied with his engineer position in a nuclear power plant. John’s beautiful wife Beth was expecting twins in three weeks. John and Beth were excited about extending their family and raising children. Some people would say John had great things going for him, and to most folks, the Smiths had the ideal marriage.


  • A Black Friday "Standing In Line" Experience
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] By 10:00 pm families with small children begin arriving and the line was extending way to the back of the parking lot. People were putting up tents preparing for the long night. By 3:00 am, more and more people begin to horde themselves into the line. People begin cutting in front of other people. The line was not so nice anymore. The manager of Best Buy came out telling people that they were not allowed to cut in front of people and that he was calling the sheriff. People cut anyway.


  • 5 Reasons Why Affairs Don’t Work
    [Relationships:Affairs] We all want to be accepted, appreciated and loved and when we don’t get that at home, some of us go out of our way to go get it. But it is morally wrong to go outside the bounds of marriage and enjoy someone other than who we married. So why do some people do it?


  • 5 Ways To Be Patient and Kind During Holiday Shopping
    [Home-and-Family:Holidays] Before you go out and tackle the world of department stores, relax, take a deep breath, and tell yourself, "I will not be in a hurry. I will be patient and kind to others." And it will happen! Don’t think of yourself as being "one" with the crowd of other shoppers; be separate from the herd and make your shopping enjoyable.


  • 7 Ways To Love Difficult In-laws (Part 2)
    [Relationships] Some in-laws like to give out a lot of unasked for advice. They may tell you how to cook, what to wear, how to discipline the kids, How to budget your finances, etc. They may treat you as if you are still a child and don’t know any better. In-laws are older than us, but that does not necessarily mean they are wiser. Be respectful at all times, and take what you want and throw the rest out.


  • Difficult In-Laws: Severing the Umbilical Cord (Part 1)
    [Relationships] A problem in marriage today is when a married man has not yet severed the umbilical cord with his mother. The man who puts his mommy first, before his wife, will have a terrible marriage. This kind of a guy does not understand what his position is as a husband because he is still living as a little boy. If a “mommies boy” marries the type of woman who wants a husband instead of a son for a marriage partner, there will be incompatibility problems. Some wives’ don’t mind mothering their husbands but many women want a man who is in control of his life and knows what he wants.


  • Does Your Marriage Crave Water or Coca Cola?
    [Relationships:Marriage] When we feel thirsty and need to drink something to satisfy our thirst, what do we drink? Some of us drink water, and then some of us drink soft drinks. When our marriage is thirsty, what do we do? Some of us give our marriage what it craves and needs the most, pure, clean water. But some of us don’t understand what our marriage is really craving and we don’t give it water but something else that pollutes it even more.


  • Beauty of an Imperfect Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Is there such a thing as a perfect marriage? Are you living in an idyllic marriage with a perfect spouse? The newness and euphoria of a new marriage is what I call the storybook relationship. The relationship is going great because both husband and wife are doing things to please each other. You know about each other’s faults but you don’t seem to care. The romance level is at a peak, which keeps you both attentive to each other’s needs. But what happens after two or more years of marriage?


  • Would Jesus Celebrate Halloween?
    [News-and-Society:Religion] Scripture doesn't say anything about Halloween, but it does have principles in which we can make a better judgment on how we should celebrate this holiday, or if we should celebrate it at all. As Christians we should always be discerning in our choices and take time in prayer and reflection to decide if something is right for us.


  • How To Bring Intimacy Back Into Your Marriage
    [Relationships] A great relationship requires intimate moments. And those moments need your full attention and compassion. If something else is engrossing your mind, then your spouse will not get the attention they deserve. Your spouse deserves to be treated with kindness and forgiveness everyday, not just when you feel like it.


  • 7 Ways To A Successful Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] In a successful marriage both husband and wife understand where the other stands on certain issues within the marriage, and are considerate of each other’s feelings. They don’t let matters pile up on the back burner to cause unneeded resentment and animosity later; instead they discuss issues in an appropriate manner when they come up.


  • Marriage Takes a Giving and Forgiving Attitude
    [Relationships] Why do you say, “I have a bad marriage?” Maybe what you should be saying is, “I am a bad marriage partner?” The reality is folks, marriage takes a giving and forgiving attitude, and without that, what is left? You tell me what happens when you don’t forgive your spouse?


  • The Skinny On Teenage Body Image and Spiritual Health
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Many young women and teenagers are placing great value on looking like the latest Cover Girl model, and placing little or no value on spiritual health. I agree, it is important to be feel good about the way we look, but I think the culture is going a bit too far. It is far more important for young girls to feel good about who they are on the inside, wouldn’t you agree?


  • The Unfaithful Husband Seeking Forgiveness
    [Relationships:Wedding] It is sad and scary how society has deemed adultery a natural part of the American culture. This is why God specifically says for believers to separate from the ungodliness of the world. I truly believe that unfaithfulness in marriage stems from not keeping in tune with our spiritual side. We have to study the word and we have to bring the word into our heart and mind on a daily basis for reflection and spiritual growth. This article is for those husbands who are repentant and want to save their marriage.


  • The Unfaithful Wife Seeking Forgiveness
    [Relationships:Wedding] These days it seems, even the wife is getting herself into a little trouble when it comes to staying faithful. This article does not concern women who don’t care about right or wrong, and have become rebellious to their husbands. Any woman can be unfaithful to her husband, that’s the easy part; the hard part is being unfaithful to her beliefs.


  • Alcohol: The Most Used And Abused Drug By Teenagers
    [Health-and-Fitness:Drug-Abuse] According to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, June 1997, alcohol is the leading cause of death among teenagers. Teenage drinking contributes to the high rate of teenage car crashes, traumatic injuries, suicide and date rape. Alcohol is by far the most used and abused drug among America’s teenagers today. According to a national survey, nearly one third (31.5%) of all high school students reported hazardous drinking of five or more drinks in one setting. Twenty million American’s are alcoholics, and the children of these alcoholics are likely to inherit the disease. More than 40% of those who start drinking at age fourteen or younger become alcoholics. The problem I see is the lack of knowledge about alcoholism being an inherited disease. Children of alcoholics are four times more likely than other children to become alcoholics, according to the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.


  • Living With An Alcoholic Spouse: A Healthy Detachment
    [Health-and-Fitness:Drug-Abuse] You are powerless to getting your loved one to stop drinking. The first step in being able to detach is by realizing that the shenanigans of the alcoholic is not your problem. Don’t try and fix their messes for them. Not only does this enable them to continue drinking, but also it justifies their drinking. Don’t have any interaction with the alcoholic while they are drinking; that includes, talking and arguing with them. Why fuss and fight with someone who has lost the ability to make any sense?


  • How To Submit To The Person You Married
    [Relationships:Wedding] Why are women apprehensive about submitting to their husband's spiritual influence? I think it is because they feel they are putting themselves in a vulnerable position. What woman wants to feel vulnerable with the man she married? Why would a husband demand that his wife bow down to his authority? For many of these Christian men, I feel they do not understand the proper ways to love their wives.


  • The Throw Away Spouse
    [Relationships:Wedding] Have you thrown your spouse away for a new one? Lots of people do it; in fact, half of all marriages have at least one spouse that has been thrown away by the other; tossed to the wind as if they were garbage. Why are people throwing their spouse away? Are they giving up the fight? Could it be they don’t have the resolve to work on what they have been blessed with?


  • Motivated by Your Creative Talents
    [Self-Improvement:Creativity] In what ways do you use your creative talents? God has gifted all of His creation with special skills and talents. Not one person is left without some degree of creativity to share with others. Are you using your talents and gifts to serve others with?


  • Choosing To Work On Your Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] It takes courage for a person to stand up under certain sufferings in a marriage gone bad when all of their friends and family persistently tell them to leave their spouse. But it is at these trying times in marriage when we can really humble to Christ’s determination for us and allow Him to work through our troubled hearts while He works his awesome powers in our marriage.


  • Healthy and Hearty Lentil Lasagna For Vegetarian’s
    [Food-and-Drink:Recipes] I made this dish up several years ago when my family and I were testing out different aspects of vegetarianism. I missed having my Italian dishes such as lasagna and so I started experimenting with some of our favorite dishes, and I came up with lentil lasagna. I know that lentil lasagna does not sound very appetizing, but it is actually quite tasteful and packed with protein and fiber.


  • 5 Ways to Cut Down on Sugar in Your Families Diet
    [Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] One can of coke has twelve teaspoons of sugar! If you cut down on your soda pop consumption by only one a day, you will be getting much less sugar in your diet. Have the family do an experiment. Every week have everyone in the family drink one less soda pop until they are drinking only one a day. After three months see if there is any improvement in the overall health of the family.


  • Career Women More Prone to Divorcing Their Husband's: Can It Be True?
    [Relationships:Wedding] This can't be true! Or can it? According to Forbes magazine journalist, Michael Noer it is. He says that career women who make over $30,000 a year are more prone to divorcing their husbands because they are financially independent. This makes some sense. He also said that some of these career ladies might find someone at the office they like more than their husband's. The last reason I found extremely silly.


  • 5 Ways to Love The Woman You Married
    [Relationships:Wedding] I'm going to tell you in a nutshell, a better way to love the woman you married. Is that okay with you? It is called loving with wisdom. Do these 5 things on a consistent basis and, after one month let me know if your marriage has improved or not.


  • Motivated By Love
    [Relationships:Love] What motivates you? You wake up in the morning and you decide to make a positive change in your life. Maybe you decide you want to stop a bad habit that has been controlling you. Maybe you have decided to start your own home based business. Maybe you want to spend more time with your children or work on your marriage. Or, maybe you have decided to wash all of your home windows inside and out.


  • 5 Healthy Ways to Save on Your Monthly Groceries
    [Finance:Personal-Finance] If you can limit the buying of boxed and processed foods you can save a tremendous amount of money each month and eat better too. For instance take a box of instant potatoes vs. a ten pound bag of potatoes. Which do you think is more food in the long run? Fresh potatoes are also healthier for you than the dried version.


  • Married to an Unbelieving Spouse: Shine Your Light
    [Relationships:Wedding] A popular misnomer in society is people think that after they’re married they can change the things they don’t like about their spouse. But this is incorrect thinking to begin with. We cannot change anyone other than ourselves, and to try causes numerous problems within the marriage. If you cannot accept who you are going to marry, don’t get married!


  • Dad, Are You Protecting Your Daughter?
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Dad, are you watching over your daughter? Are you instilling godly values and wisdom in her? Are you building up her spirit or are you killing her spirit? Are you devaluing your daughter by not protecting her the way she needs to be protected from the world? God gave you the job of protecting your daughter from the ravages of society. Don’t let her get eaten up!


  • How to Influence Your Friends and Family Spiritually
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] There will always be scoffers and those who like to conger up reasons why your beliefs are wrong or inaccurate. Some of these people might be your close friends and family. Maybe they think you are too religious or too spiritual for your own good, especially if you have just come into the truth and started living under God's direction for your life.


  • 5 Ways To Start Marriage Off With The Right Attitude
    [Relationships:Marriage] Our attitude does in fact facilitate our actions and feeds the growing number of divorces in this country. Having the wrong attitude will keep couples from growing spiritually, mentally, and emotionally with each other. The spiritual connection between couples is what makes marriage what it is. So, what is the wrong attitude?


  • Parents and Teenagers: Dressing for a Classy and Sophisticated Look
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] When you look around in the world what do you see that you would like to modify or transform? I see a messed up pop culture filled up with teenage girls and young women, walking around on the streets, in the stores, and even in church, half naked! I am, a mother of three home-schooled teenage sons, which makes me kind of embarrassed by these tense moments together when half dressed teenage girls and women walk by and smile flirtatiously at my sons, while their bellies and breasts hang out of their shirts.


  • The 3 Biggest Secrets For Staying Married For Life
    [Relationships:Wedding] Managing your marriage doesn’t have to be difficult. It takes a few initiatives on your part to get yourself into the proper prospective of how marriage really works. Marriage is about living your purpose and attaining your goals that are related to that purpose.


  • Alcoholism and Adultery Go Together Like Bread and Butter
    [Self-Improvement:Addictions] Has your spouse cheated on you? Is your spouse a heavy drinker or alcoholic? I firmly believe that in most cases of a cheating spouse, adultery would not have happened were alcohol not involved. Alcoholism and adultery go together like bread and butter.


  • Married to an Alcoholic: 7 Steps to Helping Them Get Sober
    [Self-Improvement:Addictions] You have no verbal power over the alcoholic. What you do have control over is your actions. What you do and say to the alcoholic will have a direct affect on whether or not they will continue drinking or not.


  • How to Apply Productive Communication in Your Marriage
    [Relationships:Communication] In the past few months I have done some due diligent research into the troubles associated with marriage. Not to my amazement, I have discovered that in eight out of ten marital qualms, negative emotions, feelings and attitude, played a big role in the outcome of a couple’s marriage. Am I surprised? Not really.


  • What Men Need From Women and What They Don't Want
    [Relationships:Wedding] A man doesn’t like to be rejected sexually. Men have a sexual drive that when ignored can want him to turn to other means for gratification. Married women should always be there for their husband’s even when they don’t feel like it. This is not out of duty or responsibility, but out of love for the man you married. A husband needs his wife to want him.


  • Marriage Healing Begins With Attitude and Beliefs
    [Relationships:Marriage] Sometimes we have to do what is right rather than what feels good. If we only do what feels good and what we want, we’re not going to be very popular with others, especially the person we married. This kind of marriage will be heading straight for divorce court, won't it?


  • Emotional Infidelity in Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] The sharing of personal information with strangers online is thrown around loosely all over the Internet. And this new craze is at its peak with married women and men sharing their personal and intimate details with the opposite sex, on chat boards, personal spaces, porn sites, message boards, and forums that anyone can become a member in.


  • Facts About Submission (love) In Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Many folks seem confused about the subject of submission. Hopefully, this article will bring to light some needed wisdom and understanding concerning this issue and put to rest the culturally accepted folklore we hear about everyday in society about submission. By the way, this is not my wisdom, it comes from God, and I am just His messenger.


  • The Independent Minded, Married, Christian Woman
    [Relationships:Wedding] Can a married Christian woman who submits to her husband, and, who stays home to raise her family be an independent thinker? They certainly can! Many people believe, especially certain women that married Christian women cannot be independent thinkers. But this notion cannot be further from the truth. People are led to believe a certain way in their viewpoints, and think that what they perceive to be the truth is the one and only way.


  • The Rock of Love for Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Many marriages are unhappy because they are wishy-washy; full of unprincipled actions and desires, mixed with unmet emotional needs that aren't and can't be met, all because the marriage is based upon the foundation of self. Many couples stumble into marriage not knowing or caring what their responsibilities and purpose for the marriage are. But these are the things we need to figure out for ourselves so we can walk the love walk.


  • God's Word Reveals Who We Are and What We Are Not
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] The word of God undeniably reveals to us who we are and what we are not. The bible is not just a collection of words to use for our reading pleasure, but the word of God is our daily bread and in fact, life changing as we allow it to go to work in our lives. The word of God judges the heart and soul of a person. Those who read and study it are given the choice to judge themselves and make the necessary changes to enhance their life for the better.


  • Broken Promises, Lies, and Infidelity
    [Relationships:Wedding] If you're not really sure that that you can keep a promise to your spouse then don't make the promise! If you are the type of person who often makes promises, do what you say you're going to do and be a person your spouse can trust and believe in.


  • Love, Sex and Intimacy in Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] In scripture, a husband is commanded to love his wife. What do you think is going to happen if that love is not a sincere love for his wife? She will feel frustration, resentment, and anger, and she will have a very difficult time submitting herself to the man she married.


  • Pornography Addiction: What Can A Man Do?
    [Self-Improvement:Addictions] 1. Recognize The Cause of Your Addiction: First of all the most important thing you can do is figure out why you are addicted to pornography by recognizing what the root of the problem is. Do whatever it takes to bring it out in the open with yourself and then take the necessary steps to eradicate the sexual cravings from your mind. Do you think you can stop at anytime on your own free will? Easier said than done, right?


  • Loving Yourself: Are You A Caterpillar Or A Butterfly?
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] I believe our whole purpose on this earth is to love others with complete and true love. We certainly cannot love properly if we are hiding inside our insecurities and not really loving ourselves. Hiding behind a sea of emotions or a certain weakness will keep us from growing into the person we were meant to be.


  • Pornography Addiction: What Can a Wife Do?
    [Relationships:Wedding] First of all, don't give up on your marriage! Porn addiction doesn't have to mean the end to marriage. In fact, it is time to nurture your marriage with the tender loving care it so needs and deserves. You can actually learn from this and have a better marriage over it. I encourage you to put forth every effort to reinforce the bonds of trust and love that may have been broken between you and your husband.


  • Marriage is Like a Beautiful Flower Garden
    [Relationships:Marriage] Think of your marriage as a beautiful and dazzling flower garden. In an acre of astounding floral beauty, you and your husband have planted azaleas, roses, chrysanthemums, daisies, carnations, violets, geraniums, and several more varieties of your favorite flowers.


  • Loving Your Spouse With Wisdom
    [Relationships:Wedding] False teachings on marriage and loose morals in society have caused many couples to become bitter and apprehensive when loving one another. Society has lost the value of what real love is and it has tainted couples into sinful behavior.


  • It's Not To Late To Be The Spiritual Leader In Your Home
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] What happens in a home when the husband leads the household with the spiritual authority God gave him? How can a man become the spiritual leader in his home? What are the responsibilities of a spiritual leader?


  • What Does A Wife Want From Her Husband?
    [Relationships:Wedding] If my husband doesn't tell me his feelings, how can I give him what he wants and needs from me? Proper communication between couples is so very important, especially proper communication of feelings.


  • Spirituality - Enemies In Our Mind
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Many beliefs and ideas from the world teach us things that might be contrary to our conscience, and yet we still listen to these ideas and allow them to form a part of what we believe as truth. We can either grow with the culture or we can grow with God in His spiritual kingdom here on earth. This article will explore, in a nutshell, three major enemies within our mind. The complete free e-book on this topic can be found on my website.


  • Perseverance for Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Relationships are an important aspect of our life, especially the relationship we have with our spouse. This is precisely why God has given us a most special design for applying into marriage. Gods purpose and plan for us has no flaws and never changes like the culture of society does.


  • The Source of "True Marriage Healing"
    [Relationships:Marriage] The source of "true marriage healing" lies within the spiritual aspects of who we are. How do I know this? Because I've been to marriage counseling, and I have read all the self-help marriage books, and because, I did all the things "they say" that are supposed to help you love who you married. But the reality of it is folks, there is no magic pill or potion you can take, and there is no person, besides you, that is going to heal your marriage as it is meant to be healed.


  • The Nuts and Bolts of Marriage - Do You Qualify?
    [Relationships:Marriage] So you want to get married and maybe have a family later on down the road. Do you really know what you are getting yourself into? Are you ready to share a big part of yourself with your future spouse for the rest of your life? Marriage isn't about doing what "you" want. It is about doing what "you both" want.


  • Valentines Day - Flirting With Your Spouse?
    [Relationships:Enhancement] So what's the big deal about St. Valentine's Day? Well it is the day of love, romance and flirting. What about married couples? I mean, married couples can still sizzle and dazzle each other even if they have been married, five, ten or twenty years, right? So lets start flirting.


  • Proper Care and Feeding of Yourself
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] How is your relationship with others? How would you rate your marriage on a scale from one to ten, with ten being the best? Are you feeding everyone else first and then only getting the leftovers? If so then you are not properly caring for yourself or others. You have to eat first and then give everyone else your leftovers, which consequently multiply into abundance and even taste better.


  • 7 Ways To Earn Respect From Our Children
    [Home-and-Family:Parenting] Of course disciplining our children is a given in any home. But we need to ask ourselves if we are disciplining our children properly? Who rules the perch in your home? How often do your children tell you what THEY are going to do?


  • What Really Causes A Spouse To Cheat
    [Relationships:Affairs] I keep reading in various articles and in marriage self-help books that the reason a spouse cheats is because of something the other spouse did or didn't do? But this is incorrect information. To blame one spouse for the sexual indiscretions of the other only gets the cheater off the hook, so to speak. What a web of deceit we can weave. It's wrong folks.


  • How To Show The Woman You Married That You Love Her
    [Relationships:Marriage] What have you done lately to show the woman you married that you love her? Did you take her out to dinner? Maybe you bought her some flowers or chocolates? A man likes to do these things for a woman because it's easy and fast. But is your wife really appreciating the flowers and chocolates? In this article I have mentioned a few other useful tricks you can do to show your wife that you love her.


  • How To Treat Your Man Like A Man
    [Relationships:Marriage] Are you a controlling wife? Do you take your husband for granted? Most women don't realize it but they abuse their husbands daily just by their actions. Many women of today feel that marriage revolves solely around them and that their husband's are supposed to give them everything their heart desires. If we aren't getting what we want from our man could it be because we are not treating our man like a man? Stop pushing him around and he'll come around.


  • 5 Ways to Develop Your Child's Self Esteem
    [Self-Improvement:Self-Esteem] I have been profoundly blessed with three sons, ages 16, 17 and 21. They are almost all grown up, and it makes me absolutely miserable to think that in a few years I won't have my three big guys around forever and that saddens my heart. I'm very close with my sons because I have had the most wonderful opportunity to home educate them. My sons have never stepped foot in a public school. They are still virgins; they don't cuss, smoke, drink, or do drugs of any kind. They are polite, respectful, intelligent, and honest young men.


  • What Are You Giving Jesus For His Birthday This Year?
    [News-and-Society:Religion] Ask a majority of adults what Christmas means to them, and they will most certainly say the birth of Jesus Christ. But did you know that Jesus Christ wasn't even born on December 25? No one knows for sure when Jesus was really born, not even Biblical Scholars.


  • Vices and Virtues in Marriage - Temptation vs Self-Control
    [Self-Improvement:Addictions] Robert, a recovered alcoholic of three-months is invited to a friend's birthday party. His wife of ten years doesn't want Robert to go to a party where there is going to be alcohol but he goes anyway. Heavy drinking is going on and people are offering him drinks. Robert desperately wants to find reasons for having a beer. He wants a drink, he needs a drink, and the more he thinks about the rush it will give him the more justifiable it sounds. He rationalizes how one beer won't hurt. Robert gives in. An hour later he is drunk. He stumbles to his car and prepares to drive home. Robert never makes it home. The crash kills him instantly.


  • Vices and Virtues in Marriage - Jealousy vs Trust
    [Relationships:Marriage] Have you ever had to deal with a jealous husband or wife? Most marriages at some time or another go through a period of mistrust and jealousy when their spouse does something to merit mistrust. Maybe they flirted or maybe they had an affair or it could be that they didn't do anything at all to warrant distrust.


  • Vices and Virtues in Marriage - Faithfulness vs Adultery
    [Relationships:Marriage] Are we awarding our marriage with the importance it deserves or are we behaving lazy by not contributing the positive aspects of our self into the marriage? Ask your self. Who am I? What does my marriage mean to me? Am I done growing? Am I happy with me?


  • 5 Biblical Points on Spiritual Growth For Marriage
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Marriage takes two to make it a team. Are you a team player working towards the good in all areas of your marriage? Are you growing spiritually with your spouse? Are you allowing your faith to intervene in your marriage where it should?


  • Spiritual Cleanse For The Heart, Mind, and Soul
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] Often times when we don't feel well, we cleanse the body for physical health to prevent surgery, feel good, look younger, and live longer. What about our spiritual health? Did you know that if we cleanse the mind of unwanted toxins our physical health would also improve?


  • Bible Study - Slaves to Jesus or Slaves to Sin
    [News-and-Society:Religion] How can I stop sinning? It seems like I am always confessing my sins and yet they never go away. What am I doing wrong? This is a really loaded question, especially since we are not perfect individuals and we are all sinners. We will always have sin in our life and we will sin. But this certainly doesn't mean that some of us are not good people. It means that we don't understand the logistics of sin and how it all works in our life.


  • My Wife Won't Forgive Me! (Part 1 of 2)
    [Relationships:Affairs] In marriages that aren't so great to begin with, adultery is used as a weapon to manipulate and control the adulterer with. It is a strong weapon, wielded at the most opportune times to feel better about self, to get what you want, to seem like the good guy, and sometimes to destroy the marriage through divorce. But none of this is necessary.


  • How To "Really" Quit Smoking
    [Health-and-Fitness:Quit-Smoking] Quitting smoking is the hardest commitment you will ever make in your entire life. I know this because I've quit a lot of bad habits, including addiction to alcohol, and quitting smoking was by far the most difficult.


  • Want Tighter Butt Muscles? Women's Workout For The Derriere
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Want to know what you can do to tighten the Derriere that only takes ten minutes out of your day? That's what I thought. You can do these two simple exercises while you're washing the dishes or watching TV!


  • Ambition or Greed?
    [Self-Improvement:Spirituality] I don't believe in love at first sight - there is no such thing. What you're actually feeling is lust at first sight. The strong desire you feel for someone that you just met shows itself in the form of lust. If the person you desire is married or other wise unavailable to you in some way then it turns into lustful covetous and greedy desire.


  • Teenage Dating vs Courtship (Part 2 of 2)
    [Kids-and-Teens] What exactly is courtship? Courtship is young men and women seeking each other out for the purpose of finding a spouse. It is a sexually abstinent friendship that through the courting process bonds two people together while they both grow and learn to honor, respect, and love each other. The courting process involves the parents on both sides and the parents must approve and bless the courtship.


  • Teenage Dating vs Courtship (Part 1 of 2)
    [Kids-and-Teens] Do not let the culture hoodwink you into believing that you should participate in sexual relations before marriage. The whole idea of dating and everything that goes with it is so much of a heavy-laden burden, and as a young girl, you should not have to endure this crazy emotional roller coaster ride.


  • The Sexually Satisfied Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] Marriage is like a tricycle. One of the back wheels is the mental (emotional) area in marriage, another back wheel is for the physical (sexual), and the front wheel, which is the leader, is for the spiritual aspects of the marriage. If one of these facets of marriage is missing, what is going to happen? The marriage is going to be unbalanced and topple over.


  • Love vs Lust
    [Relationships:Love] There is a great contrast between love and lust. Lust is more of a sexual or greedy feeling, while love is more of a secure and content filled feeling we get from giving and receiving. Lust does not have to be something sexual, it can be a greedy desire for more money and power, etc. But for this article, I am using it in its sexual context.


  • Sermon On The Mount For Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] What do you think would happen with the husband and wife union if couples committed themselves dutifully to following the characteristics of the Sermon on the Mount? I think there would be way less divorce, how about you? Also, there would definitely be happier children in the household, wouldn't there?


  • Love Who You Married
    [Relationships:Love] I believe the word "love" is thrown around just a bit too nonchalantly. Don't you think? People say they love but do nothing to SHOW that love. Love needs action to complete its purpose. So when I say "love who you married" that means to provide of your self in the marriage. That IS what love is!


  • 5 Biblical Facts About Temptation
    [News-and-Society:Religion] Satan tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden, and Jesus in the desert. Guess what? Satan tempts you and I everyday too. Satan is nothing but a fallen angel gone bad. Satan is an evil spirit who disguises him self to us in deceiving ways. He tempts us into doing immoral things that make us want to live his way instead of God's way.


  • Marriage - 7 Reasons Why You Shouldn't Break It Off
    [Relationships:Marriage] In this article I have identified seven triggers in marriage that are often used for justification for divorce, but really, none of these seven things warrant divorce or provide any validation what so ever for divorce. 1. Sexless marriage.


  • Am I Married to a Bull?
    [Relationships:Marriage] What do you get when you pair two bulls together in one corral? An awful lot of head butting! A Marriage in this predicament will most likely head straight into the mud.


  • 8 Biblical Facts About Marriage
    [Relationships:Marriage] 1. Marriage is God's design. Genesis 2 18-24 God's created work was not complete until he made the beautiful woman. He could have made her out of the dust of the ground as he made man, but he chose to make her from the man's flesh and bones. Now why do you think that is?


  • Will the Glass Slipper Ever Fit?
    [Relationships:Marriage] Do opposites really attract? I believe there is some truth to this. At first the euphoria of a new relationship brings much elation and happiness, even in a relationship that is unpredictable as is with opposites. But after five years into the marriage will this now "old found love" still be alive and strong, and will these opposites still attract each other?


  • Saving Marriage After Adultery
    [Relationships:Affairs] Do you want your marriage nursed back to health? If you want your marriage restored it will take some effort on your part. Stop peering over the fence at your neighbor, and put your eyes back in your own yard where they belong.


  • A Healthy Marriage Relies on God's Indisputable Truths
    [Relationships:Marriage] A healthy marriage always relies on the foundation of honesty, trust, honor, respect and commitment. These undisputable truths are found in the bible. What is undisputable truths? God designed marriage to be indissoluble. The only disclaimer for marriage is if there is physical violence and any kind of abuse to a spouse. The latter is debatable, but God's indisputable truths is not. In other words, these are not my opinions or beliefs, but God's.


  • Forgive and Love a Cheating Spouse
    [Relationships:Affairs] Do you think it is the end of your marriage because your spouse had an affair? On the contrary it's time to nurture, cultivate, and cherish the marriage even more. It is time to start plucking out the mischievous weeds to make room for the tender new shoots.


  • Is Looking At Pornography The Same As Adultery?
    [Relationships:Sexuality] Pornography has snuck into our homes like Satan did with Eve in the Garden of Eden, tempting even the purest of heart. Some people have never thought about looking at porn before they had a computer, but now it somehow repeatedly gets in their view, and oops it happens.


  • Effective Communication
    [Relationships:Communication] Communication is an act of being a good listener and understanding what the other person is trying to say. Communication is a useful tool, in speech and in writing, for conveying information to others in everyday transactions. Anyone can become a skilled communicator and effectively interact with others. For most of us, it's probably easier to be the talker than the listener. But we should try to really listen to what the other person is saying or at least trying to say, and if we are at all confused at what we are hearing, we need to ask more questions!


  • Forget About Labels ~ Let The Sunshine In! Home Education
    [Reference-and-Education:Home-Schooling] I admire Parents today who have chosen not to entertain a child's senses by the traditional educational books of society, and un-school their children. It takes an incredible person to be able to unleash the traditions of society and culture and allow the positive freedom of the creative mind to go to work for itself.


  • Let God Be The Judge
    [News-and-Society:Religion] How can we love our neighbor when we are judging our neighbor? Why do we judge our neighbors, fellow Christian's, and friends? Who are we to judge the heart of another person? Why do we insist on giving blind opinions and erroneous judgment even when it is not warranted? I'll tell you why. If we can tear someone down it will certainly build us up?


  • Does God's Word Need A Disclaimer?
    [News-and-Society:Religion] A lot of people do it. They scamper away like little mice when someone preaches to them. If the sermon is in written form they still read it, but later email the writer with nasty comments about how bible thumpers should get a life.


  • Toxic Overload
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] A thirty-six-year-old construction worker withered in pain as the ambulance rushed him to the hospital. Andy's cramps were excruciating and he thought he was going to die. The doctor told him that his gall bladder would need to be surgically removed and there was no time to waste.


  • Overcoming Addiction - Addiction + Denial = Out of Control
    [Self-Improvement:Addictions] My addiction used to control me. It overwhelmed the person inside of me, and I became a stranger to my family, and to myself. All I cared about was having another drink. All I thought about was where and when I was going to get my next drink. My mind was totally and completely absorbed within my addiction, and I didn't even know it. I was proud, haughty and selfish. I was an alcoholic.




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