Sinai Covenant and Marriage Covenant

Posted on Friday 11 September 2009. Filed under: freedom, mental health, relationship | Tags: , |

Sinai Covenant and Marriage Covenant
It is an enlightening exercise to compare the Sinai covenant with the marriage covenant by interpreting the Ten Commandments as ten principles of conduct for married people.
Paul Stevens has produced a most perceptive comparison between the two covenants by means of the following table:
Covenant Between                           Covenant Between
Israel and Yahweh                          Wife and [...]

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Fireproof Your Marriage

Posted on Saturday 17 January 2009. Filed under: movie, relationship | Tags: , , |

I wonder if the FIREPROOF movie, starring Kirk Cameron, will get to New Zealand any time soon? Judging by the trailers and other videos online, it looks a good movie.
I like these weblinks: http://www.fireproofmymarriage.com/needhelp.php
Worth a check out too.
Blessing on your and your marriage,
Johanna * Mark

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Sacred Marriage

Posted on Monday 24 November 2008. Filed under: faith, freedom, relationship | Tags: , |

Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas
Zondervan  ISBN: 0310242827
The Book’s Message
This is not another “how to build a better marriage” book. Rather, it is a book on how the struggles and challenges of marriage can shape us and change us in profoundly spiritual ways.
Marriage is even more than a sacred covenant.
If our hearts are attuned to what [...]

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Look After Your Marriage

Posted on Saturday 5 July 2008. Filed under: counselling, mental health, relationship | Tags: , , , , |

As a mother/father, wife/husband, and woman/man, the best thing you can do is to nurture and care for your marriage, your prime relationship on this earth.
Without a secure relational base, the family frays around the edges.
Treat your honey as your best friend – watch your tone of voice, how you request things (to be done), how [...]

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Moving Your Marriage Forward

Posted on Tuesday 25 March 2008. Filed under: counselling, mental health, relationship | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

Moving Your Marriage Forward
-        by Johanna & Mark Whittaker, © March 2008, www.2Restore.wordpress.com  

·       Don’t keep unburying (exhuming) the past. Leave the past in the past. You can’t change it, so choose to move on. Remember, you’re on the same side.
·       Are you committed to the commitment made on your wedding day (and many days [...]

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Divorce Remedy

Posted on Wednesday 19 March 2008. Filed under: Current Quote, mental health, relationship | Tags: , , , |

Again we quote Michele Weiner-Davis – if only she lived closer to New Zealand

The Divorce Remedy:
The Proven Seven-Step Program for Saving Your Marriage

By Michele Weiner-Davis
Chapter One – The Not-So-Great Escape
People who are unhappy in their marriages often speak of feeling trapped. They yearn to be free from the tension, loneliness, constant arguments or deafening silence [...]

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