Reader Question: If I Divorce My Husband Will I Lose My Salvation? — To Love, Honor and Vacuum

If you fall out of love with your husband and decide to divorce him, will you lose your salvation? Every Monday I like to post a reader question, and today’s is a heavy one from a woman who thinks she has finally found true love–just not with her husband. And she wonders if divorcing her… via…

Seven Unexpected Scriptures to Improve Marriage – Kevin A Thompson (Seven)

7. “If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small.” (Proverbs 24.10) Marriages fail every day.  Without judging any marriage that dissolves, I want a different outcome.  I want Jenny and I to build our relationship in such a way that no outside force can negatively influence it.  While every day matters,…

The Great Deceiver

A visit from my cousin – My cousin, who lives in Johannesburg and came down for a pastor’s conference to little old Port Elizabeth, popped in for a visit last night.  I have not seen my cousin in about seven years, and that was for a funeral – prior to that, I cannot remember ever…

My deepest desire…

What is your deepest desire? What is the one thing in your life that if that were taken from you, your life would never be the same again?  For each of us, its something different, something unique, because God has made all of us different and unique. My deepest desire is this, To have an…

How to make your marriage fun…

Recently, I posted about the importance of having fun in your marriage.  And yes, it is important, but how does one go about doing that?  Well, first, it has to be a mindset.  Decide – very definitely – that whatever it is you are doing with your spouse, you are going to enjoy it and…

Day 24: Lessons from Infidelity

I am pleased to be able to say that I have not been through this.  I think this is the worst betrayal for a spouse – that someone you love and trust can take what is yours and give it to someone else.  I have always, since before hubby and I even married, said that…

Day 1: A Marriage that is Not of this World

What is a Christian marriage supposed to look like?  Does it, in fact, NEED to be different from the world?  Do we not put too much pressure on ourselves to confirm to a standard of what we think marriage should be like?  I really like what Dr Phil says in his book, Relationship Rescue.  With…

The Seasons of Marriage

I am so excited, I have just seen the most amazing post on the different seasons that marriages go through and it is so what I’ve tried to tell everyone all along (it’s so exciting when famous bloggers and authors totally agree with what you’ve said – kidding) – I read it at Unveiled Wife,…

The Importance of Love

Love is important! Why?  Because it is the glue that holds all together.  And in today’s crazy world, where successful marriages are rare, it seems we need to work more intensely on loving each other more completely.  Ever notice, how when a couple get divorced, and the one partner remarries?  Ever notice all that anger…