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How Devotions Almost Broke Up My Marriage

Jess MacCallum
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My wife and I came from very different spiritual backgrounds…and temperaments…and expectations. A bit of the “opposites attract” thing. So of course when we got married the idea of devotionals had totally different meanings for each of us. I was pretty much the straight-forward Evangelical of the crowd: we get up early (like Jesus), we…

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Two Dimensions of Marriage

There are two questions we can ask within marriage that will take us to two entirely different dimensions. We have to choose which dimension we want to live in. The two questions are these: How can I bless you?” Or: How can I get my own way?” If we live in the second dimension (“How…

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When Your Spouse Can’t Meet all of Your Needs

To be filled up. That is what we all seek in life. We need our emotional tank filled up. Our physical tank filled up with touches and affection. We also need our spiritual tank filled up.  When we get married, without meaning to, we can look to our spouse to fill up our tank. At…

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Growing Up in Marriage

Author and speaker David Erickson recently said, “There is a child in me always seeking to destroy the man that I am.” As I sat with Josh and Katy a couple of weeks ago, I remembered what David said because it fit Josh and Katy perfectly. They had only been married a little over a year,…

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Dangerous Indifference

“I feel like we’re nothing more than roommates!” I hope I’m not the only woman who has ever said that. Or, the only woman who has felt her revealed heart pierced by a husband who glanced up from his video game, the back of the sports page or his fishing lure to say, “What?” Or…

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How Devotions Almost Broke Up My Marriage

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