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Are Christians in healthy marriages just lucky? How do two people following the same “courtship” path end up with different outcomes? How does one person end up in a safe, respectful, committed union while the other ends up in a wounding, betraying, abandoning relationship? If faith doesn’t secure safety and long-term commitment, how should Christians…
Married Christian, just because your marriage weathered high conflict doesn’t mean every couple with high conflict can address their specific problems and have a good marriage. The longer I’m in this space, the more I see Christians pulling from their personal experience in a high-conflict marriage and claiming all marriage hardship can be addressed and resolved. They might say…
Does God require our suffering? High-control, works-based Christianity says our faith is not legitimate if it’s not accompanied by struggle or drudgery. Expressions like “the price of the anointing” “salvation is free, but the anointing is not”1 might not be familiar to all Christians, but those with evangelical/fundamentalist/conservative roots are super familiar. The “God requires suffering to bring…
Today’s our 15th wedding anniversary. We started our marriage journey with one person allergic to difficult convos and the other attracted to them like a moth to a flame. Suffice it to say, it was a bumpy couple of years. When I created Intentional Today as a marriage blog many years ago, I aimed to…
They said “marriage is a mirror.” That the state of ones marriage is a reflection of God’s love and engagement and you will know your devotion to Him by your dedication to your marriage. They told you we discern God’s blessings on people based on how well their marriage is doing. And they meant the…
Imagine sitting through lectures, receiving critical education, and the only way to pass the class is by not following the core principles being taught. In the real world, how long would that subject be taught its current form? The self-contradiction within a complementarian marriage is that a marriage is only good when couples don’t follow…