Self Help

How to Divorce-Proof Your Marriage During the Pandemic. From world economies to married life, the experts tell us that the Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare existing problems, tearing off bandaids to reveal unhealed and even festering wounds. For many couples, a split during the pandemic is inevitable and right, while for others, a few painless measures are all that’s needed to keep your marriage strong through these trying times.

Coming from a Divorced Home Divorce affects the majority of married couples today—some 75% of couples have one or both spouses who come from a divorced or blended family. This week we discussed a few of the unspoken but very common ways that divorce affects individuals and the marriages they occupy.

Five Disciplines to Build in Every Man. The end goal of the Christian life is to become the man that God wants us to be. We do this by allowing his vision, mission, purposes, and goals to shape our lives. One way we can lead men to this is through discipline. A discipline, or in our case “spiritual discipline,” is a training activity that helps to shape and mold character over an extended period of time that accelerates and focuses the process. Spiritual discipline is the”strict training” that Paul was talking about 1 Corinthians 9:25.

“Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training.”—1 Corinthians 9:25

Build on What Is Working in Your Sexual Intimacy. I also, though, think it is vitally important to build on what is already working sexually in your relationship. It can become overwhelming and heavy to focus only on what is skewed or broken, so by all means, show yourself and your spouse some grace and affirmation on what the two of you do well when you’re naked with each other.