Refining Fire of Marriage

Peter Experienced Refining Fire : 

Peter Experienced Refining Fire 1 Peter 4:12-13 (NLT) Dear friends, don’t be surprised at the fiery trials you are going through, as if something strange were happening to you. Instead, be very glad—for these trials make you partners with Christ in his suffering, so that you will have the wonderful joy of seeing his glory when it is revealed to all the world.

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Marriage is a Covenant: “a binding and solemn agreement”

We Draw a Line : 

We Draw a Line

James 3:2 “We all stumble in many ways.” : 

James 3:2 “We all stumble in many ways.”

Marriage – Turning Stumbling Sinners into Holy Saints : 

Marriage – Turning Stumbling Sinners into Holy Saints

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MARRIAGE AND RESPECT

Get an Eye Check Up : 

Get an Eye Check Up Matthew 7:3-5 (NLT) “And why worry about a speck in your friend’s eye when you have a log in your own? How can you think of saying to your (spouse), ‘Let me help you get rid of that speck in your eye,’ when you can’t see past the log in your own eye? Hypocrite! First get rid of the log in your own eye; then you will see well enough to deal with the speck in your (spouse’s) eye.

Marriage and Selflessness : 

Marriage and Selflessness

Marriage and Acceptance : 

Marriage and Acceptance

Marriage: Spiritual Discipline : 

Marriage: Spiritual Discipline Hebrews 12:11 (ESV) for the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

Marriage: Seasoning for Heaven : 

Marriage: Seasoning for Heaven “Everyone will be salted with fire.” Mark 9:49