Tag: biblical wife
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Helping your husband hold fast to you…
The “leaving” found in Genesis 2:24 is a verb that carries profound implications beyond just physical separation. Likewise, the “holding” implies more than just physical intimacy. In reality, there are three internal changes that must happen within your husband resulting in him leaving his father and his mother. I believe that by understanding these changes,…
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To Single Christian Ladies: Meditations on Ephesians 5:22-33
I want to share with you my meditations on Ephesians 5. I’ve been pondering these verses for a long time and believe that God’s wisdom here can help single Christian women prevent many hardships and tears. To my single Christian sisters who love the Lord Jesus, are faithful to Him, and seriously praying for a…
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Sex and Spiritual Warfare in Marriage: Reflections on 1 Corinthians 7:5
One area of life constantly under attack by Satan is the Christian’s sex life. Whether someone is a single Christian or a married Christian, Satan will bring temptations in order to destroy the Christian testimony with sexual sins. Sexual sins are lured by uncontrolled sexual desires (James 1:14-15) and come from the heart (Matthew 15:19).…
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Forgiving And Moving Past The Hurt In Our Marriages
There was an older lady who shared with me the troubles during her earlier years of marriage. Though her husband is treating her much better now (as he has matured in the Lord), she still has so much hurt in her heart from the past physical and emotional abuse. “I feel like a wall that…
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It Takes A Strong Woman of Faith To Submit To Her Husband
Growing up in a very patriarchal culture, my mind was scarred with the culture’s negative connotations of submission as a sign of weakness and mindless subservience. Conveniently enough, the American feminist culture empowered my own fight to some how free myself from all male superiority, cultural restrictions on women, and second-class gender roles. This was…
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Is it Biblical for the wife to work outside the home?
It may not seem like a big deal for a lot of 21st century wives to be working outside the home. But, as a Christian wife who is employed full-time outside my home, I was stopped in my tracks years ago coming across the verse above in Titus 2 where it says that a woman…
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The Excellent Wife: Her To-Do List
God’s Word is a treasure chest for all practical things on this topic, but my favorite passage is Proverbs 31:10-31. In context, we have a loving mother teaching her son (Proverbs 31:1) the distinguishing traits of an excellent wife (Proverbs 31:10). God is so gracious to us wives as to give us Proverbs 31:10-31 in…
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Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” Genesis 2:18 (ESV)
There was nothing I could say to justify myself in light of this Scripture; I could not even let my husband’s sins and failures justify my sins.