Welcome to our last and final post of The April Maura Marriage Series. As we have been going through The Meaning of Marriage, we started from eye opening statistics about marriage and divorce to disclosing the great secret of marriage and ending with how to...
Well welcome to our last chapter of The Meaning of Marriage: Chapter 8 - Sex and Marriage. This is a topic that isn't necessarily getting a lot of attention these days. Sex alone is, but sex and marriage? Not so much. Every person has their own perspective of sex. We...
Can you believe it? After this blog post, we are only one chapter away from finishing the book The Meaning of Marriage. I can't really believe time has already gone this fast, and that we are already at this point. I can start to feel it in my bones, that we are...
Singleness and Marriage We can learn a lot from one another whether we are single or whether we are married. Our hearts are still the same at the core no matter our marital "status." We are all longing for that deep intimate connection. There is a deep part of us...
In the previous post, I mentioned how a wife is a strong helper and a husband is the headship. They both carry out distinct giftings into the meaning of Marriage. We're going to go a little deeper into each purpose and see them come together in a beautiful union. In...
"I really don't understand him, I mean I try to understand, but I just don't get the way he thinks." I don't know about you, but this can be subtle thought process that creeps in every now and again. I so desperately want to know my husband and understand his...
"The Great Problem" This is a subtitle in Chapter 5 of The Meaning of Marriage. When I read the header, I was instantly intrigued. "What could the great problem be??" I asked myself. When I began reading, I had to re-read it out loud to my husband, because it was just...
The power of love have a incredible nature to heal and renew hearts that have been damaged and broken for a long time, leaving us with our imperfections. But when we get married, that person we love actually has this uncanny influence to take part in our renewal of...
Towards the end of the last post I wrote on how having a common purpose is what actually drives the friendship in our marriages. So what kind of purpose is there behind marriage? And what do the overall mission of our marriages look like? We get to narrow down our...
We've all seen it before on our Facebook and Instagram feed when a dear friend of ours gets married: "I am so thankful that I get to marry to my best friend." For some marriages yes, that statement couldn't be more true. For others, that could be far from the truth....
