A Ministry of Woodland Community Church
Helping Married Couples connect with one another, and with God.
The glowworm is not the only insect to produce its own light. If you take a glowworm and give it wings, it’s called a firefly. If you take grace and give it wings, it’s called forgiveness–and it is forgiveness that takes God’s grace to the sky. In the same way that wings offer the firefly freedom from … Continue reading What We Get Wrong About Forgiveness
Words to Grow On For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline. 2 TIMOTHY 1:7 You don't have to have money to keep romance alive in a marriage. But you do have to be thoughtful. GARY CHAPMAN Set the Scene God created us with a capacity to … Continue reading The First Time for Everything Date
Ryne Duren, former pitcher for the New York Yankees, liked to intimidate batters. He became known as the patron saint of the psych-out. He knew how to mentally harass opposing batters, dusting them off with an assortment of wildly launched pitches. Unfortunately, a similar thing can happen in our homes, although instead of a baseball, … Continue reading Shun Verbal Dust-Offs
Every cell phone user has experienced it at some point, and one company has built an entire advertising campaign around it: While you are speaking to a spouse, a business contact, or a friend, the connection breaks—only you don’t know it immediately. You continue to talk until you sense something is wrong and finally ask, … Continue reading Learn to Listen
If you want to touch your wife deeply, look into her soul through her eyes. She’s longing for intimate conversation! Touching base by phone is fine, but for a woman, that’s like watching an old black-and-white TV. One of her top romantic needs is to be heard and understood by her man. She longs for … Continue reading Talking… Face to Face
Scripture tells us that Rahab, the prostitute from Jericho who hid the Israelite spies (6:25), continued to live among God’s people and eventually became an ancestor of Jesus Christ (see Matt. 1:5).You have to wonder: What did she tell her Hebrew husband about her past? Any discussion of sensitive material from your past must occur … Continue reading How to Share Your Past with Your Mate
Marriage has enough surprises without a spouse putting up a “No Trespassing” sign and saying, “I’m not going to talk about the issues from my past that have shaped my life.” If you want to truly know your spouse, then you must get into those issues and create a deeper level of understanding and compassion between the … Continue reading Talk out Past Issues
Sometimes I don’t want to talk to or listen to my wife. Even though we’ve been married since 2001 and I’ve served as a marriage pastor since 2006, I admit I sometimes strongly dislike communicating and resolving disagreements. The reality is, most married couples don’t love to communicate or resolve conflict. We’re not good at it, it’s … Continue reading Are You Good at Communicating? Communication 101
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