By Joni BoydWednesday 11 Sep 2024Christian LivingReading Time: 2 minutes
It’s Marriage Week and we wanted to take the opportunity to round up some of our favourite marriage content. Because marriage is worth the investment!
Key points
- For a marriage to thrive, both the husband and the wife need to intentionally invest in the relationship.
- Marriage can be hard to make time to work on our marriages, here’s your chance to take a minute and explore these resources.
- We’ve gathered our favourite marriage-investing content, to help you build on your most important relationship.
- Spend more time in the Word as a couple. Subscribe to access all Hope 103.2 devotionals on YouVersion and on the Hope 103.2 app.
All marriages are different.
In the same way that no two individuals are identical, neither are two marriages. Nevertheless, there’s one thing all marriages have in common: the fact that for a marriage to thrive, both the husband and the wife need to intentionally invest in the relationship.
We’ve gathered our favourite marriage-investing content, to help you build on your most important relationship.
Seven Principles of a Successful Relationship
Dr. John Gottman’s groundbreaking research studied over 3,000 couples across several decades to uncover the secrets of a happy relationship. Read more.
Beyond ‘The Spark’: Sustaining Meaningful Connection in Marriage
Want to keep ‘the spark’ alive in your relationship? Focus on cultivating intimacy, passion and commitment for a thriving relationship. Read more.
3 Habits of a Happy Marriage
Happy marriages don’t just happen, they’re built, and are a reflection of the habits that undergird them, day-in and day-out. Read more.
Healthy Individuals Create Healthy Marriages
The health of a marriage is determined by individual health, so we need to care for our emotional, mental, physical and spiritual fitness. Read more.
Better Marriage for Australia
Through Better Marriages Australia, John and Heather McAlpine want to help you and your spouse to grow stronger together. John and Heather told Hope Mornings about the keys to making your marriage better, why you would want to do that, and how the Invest Inspire Ignite conference in Sydney can help.
Listen to Heather and John’s conversation with Hope Mornings in the listener below.
Love is the Secret Ingredient – Morning Devotions
God has apparently ‘hardwired’ us to ‘feel’ love. But love, especially in marriage, should be more than just feeling. This is God’s kind of love. Read more.
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life [Book Review]
To move “beyond order” is to move beyond rules for the sake of rules, says Jordan Peterson in his new book. Read more.
Spend Time Together in the Word
Reading the Bible together is a powerful way to invest in your marriage.
Whether you choose to follow a reading plan together or check in regularly to discuss what you’ve read, the Hope 103.2 devotionals on YouVersion and the Hope 103.2 app are a great place to start. Read more.
Want to spend more time in the Word together? Subscribe to access all Hope 103.2 devotionals on YouVersion.
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