making your marriage great
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Doctor to patient’s wifeDoctor to patient’s wife::““Mam, I don’t like the Mam, I don’t like the
way your husband looks’.way your husband looks’.
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WomanWoman::““Neither do I, but he is Neither do I, but he is really good to the kidsreally good to the kids”.”.
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Marriage Report CardMarriage Report Card• Over all Over all
AA++• HusbandHusband• WifeWife
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How Being a Strong Christian How Being a Strong Christian Will Help You Have A Happy Will Help You Have A Happy
MarriageMarriage• ChristiansChristians are concerned about others. are concerned about others.• ChristiansChristians practice love. practice love.• ChristiansChristians want the best for others. want the best for others.• ChristiansChristians have a positive sexual ethic. have a positive sexual ethic.• Christians Christians can forgive.can forgive.
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How Being a Strong Christian How Being a Strong Christian Will Help You Have A Happy Will Help You Have A Happy
MarriageMarriage• Christians Christians make good fathers and make good fathers and
mothers.mothers.• ChristiansChristians provide for their own. provide for their own.• ChristiansChristians are kind. are kind.• ChristiansChristians are unselfish. are unselfish.
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Make A CommitmentMake A Commitment• “ “Till death do us part.”Till death do us part.”• The Case for MarriageThe Case for Marriage• 86% of the people who said that 86% of the people who said that
they were unhappy were happy five they were unhappy were happy five years later.years later.
• Commitment lets us work through Commitment lets us work through problems.problems.
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Make it a PriorityMake it a Priority• Continue to work at marriage.Continue to work at marriage.• If you do not love each other, when If you do not love each other, when
the kids leave,--- you will be lost.the kids leave,--- you will be lost.• The greatest thing you can do for The greatest thing you can do for
your children is to love your spouse.your children is to love your spouse.
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Make Marriage Fun!Make Marriage Fun!• Some middle age crisis are because Some middle age crisis are because
all the fun has gone out of marriage. all the fun has gone out of marriage. It is all work and no play! It is all work and no play!
• Enjoy each other. Enjoy each other. • Ecclesiastes 9:9: “Enjoy life with Ecclesiastes 9:9: “Enjoy life with
the wife of your youth.”the wife of your youth.”• Enjoy sex: Song of Solomon.Enjoy sex: Song of Solomon.• Learn to have fun with little money.Learn to have fun with little money.
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Learn to Communicate, Learn to Communicate, Talk, and Fight!Talk, and Fight!
• Learn to Learn to listen. listen. • Learn to Learn to talktalk..• Be Be friendsfriends first! first!• Learn to Learn to fight fairfight fair..
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My wife & I never fightMy wife & I never fight . . .. . .
““But sometimes you But sometimes you can hear us can hear us
reasoning things out reasoning things out for several blocks.”for several blocks.”
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Deal with your Demons!Deal with your Demons!• Find out what you are doing to Find out what you are doing to
harm your marriage and heal it.harm your marriage and heal it.• Financial irresponsibilityFinancial irresponsibility• TemperTemper• PornographyPornography• Substance AbuseSubstance Abuse• You name it!You name it!
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Have God at the center Have God at the center of your life of your life
From God we learn the marriage From God we learn the marriage skills of:skills of:–KindnessKindness–ForgivenessForgiveness–Unconditional LoveUnconditional Love–FaithfulnessFaithfulness
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The love of Christ and the The love of Christ and the church is the model for us!church is the model for us!
25 “25 “Husbands, love your wives, just as Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her himself up for her 26 26 to make her holy, to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, water through the word, 27 27 and to and to present her to himself as a radiant present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and any other blemish, but holy and blameless.”blameless.”
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The love of Christ and the The love of Christ and the church is the model for us!church is the model for us!
28 28 “ “In this same way, husbands In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. wife loves himself. 29 29 After all, no After all, no one ever hated his own body, but one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— Christ does the church— 30 30 for for we are members of his body.” we are members of his body.”
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