When it comes to money, we often fixate on more. The Israelites weren’t all that much different, but God worked to turn Israel into a generous nation. Consider how He shaped their lives and what it might reveal about how He might transform us today.
When couples don’t learn how to handle conflicts well, they end up tearing down the very person they committed their lives to. And because marriage is so intimate, words said in anger and conflicts that turn ugly hurt more than in any other relationship. If your conflicts don’t get resolved, there may be one or more of these three problems getting in the way.
Many people are naturally encouraging with their friends. And they’re polite and uplifting to clerks, servers, and strangers. But often the filter comes off when they walk through their front door, and their spouse gets the worst of their words. Couples may think that their biggest problem is that thing they can’t agree on, but often it’s the way they speak with one another that can do the most damage. The Bible helps us rethink how we communicate with our partner.
Sometimes we avoid saying things in order to avoid burdening or hurting our spouse, but when hard conversations are regularly avoided, it can create distance in a marriage. This post looks at how to communicate honestly, graciously, and openly even when what you have to say is difficult.
When a spouse fails to listen well, the problems that were signaled with cues and comments early on grow into something much bigger, and their partner can be left feeling unheard and unloved. This post looks at how to improve listening and reflect the way that God Himself sees and hears us.
The Promised Land matters to Christians, not because we’re waiting to inherit a strip of land in the Middle East, but because the promise of land always pointed to something greater: the establishment of God’s people dwelling in God’s presence under the rule of God’s King.
When husbands and wives disagree, what do biblical headship and submission look like? The Bible offers more than slogans, giving couples principles for exercising leadership, expressing disagreement, and seeking a path forward.
Through an earth-bound happy ending, Job’s final chapter teaches important lessons about eternal life. They’re the very lessons we’re to cling to when trials come. What made Job’s suffering so hard was that he didn’t know how his story would end. Thanks to him, we can know how ours will.
More and more about our world feels senseless and unjust. And then when a crisis hits in our own personal circumstances, it only strengthens the doubts: Does God know what He’s doing? An encounter with God pictured in the Book of Job gives us some truths to hang onto when the pain is deep and life doesn’t make sense.
What does Elihu teach us about suffering? While Job's three friends offer flawed counsel, Elihu leaves us with three questions that can reshape how we understand suffering, lament, and spiritual growth.