Below you will find our 6 most recent articles relating to marriage and family from Marriage Australia.
Dive into our previous articles for valuable insights and practical tips that are aimed at building and strengthening Christ centred marriages.
Join with others to honour and celebrate marriages during Marriage Week, the second week in September each year, we make available many resources to help you promote your event and your effective ministry to marriages of Gods design.
October Prayer for Marriages
Praying for those Working in the Areas of Health & Sciences The primary meaning of science, as given in Webster, is: "Knowledge of principles and causes: ascertained truths or facts." Galileo Galilei is quoted as saying: "The glory and greatness of Almighty God are marvellously discerned in all his works and divinely read in the open book of heaven. For let no one believe that reading the lofty concepts written in
Lust – Misdirected Desires
Lust when a misdirected desire – is being used as a weapon against the church, marriage and family A common modern dictionary meaning of lust is: “Lust is defined as a very strong sexual desire or an intense longing for something. It can also refer to passionate desires for various things, such as power or food.” However in many mindsets the meaning of lust is sexual temptation Scripture uses the word “lust” more broadly than modern dictionaries.
Prayer for marriage ~ September
Charity workers who work directly with clients experiencing issues such as trauma or severe mental health challenges, are at particular risk, as they hear their stories and work to ensure that both they and clients are safe. Please pray that their spouse and family would work to ensure that the home is a calm, safe environment capable of washing away stress and that those employed in these sectors would, most importantly, have the ability to
Pornography – porneia, πορνεία
Pornography does not honour God and does not honour marriage. It destroys relationships! The word pornography historically comes from the Greek words porni (“prostitute”) and graphein (“to write”). Originally the word was used to describe any work of art or literature depicting the life of prostitutes. In more modern use, pornographie appears in an 1800 French treatise on prostitution, and this French usage is the likely basis for our use of it in English today. Today it has taken
Let Marriage Be Held In Honour By All
There is much to guide the people of the church to lead a Godly life with the inspired, written word within Hebrews 13. Focussing on the word “honour” in the opening of verse 13:4, “Let Marriage Be Held in Honour among all,” “honour” being translated from the Greek word “τίμιος.” We see that from Strong’s Number: g5093. “τίμιος timios; including the comparative τιμιώτερος timiōteros; and the superlative τιμιώτατος timiōtatos; from 5092; valuable, i.e. (objectively) costly, or (subjectively) honored, esteemed,
Marriage and Divorce 2025
The ABS issued the 2025 statistics on the 28th July. One unspoken headline is that 40,748 children under the age of 16 were affected by these divorces making a total of 214,637 between 2021 and 2025. These children will potentially grow up with a fractured view of what marriage is! Marriages The total number of registered marriages for the year was 118,804 the number according to God’s design was 114,168. This is a drop of 2040 compared to 2024,
