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.
The Theme for Marriage Week 2025
The theme for Marriage Week this year is “Marriage a genesis of hope, a fountain of renewal in your journey towards lasting love!” This theme emphasizes the idea that marriage between a man and a woman as designed by God, can be the genesis, the foundation, of hope and the motivation, stimulation for renewal in life, a transformation of the heart. It motivates couples to grow in their love that endures time and will also serve as a Godly
Marriage Creates a New Family
“God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. And God blessed them and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply.””(Gen. 1:27–28) In God’s creation, maleness and femaleness are a central part, together with their being complimentary and both being made in God’s image. God’s word shows that, sexual union only occurs within marriage and giving the potential for new life, new fruit. The sexual
The Importance of Reclaiming Marriage
“Marriage is not a human invention; it is a divine revelation. Its design never was our own made-up arrangement of infinite malleability. It was given to us, at the beginning of all things, as a brightly shining fixity of eternal significance. We might not always live up to its true grandeur. None of us does so perfectly. But we have no right to redefine it, and we have every reason to revere it.” “I yearn for a recovery of
Communication
From what we see and hear in God’s creation, He has created many forms of communication. But, for us, He chose that our primary means of communication is the speaking out of words! The heavens and the earth were created by God, with each part of creation being initiated by the words, “And God said....” After creating Adam and seeing it was wrong for him to be alone, God created Eve and, as Gen 1:28 “And God blessed them.
Facing the ongoing challenge
Across the nation, some churches are experiencing a revival as well-known prophets foretold. Whilst this is happening, some churches are face declining numbers. Facing the ongoing spiritual attack, the challenge of the "world" is a universal experience, irrespective of whether your church is experiencing revival, decline, or simply remaining unchanged. From the census data, Christianity dropped from 67.3% to 43.9% between census years, while other religions like Buddhism (1.9% to 2.4%), Hinduism (0.5% to 2.7%), and Islam (1.5% to
What is “love”?
So, what is love? Two “love”-related events are noted on the February calendar. February 14th is Valentine’s Day, and February 17th is Random Acts of Kindness Day (for us this should be every day) Perhaps this is a naive question, but what is love, really? Between the world, woke interpretations and, regrettably, the English language (and probably others) today’s understanding of the word “love” is badly distorted. In the English language, a wide variety of different feelings are
