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.
Setting aside busyness
The end of the year and start of a new year, busyness is not far away, and for some it has already started! One of the most common words spoken out at Christmas are “peace on earth; goodwill toward men” from Luke 14. In some churches there is the greeting “peace of Christ to you” and the response given is usually “… and with you”. These are well meant sentiments but are they being lived out daily through our
Joy, The Joy of Marriage
During Marriage Week there is a great opportunity to strengthen or rebuild a strong marriage culture within the church and beyond in the community. We can add “fuel” to rekindle a vibrant marriage culture in a society that no longer understands what marriage is, much less what it is for. During Marriage Week honour, celebrate and teach God’s design and purpose for marriage. This year the theme is “The Joy of Marriage” which could be a theme to preach
Marriage is God’s design, seek to live it His way
In the Church we strive to equip all the people in the Church to have fulfilling lives living out the lives and roles that God has planned for them as kingdom people. There are times when we need to address our comments or indeed create facilities so that a particular group can be ministered to e.g. children’s or youth ministry or give messages that may indeed be applicable to the whole church but have a particular focus on guiding
Preparing for the Marriage of the Lamb?
Preparing for the Marriage of the Lamb? You do not need high powered equipment to see that the world around us is in a seemingly unstable position and maybe in crisis. This likely being caused by the greater adoption of non-biblical practices in our nation and around the world. Regrettably some of these practices have been adopted by followers of Christ, practices that they have adopted in order to gain acceptance in the world around
Sign of the Times we Live in
Over the years/decades there have been the individuals or groups who seek to write God out of various parts of our society or indeed out of our nation. Where this has happened, we have seen a subsequent erosion of values/morals/behaviour and in some cases, what was illegal now being legalised. Marriage and family values have not been exempted from this. Unless we are careful, we and our families can be overwhelmed by the violence that seems to be
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Our Need To Submit
In some ways it does not seem possible that in a few days we will be at the start of summer and a few weeks away is Christmas a time when many Christians remember and celebrate the birth and life of our Saviour and also of many family get togethers. Regrettably for some it becomes a time of stress, the reasons are many from busyness, illness, the loss of a loved one, unforgiveness ...to mention but a few.
