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.
HAVE FUN & BRING JOY TO OTHERS
HAVE FUN & BRING JOY TO OTHERS Marriage Week will shortly be with us, and it is a time to have fun as we honour and celebrate marriage and maybe also start to increase our ministry to marriages. As we go about our lives and our ministry, and all in the church are in ministry whatever their life situation, life can be difficult from time to time particularly when all cares have not been passed to the
God’s plan for marriages
God’s plan for marriages We live in challenging times as much of the media is filled with negative reports of what the enemy is doing and seeking to do through our governments and elsewhere. In our desire to fight back these evils we must ensure that we do not lose heart or grow weary “Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary. So then,
Our Need To Stand Firm
Our Need To Stand Firm On God's Word In John 10.10 Jesus warns us that “The thief comes to steal, kill and destroy” and our spiritual enemy has been seeking to destroy marriage and marriages since Adam and Eve came together. Satan has direct opposition to God and thus all that He created for His glory and the good of His creation. God said that “it was not good for man to be alone” and formed woman
An ATTITUDE to be encouraged – an ATTITUDE of GRATITUDE
ENCOURAGING AN ATTITUDE of GRATITUDE Whilst the word ‘gratitude’ is not seen in many English translations of the Bible it is a theme that runs through both the Old and the New Testament. Gratitude is a major element of any relationship. The meaning of the word ‘gratitude’ in Websters Dictionary of 1828: GRAT'ITUDE, n. [L. gratitudo, from gratus, pleasing. See Grace.] An emotion of the heart, excited by a favor or benefit received; a sentiment of kindness
Activating the fullness of God’s love in marriages
Activating the fullness of God's love in marriages Looking around us there is little in our nation, or the world, today that was ever a part of God’s perfect plan for mankind. In the order of creation God created man then government and then the church. With the creation of man, man that was sinless at the time God saw and spoke out “It is not good that man should be alone; I will make him a
Marriage – part of the infrastructure of the church
Marriage - part of the infrastructure of the church. It sometimes seems that Martin Luther’s opening words to his work “The Estate of Marriage” where he said “How I dread preaching on the estate of marriage! I am reluctant to do it because I am afraid if I once get really involved in the subject it will make a lot of work for me and for others.” apply in the thinking of parts of the church today.
