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.
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The Erosion of Marriage
The ‘crude marriage rate’ [the number of marriages per 1000 of the estimated population] for 2019 was at its’ lowest ever point at 4.5. The number of marriages occurring in 2019 being 113,815. Provisional data for 2020 show the effect of the situation we live in with only 37,813 marriages occurring between January and June and were registered by the end of August – the 6 month’s average for the last 5 years being 55,492. Over the decades the percentage
Why should the church seek to build strong marriages?
Then, what should we do as a church? Marriage is God’s designed and is formed around two principles: covenant keeping and a triune relationship. Divorce is not as common among Christians as non-Christians, however when it does occur it can bring shame to the church and to God’s name. Many Christians buy into the lie that marriage is only about two people loving each other and people can fall in love and out of love, thus the gender
Kind words are like honey
Kind words are like honey— sweet to the soul and healthy for the body. Proverbs 16:24 [NLT] Some years ago, my wife and I were asked by a student at a Bible School in Latvia to pray for her friend whose husband, whilst going to church himself, had banned her from going and was also continually denigrating her, he also encouraged their young daughter to denigrate her as well. We were also told that when people from the church
Boldly
We boldly need to continue to teach, equip and correct using all scripture Over these last months the attack on the Christian Church and the inspiration and authority of the Bible has not abated, despite the pandemic and the continuing acts of terrorism around the world. Some in the Church believe that we have brought this upon ourselves when scripture has been made culturally understandable to the society of today; when this is done sometimes the biblical message is
