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.
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 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 3.2%) increased. Most
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 described as “love”. “Love” is
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
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