Saturday, January 20, 2007
A Message From the Sponsor
Greetings Friends and Family:
Welcome to my marriage maintenance resource blog. First off I'm not married. Therefore, much of the insights and commentary here WILL NOT be coming from me. I'm posting up articles and powerful audio that I've found inspiring and compelling from seasoned ministers and authors on the subject of marriage and Christian relating. Being an unmarried person, why would I not devote a blog to single life maintenance? Well, this burden for holy marriages has come from 1) wanting desperately to see Christian marriages be noticeably DIFFERENT from the world we live in, 2) because I'm helping to bear very heavy loads of a few of my married close friends, and 3) my failed "faulty simulations" of marriage through the whole boyfriend-girlfriend experience. Hopefully, all this insight will serve as my best offense against a worldly minded marriage--should the Lord will that for me. This blog is meant to be a troubleshooting tool for friends, family, and passers by who are interested in the subject of marriage and desire to be provoked toward more Holiness in their marriages or just general relationships.
Therefore, you will find insights on submission, how to communicate, pornography, what a good marriage looks like, divorce/remarriage, married to an unbeliever, interracial marriage, and just being single men and women. In addition to the rich links and audio post below, there are about nine awesome articles by Chip Ingram I posted that you can print out and read during times of leisure. So scroll down and browse.
If your marriage is in trouble, I pray God intervene in a remarkable way, so as to heal it today! Enjoy all the articles posted below. But before you do, I'd like to share a poem I wrote recently inspired by some rich conversations I had with two friends. One friend about marriage and how I should not settle for what is common today in the "Christian Dating" scene and another who affirmed me with sentiments found in my poem:
Your Classmate
In Life
Tish
Welcome to my marriage maintenance resource blog. First off I'm not married. Therefore, much of the insights and commentary here WILL NOT be coming from me. I'm posting up articles and powerful audio that I've found inspiring and compelling from seasoned ministers and authors on the subject of marriage and Christian relating. Being an unmarried person, why would I not devote a blog to single life maintenance? Well, this burden for holy marriages has come from 1) wanting desperately to see Christian marriages be noticeably DIFFERENT from the world we live in, 2) because I'm helping to bear very heavy loads of a few of my married close friends, and 3) my failed "faulty simulations" of marriage through the whole boyfriend-girlfriend experience. Hopefully, all this insight will serve as my best offense against a worldly minded marriage--should the Lord will that for me. This blog is meant to be a troubleshooting tool for friends, family, and passers by who are interested in the subject of marriage and desire to be provoked toward more Holiness in their marriages or just general relationships.
Therefore, you will find insights on submission, how to communicate, pornography, what a good marriage looks like, divorce/remarriage, married to an unbeliever, interracial marriage, and just being single men and women. In addition to the rich links and audio post below, there are about nine awesome articles by Chip Ingram I posted that you can print out and read during times of leisure. So scroll down and browse.
If your marriage is in trouble, I pray God intervene in a remarkable way, so as to heal it today! Enjoy all the articles posted below. But before you do, I'd like to share a poem I wrote recently inspired by some rich conversations I had with two friends. One friend about marriage and how I should not settle for what is common today in the "Christian Dating" scene and another who affirmed me with sentiments found in my poem:
HE WHO FINDS ME
Finally! God's woman is emerging from a selfish hearted girl
Those hurts and rejects designed by God to form and reveal the pearl
Finally! God's woman is emerging from a selfish hearted girl
Those hurts and rejects designed by God to form and reveal the pearl
The diamond, the jewel He is fashioning me to be
Next time, brother must search the heart of God thoroughly to find me
Next time, brother must search the heart of God thoroughly to find me
Yep! That's where I am, that's where I'll be
Hidden in Him, at the right Hand, praying in concert with His praying
Hidden in Him, at the right Hand, praying in concert with His praying
For the needs of His people, His agenda, His harvest of lives
Hoping the man seeking me understands God gives praying men prudent wives!
Cause next time there will be NO "trying me on" for size
Hoping the man seeking me understands God gives praying men prudent wives!
Cause next time there will be NO "trying me on" for size
And next time
this pursuer of mine
must search the heart God to find--------me
to ask for me, personally
this pursuer of mine
must search the heart God to find--------me
to ask for me, personally
For in the heart of God is where I am, that's where I'll be
Sowing seeds of repentance and obedience, loving Him back
reaping joy and delight, in Him, the safest place for me
Sowing seeds of repentance and obedience, loving Him back
reaping joy and delight, in Him, the safest place for me
--written Latisha Monique Grady (1/07)
Your Classmate
In Life
Tish
# posted by The Persevering One @ 8:49 AM 
