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Making Your Marriage Great

Making Your Marriage Great. Doctor to patient’s wife :. “Mam, I don’t like the way your husband looks’. Woman :. “Neither do I, but he is really good to the kids ”. Making Your Marriage Great. Marriage Report Card. Over all A + Husband Wife. Alternate Titles:.

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Making Your Marriage Great

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  1. Making Your Marriage Great

  2. Doctor to patient’s wife: “Mam, I don’t like the way your husband looks’.

  3. Woman: “Neither do I, but he is really good to the kids”.

  4. Making Your Marriage Great

  5. Marriage Report Card • Over all A+ • Husband • Wife

  6. Alternate Titles: • Making Marriage Work • Six Easy Steps To a Great Marriage • All God Says About Marriage in 30 Minutes • The Most Important Skills in Marriage

  7. How Being a Good Person Will Help You Have A Happy Marriage • Good Personsare concerned about others. • Good Personspractice love. • Good Personswant the best for others. • Good Personshave a positive sexual ethic. • Good Personscan forgive.

  8. How Being a Good Person Will Help You Have A Happy Marriage • Good Personsmake good fathers and mothers. • Good Personsprovide for their own. • Good Personsare kind. • Good Personsare unselfish.

  9. Now Some Thoughts . . .

  10. Make A Commitment • “Till death do us part.” • The Case for Marriage • 86% of the people who said that they were unhappy were happy five years later. • Commitment lets us work through problems.

  11. Make it a Priority • Continue to work at marriage. • If you do not love each other, when the kids leave,--- you will be lost. • The greatest thing you can do for your children is to love your spouse.

  12. Make Marriage Fun! • Some middle age crisis are because all the fun has gone out of marriage. It is all work and no play! • Enjoy each other. • Ecclesiastes 9:9: “Enjoy life with the wife of your youth.” • Enjoy sex: Song of Solomon. • Learn to have fun with little money.

  13. Learn to Communicate, Talk, and Fight! • Learn to listen. • Learn to talk. • Be friends first! • Learn to fight fair.

  14. My wife & I never fight. . . “But sometimes you can hear us reasoning things out for several blocks.”

  15. Deal with your Demons! • Find out what you are doing to harm your marriage and heal it. • Financial irresponsibility • Temper • Pornography • Substance Abuse • You name it!

  16. Have God at the center of your life From God we learn the marriage skills of: • Kindness • Forgiveness • Unconditional Love • Faithfulness • God will help us!

  17. The love of Christ and the church is the model for us! 25 “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.”

  18. The love of Christ and the church is the model for us! 28 “In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— 30 for we are members of his body.”

  19. It is worth the effort to have a better marriage!

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