Monthly Resources

When it comes to relationships, our society is great at overemphasizing the superficial aspects of love. But if we want to build a strong and enduring union, we must be willing to look beyond the surface and delve deeper into what truly makes a relationship thrive. This means it’s time to look beyond the typical greeting card aisle and start focusing on what really matters.

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The importance of love within a marriage cannot be underestimated. What does God intend for marital love to look like with regard to the roles of husband and wife? Alistair Begg explores the characteristics of Christian love in Lasting Love: How to Avoid Marital Failure:

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The Bible gives Christians a substantive framework for marriage that will result in a God-glorifying union. In Lasting Love: How to Avoid Marital Failure, Alistair Begg clarifies what the roles of a wife and husband look like according to God’s design:

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When it comes to God’s design for marriage, His blueprints are clearly drawn. The foundation, the structure, the roles He intends to be fulfilled—it’s all provided in Scripture. In fact, as Alistair Begg explains in Lasting Love: How to Avoid Marital Failure, Jesus Himself provided the perfect example of how God intends for the relationship between husband and wife to work:

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Our contemporary world often suggests that matrimony is an institution that humans dreamed up. But the original plan of marriage was God's creation—a covenant relationship of divine origin.

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The world around us claims to offer unlimited tangible pleasures, but our experience assures us that these pleasures are fleeting. Even those who follow so-called religious paths, still often find themselves empty and without joy. Ultimately, nothing short of an intimate, personal relationship with Christ can fill the believer’s soul with gladness.

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The Church is the Bride of Christ, and the Bridegroom’s love has no end. Do our hearts bow before Him in awareness of His beauty and devotion? Join Barbara Duguid, the author of this month’s featured resource Streams of Mercy, as she adores God with words of wonder and praise:

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In this world of trials, our trust in God can falter—especially when it appears as though Satan may be winning. The following prayer from this month’s featured resource Streams of Mercy rightly tunes our hearts to boast in the sweet name of our Savior:

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Even though God’s glory is evident throughout all of creation, He still stoops to love the weak and the broken. While He abounds in grace and gentle mercy toward us, though, we often neglect to extend that same care toward others. The following prayer, excerpted from this month’s featured resource, Streams of Mercy, helps us to confess our sinful attitudes toward those we are called to love:

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In the first of his Ninety-Five Theses, Martin Luther wrote that the entire Christian life is to be one of repentance. Our fickle hearts, lusts, impatience in times of waiting, lack of humility, resistance to reconciliation, fear—God wants us to talk to Him often about our deepest needs! How do we respond to the Bible’s calls to confess our struggles with sin?

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