Daily Archives: February 15, 2012
Small Group Bible Study Sessions on Marriage
We have some great small group Bible studies on the topic of love and marriage from some of the best communicators – Gary Thomas, Andy Stanley, Les and Leslie Parrot, and John and Stasi Eldredge. We’ve put many of our small group Bible study sessions up on YouTube. Now, we’ve separated out the ones on love and marriage on their own playlist – group bible studies on marriage. Watch the first session of Saving Your Marriage Before it Starts, Staying in Love, Sacred Marriage, Your Time-Starved Marriage, and more.
My wife and I have gone through each of these together at some point in our 9 years together and really appreciated each one. Most recently, we went through Sacred Marriage together. In this small group Bible study, Gary Thomas helps you discover a deeper intimacy with God through your marriage. He asks the question, “What if God designed marriage to make us holy more than to make us happy?” Here is session 1:
How do you react to the idea that God may have designed marriage to make us holy even more than to make us happy?
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Thanks to all who posted comments! These are all very important things to remember. These are things that are key whether you have been married 5 minutes or 50 years. I plan on putting this list inside my Bible and every day pray that I am able to live these to my wife and model them to my two boys.
Most all the comments fell into 10 things to remember so you stay in love (in order of number of comments):
- Sacrificial love
- Put Jesus first
- Maintain a friendship
- Communicate
- Develop a forgiving spirit
- Make a lasting commitment
- Regard one another with mutual respect
- Be open and honest with one another
- Maintain a sense of individuality
- Get naked
Grace. I wish I had something more lengthy to say, but that is it- the ability to remember how much Christ has forgiven you, then to extend that over and over to your spouse.
Thank you all for reading. Here is the first full session of Staying in Love by Andy Stanley:
