There are those who contend that marriage itself is grounds for divorce. Today's astonishing 50% failure rate seems to support this dim view. Yet, it is possible to live together in marriage "till death do us part" and have a rewarding and happy relationship. Here is how to receive everything from marriage that God intended.

If they really and truly knew the meaning of "commitment", "caring", "love", and "admiration", they wouldn't be calling it quits. If you want more from your marriage than a mere emotional attraction, please read and consider the following bible truths.

How to Have a Happy Marriage — There are those who contend that marriage itself is grounds for divorce. Today's astonishing 50% failure rate seems to support this dim view. Yet, it is possible to live together in marriage "till death do us part" and have a rewarding and happy relationship. Here is how to receive everything from marriage that God intended.

To the Bride & Groom — Thoughts and suggestions that can help you live your lives together "to the praise of His glory" because you have "first trusted in Christ" (Ephesians 1:12) To give and receive all that God intended in your marriage — read together — read repeatedly and discuss openly with each other.

Bible Study on the Christian Family — Next to an individual's eternal salvation, the subject of marriage and the home is the most important. To be a success in business or have a well thought of place in the community and fail in the responsibilities of the home is to miss the realities of life.

Help For Hurting Homes — This worksheet is for those who are honestly interested in having a Christian marriage that is both happy and God glorifying. Lack of honesty with yourself and toward God will doom any effort to heal your home.

The Truth Shall Make You Free — The human tendency is to think that if we have failed God and He is thus displeased with us, then God's love for us has diminished also. This may be a human trait at times but it is not a divine one. Sin in all its ugliness, does obstruct a child of God's fellowship with our Lord and it inhibits our opportunities to be used by Him and to glorify Him, but it does not lessen His love for us as His blood bought and washed children.

Warning: Athletics & Music May be Hazardous to the Spiritual Health of Your Family — It is an increasingly difficult challenge for Christian fathers and mothers to provide wholesome activities for their children. The easy way to do this (really a copout) is to allow public schools, Little League, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and other organizations to do the PARENT'S job of directing the energies and occupying our children's time.

Marriage, Divorce and Remarriage (A Biblical Perspective) — The conclusions in this study, dated August 15, 1996, are the result of many hours of prayerful study by ministering brethren among us. Our prayer in this series of studies was to know the mind of God or the attitude of God toward marriage, divorce and re-marriage. The focus of our study was to understand what allowance God has made for those who are the "victims" in a situation where their partner has been guilty of sexual immorality or where their partner has abandoned them. Our desire was to first allow the scripture to indicate God's original intent in the marriage. Second, to understand what allowance God, in his mercy, has granted those whose spouse has not followed God's original intent relevant to marriage.

Our hope is that you will be as those in Berea of whom we are told in Acts 17:11: "These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so."

Having this attitude we trust that you will then obey these exhortations from the apostle Paul, I Thessalonians 5:20-22: "Do not despise prophecies. Test all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil."