Marriage Articles
Couples, find encouragement here to help you cultivate honesty, exhibit grace, and experience joy in your marriage.
- An Ordinary Home Can Be a Holy Place The best opportunities parents have to model spirituality and teach biblical truths to their children often come unannounced, in the midst of everyday life and events. This article gives very practical ways to be a spiritual mentor to your kids during the normalcy of life. It also encourages constant intercession for your children and discernment to recognize significant moments in their growth and development.
- Anniversaries This is a reflective article Chuck wrote after celebrating his fiftieth anniversary with his wife, Cynthia. He reminisces on the many shared experiences over the years, the joys and the hardships they both endured, and the transitions they faced as they both learned and developed as people and as Christians.
- Attitude Check
- Battle of the Will
- Coming Home
- Committing to the Road Less Traveled
- Diversity into Unity: A Love Story
- Faith or Family
- It's a Guy's Life!
- Let's Consult the Architect Using verses from the book of Proverbs, Chuck Swindoll explains three tools that our Master Builder, God, has given us to help build solid, lasting marriages. Instead of dwelling on the ways our mate could change or improve, we need to work toward increasing our own understanding of our mate and his or her needs and perceptions.
- Living with a Kingdom Mentality
- Love Has a Thick Skin
- Marital Grace Through confessing an area of weakness in his own life and marriage, Chuck explains the necessity of allowing grace into your marriage relationship by trusting your spouse and setting him or her free. Jealous, controlling thoughts and behavior that merely reflect one’s own fears and insecurities will smother and stifle your spouse and, therefore, your marriage.
- Marriage Is God’s Invention
- Passive Men, Wild Women When communication breaks down in a marriage, certain patterns can develop. In this article, Chuck Swindoll explains one common scenario that is caused by a passive, disengaged husband who is insensitive to his wife’s needs. The solution lies in spending some concentrated and uninterrupted time together, where transparency and real listening must take place.
- Protecting Your Marriage from Its Greatest Threat Many affairs between coworkers could have been avoided if those involved had read this practical, hard-hitting article first. It delineates some very clear boundaries to set firmly to keep yourself away from tempting situations and to prevent sending unintended signals. Read this article if you want to protect your marriage from being harmed by your work relationships.
- Reality Check Living in our permissive culture, it’s sometimes hard for Christians to confront a person who is not honoring his or her marriage vows and who isn’t being faithful to his or her spouse. Chuck encourages pastors and all of us to take the risk and call sin, sin, regardless of the response we receive. Jesus was unafraid and uncompromising when confronting those caught up in sin, and we need to follow His example.
- The Three-Second Pause
- Unquenchable Hope Throughout his more than forty years as a pastor, Chuck Swindoll has seen many believers who have started out strong in their faith but who have been beaten down over time through difficult circumstances and life events that didn’t turn out as expected. Using Scripture, he reminds us of how the promises in the Bible are not just for the future but of great benefit to us right here in the present. Whatever hardships we may be facing now, the growth we can experience as we face them with patience will bring fruit for eternity.
- Whatever Happened to Fidelity? As Christians, we are all called to marital fidelity and moral purity. Chuck Swindoll laments the poor example that some high-profile Christian leaders have given to their flocks by failing to practice personally what they preach from the pulpit. Sexual sin has far-reaching consequences that cannot be foreseen, so we should make every effort to remain faithful to our commitments.
- When He's Not Leading This article is of great value to a wife who is discouraged with the lack of spiritual interest and leadership by her husband. She is cautioned here against behavior that may seem natural but is instead harmful to her husband’s growth. As she can learn to let go of her own resentments and requirements and rely on the power of prayer, the Holy Spirit can begin to work in the heart of her husband unhindered.