Discussion Resources
Family Life Marriage Retreat: A Weekend to Remember
https://www.familylife.com/weekend-to-remember/
Focus on the family
https://www.focusonthefamily.com
The Power of a Praying Wife (Husband) to list of resources.
https://www.amazon.com/Power-Praying®-Wife-Stormie-Omartian/dp/0736957499
Dr. Charles Swindoll: Strike the Original Match (book, study guide, sermon) https://www.amazon.com/Strike-Original-Match-Charles-Swindoll/dp/0310413516
https://store.insight.org/p-1189-strike-the-original-match-nbspanbspclassicnbspseries.aspx
Later, new resources appeared: Love and Respect (Book with Study guide) we used this with new, younger families. Suggest this study for COUPLES.
Scripture
Titus 2:3-5
Teach the older women to be quiet and respectful in everything they do. They must not go around speaking evil of others and must not be heavy drinkers, but they should be teachers of goodness. These older women must train the younger women to live quietly, to love their husbands and their children, and to be sensible and clean minded, spending their time in their own homes, being kind and obedient to their husbands so that the Christian faith can’t be spoken against by those who know them. (alternate translation says in verse 5: …that the word of God may not be dishonored)
Ephesians 6:21-24
…and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ. Wives, be subject to your own husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also is the head of the church, He Himself being the Savior of the body. But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.
One additional prayer that I speak frequently is Ephesians 3:14-21. When I’m asked to pray for (fill in the blank), I KNOW that these are Words straight from God’s hand and mind. They are effective; I like to pray like that.
Ephesians 3:14-21
For this reason, I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name, that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spires in the inner man; so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; and that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God. Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us, to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever. Amen
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