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The Key to Peace

Having a solid understanding of where my responsibilities end and where God’s sovereignty begins is a HUGE key to peace that I was missing for many years. THE WAY I USED TO LIVE I ultimately trusted myself, not God. I said I trusted Christ. I thought that I was living by faith – but in […]

My Demon.

From Peacefulwife: I am SOOOOO proud of this precious wife, Kayla, who is absorbing God’s Word and truth like a sponge and striving to obey Him and learn to respect her husband in ways that actually meet his deepest masculine needs. She is learning so much! God is truly at work in her heart and […]

Love, Honor,Respect and Submission Are Gifts

The passages about marriage in Ephesians 5, Colossians 3, I Corinthians 11:3, I Peter 3 and Titus 2 all give God’s commands for husbands and wives in marriage. Before we dive in, let’s begin with the understanding that God made men and women with equal value – both are “image bearers of God” in Genesis […]

David Platt’s Biblical Manhood and Womanhood

This series is SO WORTH YOUR TIME! David Platt does a beautiful job of explaining scripture: PART 1 1. God created men and women both to be equal in value and dignity – both were created to be image bearers of God 2. God created male and female with different roles. Man is to be […]

How to Make Your Husband an Idol

Idolatry is not something we think much about in our modern day, Western culture. I grew up in church, reading the Bible, knowing how offensive idolatry was to God – feeling super smug and secure because I didn’t commit sins like THAT! What could possibly be tempting about bowing down to a statue and serving […]

A Husband Answers – “Why Won’t My Husband Lead?”

Today’s post is a guest post by a Christian husband – answering a wife’s question. This wife has been working on respect and biblical submission for about 6 months, and doesn’t understand why sometimes her husband tells her that he doesn’t want to lead in their marriage. (PS – just so everyone is aware – […]

The Devastation of Sexual Rejection in Marriage

Ladies, I know that MANY of you are suffering in your marriage with the pain of sexual rejection. The pain can be excruciating. And many women think they are the only wives whose husbands refuse them. Reading marriage books that constantly talk about how men want intimacy all the time just drives the knife deeper […]

Worry – Part 2

For Part 1 of this series, please click here. If you have not asked Jesus to be your Savior and Lord, please click here. If you have already accepted that you are a wretched sinner, as we all are, and have turned to Jesus as both Savior and Lord of everything in your life- There […]

Worry – Part 1

Hang on, ladies! This is a painful one – but necessary. It’s going to step on all our toes. But we have to deal with some unpleasant and critical issues to get to the intimacy we long for with Christ and our husbands! Please approach this post with a prayerful attitude of yieldedness and openness to God’s […]

One Couple Deals with the Issue of Body Image

Body image is a HUGE, HUGE topic that causes a great deal of stress, pressure and anxiety for many women. Hundreds of thousands of my Christian sisters are paralyzed in their marriages by their feelings of inadequacy and by listening to the wrong voices about this issue. I think that it is very easy […]