It’s time for our next marriage retreat. We’re so excited about seeing marriages like yours grow and get stronger.
Wherever you are in your marriage, you can take it to the next level with a Bible-based marriage retreat. Couples will get away and work on some of the most common marriage issues like communication, conflict resolution, growth in intimacy, and help understanding why you or your spouse responds as you do at times.
You’ll also enjoy beautiful accommodations and time spent with each other.
My husband and I will be leading the retreat. Mike is a pastor and biblical counselor and I’m a certified biblical counselor. Besides leading retreats and conferences, we started and ran a biblical counseling center for twelve years and have been counseling couples for twenty-plus years. By God’s grace, we have seen hundreds of marriages change and grow over the years.
Leaving, cleaving, weaving: Often, when a couple is struggling in their marriage, it can be traced back to a failure to obey God in one or more of these areas.
We’ve all heard the phrase “a marriage made in heaven.” But depending on your life situation, the word marriage may bring to mind different thoughts and images. Perhaps it’s of your parents’ marriage and whether it was a good one or a contentious one. Or maybe it’s your own marriage and the thoughts, dreams, commitments, and even preconceptions, you had when you married. Or perhaps, marriage is something you are still looking forward to.
Wherever you are … married, divorced, widowed, or single, I pray you’ll take away truths from this series that will help you in your own or any future marriage or help you minister to others who are married.
Wherever you are in your marriage, you can take it to the next level with a Bible-based marriage retreat. At a Joyful Marriage Retreat, couples will get away and work on some of the most common marriage issues like communication, conflict resolution, growth in intimacy, and help understanding why you or your spouse responds as you do at times. You’ll also enjoy beautiful accommodations and time spent with each other.
Also, see what other couples have to say about previous retreats and conferences.
Wherever you are in your marriage, you can take it to the next level with a Bible-based marriage retreat. At a Joyful Marriages, marriage retreat, couples will get away and work on some of the most common marriage issues like communication, conflict resolution, growth in intimacy, and help understanding why we respond as we do at times. You’ll also enjoy beautiful accommodations and time spent with a small group and alone as a couple.
Are you settling for less in your marriage? Less than you dreamed of when you first met? Or maybe you’ve grown and learned a few communication techniques. So, now you have settled for a little less fighting? And then there are the kids. Maybe you have settled for focusing on them. Or maybe you think, “Our marriage is OK. It’s not perfect but what marriage is?”
Or maybe you’re waiting. Waiting for a better job, a bigger house, for one or both of you to get established in your career. Then things will be better. Maybe you’re just waiting for the kids to be grown so you can leave. Or waiting to see what will happen, whether or not things will get better.
Could your marriage use a tune-up? Or even some intensive care? Or do you know someone else who might benefit from a retreat? At our Joyful Marriage Retreats, couples will get away and work on some of the most common marriage issues like communication, conflict resolution, growing in intimacy, and help understanding why we respond as we do at times.
Marriage is hard. It takes work. It takes staying committed in a world that says, “If I’m not happy, I’m outta here.” Yet, none of us marries with the idea that it won’t last. We get married thinking our relationship will be different. We’re in love and plan to live happily ever after. That lasts about a week-and-a-half.
Instead, marriage is like God’s sandpaper. It exposes our basic selfishness and all our rough edges. But if we let God teach us where we need to grow and change … if we learn to forgive … if we learn what it means to give grace to one another … if we stay committed through the good times and the bad, marriage can be one of God’s greatest gifts.
It is a problem that plagues us all. It shows up in our first days of life and has the potential to impact us to the end. It is magnified by marriage and other close relationships. And like so much...