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Having “The Talk”

While researching the material for the new HomeBuilders study Making Your Marriage Deployment Ready, our writing team met with numerous chaplains, churches, and service members of all branches as we pursued a goal of ensuring our material was relevant to the challenges of military life today. One of the significant meetings was with a Gold Star widow near Ft. Hood. She insisted—maybe even stronger than that—that we include an exercise in the study which would walk a couple through the steps of having “The Talk.”

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Hellos and Good-byes

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. Love is patient, love is kind. — I Corinthians 13:4 I’m not sure that communication in marriage comes easily for anyone, but I got some good advice early on which…

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Newlywed Blessings

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. “Haven’t you read,” (Jesus) replied, “that at the beginning the Creator ‘made them male and female,’ and said, ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and…

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Love Letter Virus

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. “I am the way, the truth, and the life . . . no one comes to the Father but through Me.” — John 14:6 A few years ago a virus…

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At Least 100 Years

Excellent or Praiseworthy is posted on Monday and Thursday nights. Editor's Note:  This is a great story to follow our last posting, "Dancing in the Minefields."  Check it out, too. Today I have given you the choice between life and…

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