A4P Guest: “Hi Missy, I am 24 years old. My husband and I celebrated our one year wedding anniversary last month. We both are Christians and we love each other. We came to the marriage not having any sexual relationship with anyone. We both grew up in church. I always enjoy being intimate with my husband but when it comes to actually doing “it”, for some reason, I lose interest. This was the case with me for the first seven or eight months of our marriage.
Category Archives: Marriage
Always Good to be Home!
Praise the LORD!
I’m back to Maryland from Austin, Texas. I had a wonderful weekend with the people of God! Continue reading Always Good to be Home!
“But She is a Virgin”
From all the hundreds of commandments given to the people of God, the Israelites, this one command gets my attention:
“Do not plow with an ox and a donkey yoked together.” (Deuteronomy 22:10)
Okay, I clearly understand other commandments such as, “Don’t kill” and “Don’t do adultery.”
“Don’t yoke an ox and a donkey?” Huh?
This got me a bit confused.
Desperate To Get Married?
Are you desperate to get married? Does the thought of getting married consume you? Do you find yourself browsing through social media to see if someone is interested in you?
Well, most nutritionists advise us not to go to grocery shopping while hungry. Do you know why? Well, if we are hungry, we buy anything regardless of the fat content and the calorie count of the food and we end up destroying our health and excellent body figure.
One of the Signs of a Good Marriage
I said “good” because there are only good and bad marriages. There is no “a perfect marriage”. Perfect marriages only exist in the fantasy world of soon-to-be married or newly married couples.
Okay, so, one of the signs of a good marriage is this: Continue reading One of the Signs of a Good Marriage
Marriage Program in Indianapolis
This is a clip from the marriage program in Indianapolis. God willing, this video will be captioned in English.
God bless you for watching! ///
“Try Before You Buy?”
Not If You Are Looking for a Marriage That Will Endure Inevitable Trials.
Written by Greg Koukl –
http://www.salvomag.com/new/articles/salvo17/17koukl.php
If you want a guaranteed nomination for oddball of the year, announce to your friends or coworkers that you think sex is only for marriage. Most view such archaic notions as eccentric and even bizarre. Virgins are made to feel like nerds. If you haven’t “gotten lucky” by age 18, it’s probably because you’re a social reject. Continue reading “Try Before You Buy?”
Happy Anniversary!
My lovely parents, Kessela Mengistu and Tadesse Kifetew, just celebrated their 57th wedding anniversary this past Monday, June 19, 2017.
The Way A Child Should Go
I thought the message of this video was about “training up a child in the way he should go” but when I heard the message right before it was uploaded on the Appeal for Purity YouTube channel, the message sounded to me more like, “God gives strength to the weak.”
Amen!
I guess both ways, it is true, it is important to train up a child in the word of God and it is true that God helps the weak.
I love how Proverbs 22:6 reads in NIV: “Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.”
“Start children off” – means, start “disciplining” children when they start talking and walking, not when they turn 15 or 16. This responsibility is not given to the church or to the government but to us parents. It is always good to remember this.
Our primary role as parents is not to manipulate the minds of our children so they believe what we believe or to control and decide their destiny by our strict rules and regulations but to help our kids know Christ and the word of God. The rest is God’s role.
Paul writes, “I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. ” (1 Corinthians 3:6-7)
Amen! Our part is to plant the word of God (the seed) in our kids’ little hearts and minds and water that seed daily with our prayers. Making that “seed” grow is God’s part.
So, I want to encourage you all parents of little kids out there to plant “the word of God” in your kids’ hearts and minds today and “water” that seed with your daily prayer. Don’t lose heart. “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” (Galatians 6:9)
Don’t say, “But I am not strong, I am weak” because God knows that you and I are weak. But guess what? You and I have a God who helps the weak. “He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.” (Isaiah 40:29) ///
