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Partners for Life: Bible Verses on Love and Marriage

Partners for Life: Bible Verses on Love and Marriage

Kate Motaung2025-05-14T16:40:01+00:00November 15th, 2023|Couples Counseling, Featured, Marriage Counseling, Relationship Issues, Spiritual Development|

When He was asked what the greatest command in the whole of Scripture was, Jesus answered that it all hangs on love. “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’ This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.” (Matthew 22:37-40, NIV). All that we do in life ought to revolve and flow from loving God and our neighbor. This applies to marriage as well as to any other relationship. Together, for life. Marriage brings two people and binds them together for life. Though we decide to get married, it’s God who is joining the two and making them one flesh. Jesus reminds us of this profound reality when He was responding to a question about divorce by saying: “Haven’t you read,” he 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 be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh’? So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no one separate.” – Matthew 19:4-6, NIV The marriage bond should not be dissolved by us because God designed marriage to be permanent from the beginning. Marriage is bigger than us; it is a symbol of how Christ loves and cleaves to His Church. Carrollton Christian Counseling is here to help couples nurture this sacred bond, providing guidance and support to strengthen marriages in alignment with God’s design. Pondering the same verses from Genesis 2, Paul writes “‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united [...]

Issues That Might Come Up In Christian Premarital Counseling

Kate Motaung2025-04-24T07:36:29+00:00November 6th, 2023|Couples Counseling, Featured, Premarital Counseling, Relationship Issues|

The people we allow closest to us play a significant role in our lives by being part of our overall well-being. They form our support network, that group of people to whom we can turn in times of crisis and on whose wisdom we rely. This especially applies to premarital counseling. They are the people who guide us, keep us accountable, help us nurture our dreams, and with whom we do life. When these key relationships are healthy, we have a better chance of flourishing, and when they are mired in ongoing conflict or other unhealthy behaviors, your flourishing is hampered. Your choice of marriage partner is one of the weightier decisions you’ll make in your life. This is the person you’re choosing to walk alongside for the rest of your life. This is likely the individual who will have the largest impact on your well-being, for good or for ill. In his book The Mystery of Marriage, Mike Mason rightly says that “There is nothing in the world worse than a bad marriage, and at the same time nothing better than a good one”. What is Christian premarital counseling for? Christian premarital counseling is part of the process of wisely discerning whether the person you want to get married to is the right partner for you. Premarital counseling helps you consider the reality of marriage and married life so that you make an informed decision. Additionally, by addressing certain perennial issues that often trip couples up in their life together, Carrollton Christian Counseling offers premarital counseling that helps prepare couples to face those challenges well. Issues that might come up. Premarital counseling makes for better decision-making and a greater sense of ownership of the decision to get married. It helps you get prepared for life together by helping [...]

How to Get the Most Out of Christian Couples Counseling

Kate Motaung2025-04-22T07:18:05+00:00May 5th, 2023|Couples Counseling, Featured, Marriage Counseling, Relationship Issues|

Romantic relationships are one type of relationship where we get to express the diverse meanings of the word love. With your spouse, you are friends, you are lovers, and you walk together through all the seasons of life. These relationships will have their moments of beauty, but they will also have bits of ugliness as when the couple is selfish or inconsiderate toward one another. Couples must contend with changes within themselves and their counterpart, holding firm to their commitment to one another through different seasons of life. Challenges arise, and couples deal with these with varying levels of success. Carrollton Christian Counseling can help couples navigate these challenges with faith-based guidance and support. Every couple has its own story of triumphs and struggles, but they also have unique skills and resources with which to address the struggles they face. Couples counseling is an effective tool that a couple can make use of as they work through challenges and different life seasons. If a couple decides to pursue couples counseling, it can help them resolve conflict, address the impact of infidelity or emotional distance, and equip them to address future issues that may crop up. However, when they enter into counseling they must do so with a certain mindset. Counseling only works when people put in the necessary work to improve their relationship. If one is not open to making an effort and doesn’t welcome change and growth, then counseling will not be effective. Below are some pointers on how to get the most out of Christian couples counseling. Optimizing your Christian couples counseling experience Agree to work at it together. When you begin, it may be that only one of you felt the need to go for counseling. That’s okay. But if you both agree to go for counseling, you [...]

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