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The Love Story of Adam and Eve Made for Each Other Bible Love Stories Volume One This is the first episode in a series (Bible Love Stories). Link to my new book, Marriage and the Fruit of the Spirit. God put Adam and Eve together, literally making them for each other and inventing the institution of marriage. In making marriage, God laid out the principles for a lifetime together. Link to a special workbook with more about Adam and Eve’s story and creative activities for you! Link to the Bi...

Table Of Contents Why Get Married? The Problem I Love You Love Is Leaving Love Is Offering Love Is Volunteering Love Is Expecting Why Get Married? Love I want someone to love me. I want to feel loved. I want to experience being loved. I think there is a deep-seated desire to love someone, to know that out of all the people in this world, there is one that I love and that loves me back. My life has meaning because I am in love. Love is the ultimate cure for loneliness. Even when you are not t...

FixerUpperMarriage.org/Conflict Jason@FixerUpperMarriage.org Like us on Facebook Summary Marriage conflict is a terrible thing. Or is it? Maybe the conflict is really about something entirely different than what you think it is! Find out what marriage conflict is all about and how it can change your marriage for the better. How Does Conflict Change You? Table Of Contents Through Your Differences Through Disagreements Through Your Reconciling Through Disappointments Love sets off a series of...

FixerUpperMarriage.org/LostLove God’s creation of love is one of the most amazing things in life. He created people with the urge to love and be loved by someone. People dream about love, read about love, and wish for love to find them. Love is the “big bang” of life. It’s when two people collide in a way that fundamentally alters the course of their lives. Love is a feeling, an emotion, a commitment, a longing, a desire, and a desperate need. Once you have fallen in love with someone, it doesn’...

FixerUpperMarriage.org/Prayers Read I Peter 3:1-12 Table Of Contents Little Green Mile Markers Submission Knowledge Respect Empathy Peace Spiritual Enlightenment Little Green Mile Markers I am driving up the interstate highway. I am in the fast-lane and I am counting the mile markers. They are these little green signs on the side of the road that mark the miles. I don’t know what purpose they serve other than a way to pass the time while driving. I have just crossed over the state line, mile...

FixerUpperMarriage.org/money What is Money? Money is this powerful, mysterious force that controls and changes your life. It divides people into classes (the haves and the have nots). And nothing makes people more jealous than money. Money is an intoxication. Having it makes you feel powerful, independent, and free. Not having it makes you feel weak, helpless, and bound. It is like an addiction to a powerful drug. It controls you. Money is an abusive master. It manipulates you with fear and h...

8 Ways to Find and Develop Things You Can Have in Common in Your Marriage FixerUpperMarriage.org/Common Jason@FixerUpperMarriage.org Table Of Contents What’s So Great about Matchbox Cars? 1. Schedule Time to Just Talk 2. Treat Each Other Like Best Friends 3. Start Fresh in Your Relationship 4. Try Some New Things Together 5. Get Involved With the Things that Your Spouse Likes 6. Reminisce Over Your Relationship History 7. Recognize and Rejoice Over Demonstrations of Love 8. Work On Your Faith...

FixerUpperMarriage.org/Wrong email: Jason@FixerUpperMarriage.org Table Of Contents A Cool Story You Are Married to the Wrong Person Because Your Expectations Have Made them Wrong You Are Married to the Wrong Person Because They Are Wrong by Nature You Are Married to the Wrong Person Because You Are Missing the Right Person A Cool Story I am in the 6th grade and I’m stepping out of our family station wagon. My mom always made sure I had everything I needed for school. I am carrying a brown pa...

FixerUpperMarriage.org/thieves Email: Jason@FixerUpperMarriage.org Table Of Contents It’s Gone 1. The Thief of Familiarity 2. The Thief of Desire 3. The Thief of Neglect Summary It’s Gone It’s gone! I yelled to my wife as I walked in the door of our house after a long day at work. I feel sick to my stomach and angry at the same time. Pulling into our driveway, I knew it right away. There is nothing left but pieces of a broken lock. Now I am frantically searching and dialing the number for th...

FixerUpperMarriage.org/vanilla email: Jason@FixerUpperMarriage.org Table Of Contents Plain Vanilla Ice Cream Overcome Fear by Living in the Present Overcome Fear by Trusting the One You Love Overcome Fear by Reading the End of the Story Summary Plain Vanilla Ice Cream I just want plain vanilla ice cream. I am in our church fellowship hall, it’s a large multipurpose building with a dining area, kitchen, and serving area. I am walking up to the table to place my order of ice cream. I really do...

R-E-S-P-E-C-T FixerUpperMarriage.org/respect Friday, December 1st, 1978 I am 3 years old and I am looking out the side door of our house into our massive garage. My dad and mom are pulling up in our red Pontiac sedan. It was built like a tank and it felt like riding in a boat. Sitting in the back seat when my dad mashed the gas, was like riding a wave or something. I think every car was like a muscle car back then. So my dad parks the car in the garage and I am watching my mom gingerly get ou...

FixerUpperMarriage.org/me Newsletter A Me 1st Story I dropped the phone on my bed. It was late and something had just snapped inside of me. I am letting go of my phone, but actually I am letting go of something much bigger. And it feels good. It had taken me almost a year to get to this point, but I am here now trying to make sense of how I feel. I had just said something that at one time I wondered if I would ever be able to say. I didn’t know what would happen next, but it didn’t matter righ...

FixerUpperMarriage.org/messy August 5th, 2004 around 9 PM I am curled up on the cold, hard floor in the corner of a hospital room. And I am crying. The thing is, I don’t cry. I am like Clint Eastwood in those old spaghetti westerns. I never flinch, never panic, and I always have a plan. But not today. Instead, I am sobbing and hoping that no one sees me. It all started a couple of months after our wedding day. I had married the woman of my dreams. We loved each other madly, kissed passionately...

FixerUpperMarriage.org/mindful Newsletter It was late one Saturday night when I left my wife’s house. We had been seeing each other for a while but were not yet engaged. We were falling in love and it was hard to leave her, so I stayed as long as I could. The hardest part about long-distance relationships is saying goodbye. So we reluctantly lingered on her front porch, and I finally faded back to my truck. I had at least a 3-hour drive home, so I put on a CD to listen to. The player was set to ...

FixerUpperMarriage.org/Rx No one would argue that the institution of marriage is in trouble today. The divorce rate is off the charts. Couples married for years are getting divorced or separated. I am even shocked at the number of couples in the ministry who are struggling with their marriage relationship. Most of the time you don’t see their problems until it is unavoidable in becoming public. And that is just in what we can actually see. I think that there are many more marriages struggling t...

FixerUpperMarriage.org/soulmate The search for your soul mate is promoted everywhere. Dating websites promise to find them with compatibility tests. Even the premise of many fairy tales is to find your one true love. Young people daydream about finding the perfect one for them. So the soul mate idea becomes a fantasy. And your expectations for your potential spouse skyrocket to the moon. The pressure mounts to find that one person out of 6,840,507,000 in the world. So you develop a wishlist for...

FixerUpperMarriage.org/leave Learn some Bible principles for divorce and separation. As a note, if you are affected by this I would advise you to counsel with your pastor before you make any decisions related to this. You have to live with the consequences of this decision, so you should seek godly counsel. Also, if the story of your life has been touched by this, it is not my desire to hurt you or put you down. God works in your life where you are at right now, He doesn’t hold your past agains...

FixerUpperMarriage.org/together When you are fixing up a house, you can find some unexpected issues. Maybe you discover that there is no insulation in part of the house. Maybe the electrical wires or the plumbing pipes were installed wrong. There could be a number of unexpected problems to show up. Likewise, when you are trying to fixing up your marriage, you may find unexpected problems that you did not realize were there. There could be problems that your spouse has that you were unaware of u...

A Guide to Adding Decor to Your Fixer Upper Marriage FixerUpperMarriage.org/decor Full Assurance: A Simple Tool for Gaining Real Assurance of Salvation is on sale now. It is available on Amazon. If you buy the paperback version between August 12th-16th(2019), you can get the Kindle (ebook) version for free, with an app you can save the book on your phone or tablet. For more information visit FixerUpperMarriage.org/FullAssurance. Just click on the paperback version and it should give you the ebo...

FixerUpperMarriage.org/ruin Marriage is like a house. There are things you can do or not do, that can over time ruin the property. When you don’t fix things when they break, or do preventive maintenance, your house can go from nice to run down and maybe even unlivable. Your marriage is the same way, if you just ignore your problems or refuse to work at preventing them, your marriage can go from nice to run down, or maybe even unlivable! Learn how to change the things that ruin your marriage. 1....

FixerUpperMarriage.org/wait Waiting is hard to do and these days no one wants to do it. We become irritated if we have to wait longer than 30 seconds in line at the store, upset if it takes 10 seconds for a page to load on our computers, and enraged if the car in front of us is doing the speed limit! Coffee must be instant and food must be fast (which fast food is not really all that faster). Our expectations are to not have to wait on anything. However, waiting is one of the most important asp...

FixerUpperMarriage.org/purpose Marriage is truly an amazing creation. For God to imagine such an incredible way of living and reproducing on this earth. He created man and woman to need each other and to seek to love each other. To fall in love, and give yourself to another for a lifetime is the most amazing relationship on the planet. A moment between two people can develop into a love relationship that leads to a commitment and vow that binds two hearts together for a lifetime. We are made to...

FixerUpperMarriage.org/endafight What happens when two people are fixing up a house? Inevitably, there will be disagreements in style and use. It could be the color scheme, the decorations, or the layout. The marriage relationship has a similar problem, in that it is composed of two people who are probably very different. In fact, most people tend to marry their opposite! The interest and attraction comes from how different your spouse is than you. Consider the following: God made men and women...

FixerUpperMarriage.org/habits Fixing up a house means accounting for the things that people do every day. This includes the furniture that you relax on, the bed that you sleep in, and even the refrigerator that you open multiple times a day. Love and marriage is also filled with things that you do every day that have an impact on it. These things that you do everyday are called habits. According to Mirriam Webster’s online, a habit is a settled tendency or usual manner of behavior. Some habits ...