Marriage Workshop - YCCC April 2010

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Thursday, April 29, May 6, 13, 20

from 6:30PM to 9:00PM

One of the best investments you can make in yourself, your family and God’s Kingdom is in your marriage.

This workshop is for you if ...

You want to strengthen your relationship
You are stuck in unresolved conflict
You are considering marriage
You are open to change
You want to take your marriage to new heights

The goals of the Make Your Marriage Work God’s Way intensive marriage workshop include helping couples to develop skills to:

Improve daily communication

Create a safe environment to foster intimacy

Navigate conflict successfully

Respect, enjoy and appreciate their differences

Experience and appropriate God’s love and grace

Restore agape love and passion

Workshop format...

In this series of workshops couples will have the opportunity to strengthen, enrich and rejuvenate their relationships through listening to brief teachings, viewing demonstrations, practicing skills and learning from others. All this in a safe and confidential setting that is limited to 7 couples.

This workshop can be considered the equivalent of 3-6 months of consistent couples counseling. A $1000 - $1500.00 value.

Spiritual discernment, that is how to make godly decisions and choices, discern good from evil, and truth from falsehood, is a prerequisite for godly living and over all spiritual, mental, relational and emotional health. Last year a client shared with me a story about a very prominent Bible teacher being deceived by a wolf in sheep’s clothing. The story was recounted at a conference where the Bible teacher was speaking.

This popular teacher was apparently persuaded by one of her “followers,” a new believer, to baptize her because of the tremendous impact her books and teachings had made on her life. This teacher, after much prayer, and godly counsel baptized the woman, only to find out later that the woman she baptized was a complete fraud.

There is not one individual who is immune from deception, because Satan rules the world through a web of deception. Spiritual discernment, like wisdom, provides protection from his deceit. However, since discernment and wisdom are leveraged by humility, we can easily miss the mark and fall into the devil’s trap. This happens because as John Calvin said, “We are intoxicated with a false opinion of our own discernment…” If we want the protection of discernment and wisdom we must first be willing to admit our need and inability to even think rightly apart from God’s truth and the work of the Holy Spirit.

The list below is one of the tools I use to help me rightly judge my own life decisions. Whenever there is a weighty decision before me, I get out my pen and paper and write out and pray through the answers to the following questions. You may come up with a few of your own to add to this list…to continue reading this article click here.

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In Closing...

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Until next time, I'm praying for God's richest blessings on your life and relationships,