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A Love Life of Your Dreams: 10 Keys to a Deeper Relationship

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What does the Bible say about the Importance of Rest?

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Marriage Resources by Family Talk Weekends

Love For a Lifetime

The Complete Marriage and Family Home Reference Guide

What Wives Wish Their Husbands Knew About Women

5 Essentials For Lifelong Intimacy

Love Must Be Tough

Marriage Under Fire

Singleness: Waiting For God's Best

Family Talk Weekends with Dr. Dobson 

Family Talk Weekends with Dr. Dobson 

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Dr. James Dobson on Family Values

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Marriage & Relationships

PREPARING FOR MARRIAGE

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Why Wait for Sex?

• Three Lies About Premarital Sex
• Risk Factors for Premarital Sex
• Sex is Not About Waiting
• Sex is About Union
• Solomon's Line on Premarital Sex

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Test-Driving Marriage

• The Problem With Living Together
• Cohabitation as a Means to Marriage
• Ending the Test-Drive
• Six-Month Security
• Dr. Bill Maier on Cohabitation

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What It Means to Be Intimate

• Developing Emotional Intimacy
• Idealizing Intimacy
• Unfulfilled Intimacy: What Do I Do?
• Intimacy With God: The Way to True Fulfillment
• Next Steps / Related Information

Red Flags in a Relationship

• How Content Are You As a Single?
• Spiritual Red Flags
• Emotional Red Flags
• Character Red Flags
• Interpersonal Red Flags

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Searching for a 'Sole' Mate

• Soul Mates or 'Sole' Mates?
• Settling for a Spouse
• When to Settle
• Faith for the Man He'll Become
• Is There One Man for Me?

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Dating and Singleness Later in Life

• Idealizing Love, Romance and the Opposite Sex
• Five Ways to Celebrate Singleness
• Embracing Romantic Grief
• Dealing With Romantic Regret
• How to Recognize a Safe Date

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Approaching the Wedding Day

• Foundations of a Lifelong Marriage
• Avoiding Threats to Your Relationship
• Marriage Preparation 101
• The Truth About Your Spouse - Current or Future
• Your City or Mine?

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Understanding True Love

Lesson 16: Choosing Wisely

Next to your decision to take Jesus Christ as your Savior, the most important decision you can make is the choice of a life partner.

Some people prefer not to marry. That is certainly an acceptable choice, but most people choose to marry.

Getting married is easy. Having a happy and successful marriage is not easy. You do not just “luck” into it. There are some definite things you can do that will greatly improve your chances of having a successful marriage. Here are five things:

1. Understand Biblical marriage.
2. Become the “right” person.
3. Look to God to give you the right mate.
4. Choose wisely.
5. Seek God’s blessing on your engagement.

Marriage is one of the most important events in any person’s life. It marks the entrance into a whole new way of life as two people blend their lives into one.

Biblical marriage is a lifetime commitment. It is a serious thing for a man and woman to solemnly vow before God and families and friends that they will love and cherish each other until death parts them.

God takes vows seriously. God says: “When you make a vow, you must keep it.” God has no pleasure in those who make vows and break them. In His word, God says, “I hate divorce...”(Malachi 2:16).

You will take a big step toward a successful marriage if both of you agree that marriage is for life and that divorce is not an option for you. Jesus said, “…What therefore God has joined together, let not man put asunder” (Matthew 19:6).

There will be problems in any marriage, but there is a big advantage when both husband and wife know that they are committed to each other for life. It provides a security and freedom in which they can work out their problems without the threat of divorce. The word “divorce” should NEVER be used as a weapon in an argument.

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Help us produce this project that will impact girls in Northwest Arkansas. Every bit helps!

http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/beloved/x/3109468?show_todos=true — with Laura Wohlford in Fayetteville.

The "Unforgivable" Sin

What is the “Unforgivable Sin”?

Last week’s Monday Morning Scripture post highlighted Jesus’ response to accusations that he was in league with the devil himself. In answering his critics, Jesus refers to something that has troubled Christians ever since: the so-called “unforgivable sin.” Here are Jesus’ words:

“I promise you that any of the sinful things you say or do can be forgiven, no matter how terrible those things are. But if you speak against the Holy Spirit, you can never be forgiven. That sin will be held against you forever.” —Mark 3:28-29 (CEV)

Different Bible translations word this differently; some use the phrase “eternal sin” or “unforgivable sin.” In some, the sin is to “blaspheme against” or “curse the Holy Spirit.” Whatever the wording, what troubles many readers is the suggestion that there is a type of sin that God will not forgive. Doesn’t this contradict verses like 1 John 1:9, which state that God will forgive all of our wrongdoing? What exactly is the sin that can’t be forgiven—and is it possible that you’ve committed it, even unintentionally?

These are serious questions. For an answer, I turned to author and apologist Lee Strobel’s Investigating Faith newsletter, where earlier this year he published a thoughtful reflection on a difficult Bible passage. Here’s Lee’s response to the question, “What is the unforgivable sin, and how do I know I haven’t committed it?”

“If you’re worried that you may be guilty of the unforgivable sin, you almost certainly are not,” Rick Cornish aptly points out in his book Five Minute Theologian. “Concern about committing it reveals the opposite attitude of what the sin is. Those who might be guilty wouldn’t care because they have no distress or remorse over the possibility.”

Jesus talked about the unforgivable sin in Matthew 12:31-32: “And I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven. Anyone who speaks a word against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but anyone who speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in this age or in the age to come.”

Let’s face it – that’s a very sobering teaching! But let’s put it into context. Note that Jesus didn’t address his comments to his disciples or a mere crowd. He was talking specifically to Pharisees who had personally witnessed his miracle of completely and instantly healing a blind and mute demon-possessed man (Matthew 12:22). Rather than acknowledging the obvious fact that Jesus was exercising divine powers, the Pharisees were so spiritually depraved that they attributed his power to Satan (v. 24).

“Their problem was not blind ignorance, but willful rejection,” pointed out Cornish. “That deliberate refusal to believe, even though knowing the truth, seems to be what Jesus called the unforgivable sin.”

As the Quest Study Bible puts it, “Jesus gave the solemn warning in these verses to people whose hard-heartedness placed them on the brink of disaster. Blasphemy against the Spirit evidently is not just a one-time offense; rather, it is an ongoing attitude of rebellion – a stubborn way of life that continually resists, rejects and insults the Holy Spirit. This is what makes it, in effect, an eternal sin (Mark 3:29). Blasphemy against the Spirit is not unforgivable because of something done unintentionally in the past, but because of something being done deliberately and unrelentingly in the present.”

So if you’re an authentic Christian, don’t spend time fretting over whether you have accidentally committed this unforgivable offense. “There is no biblical evidence that a genuine Christian can commit this (unforgivable) sin,” says the Apologetics Study Bible. “Fear that one has done so is probably a good sign that one hasn’t, for full-fledged apostasy is a defiant rejection of everything Christian and lacks the tender conscience that would be worried about such an action.”

Lee answers reader questions like this in each issue of his Investigating Faith newsletter, which you can sign up for on Lee’s site or at our newsletter sign up page.

(www.biblegateway.com/newsletters)

(www.leestrobel.com)