One of the biggest struggles I see in my practice is a different view of sex than God had intended. With our culture bombarding us with sex from every angle, why are we surprised that it has lost its real meaning? Let’s recall Adam and Eve. Didn’t God create Eve because He knew Adam was [...]

Do you know how many marriages are falling apart around you? Tons! Is yours one of them? Does anyone know? Do you realize your marriage can be different…loving, exciting, mature, peaceful? Do you realize that God created marriage and He wants you to have it abundantly? You may be silently dying inside………You may be secretly [...]

So….most of us see wounding as an awful thing. But it does not have to be. Let’s look at it from a different perspective. I am reading an interesting book that addresses this topic. It says that “at the time wounding takes place it is very difficult but necessary to look at what happened in [...]

Let’s have a discussion……..We are studying the book “Renovation of the Heart”, by Dallas Willard, in our home group every other Sunday night. Tonight we talked about our thought life and how it affects our lives and our actions. I sat there with so much to say, but didn’t say anything. I wasn’t sure if [...]

My heart aches today. The reality of marriages and families falling apart all around us is overwhelming. I am around it all the time being in marriage ministry and being a biblical counselor. My marriage failed once, but God offered us a second chance. And that in itself is surreal. I think the pain I [...]

Author, David Powlison, wrote some incredible words regarding sanctification that fit very nicely with the way of marriage. Sometimes we have lost hope in our marriage but God is always sanctifying us through it. Take these words to heart as you ponder your own marriage and how obedience, perseverance and endurance play a necessary part. [...]

Why is so hard to be a servant to our spouse? Serving is hard isn’t it? It takes being completely selfless, and less self-absorbed. It takes being less selfish and more concerned about our spouse than ourselves. Have you ever tried to serve when you really don’t feel like it? Do you remember the Peace [...]

“Because God did the impossible and healed our marriage after seven years of being divorced…” Jeff & Cheryl Scruggs Hope Matters Marriage Ministries, Inc. exists because my husband and I have a passionate desire to see marriages changed, made whole, and reconciled to replicate God’s plan for marriage, not society’s. Through this ministry, our desire [...]