Married Life Blog

Book Recommendation- Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 16:00:00 GMT

When it comes to books on marriage there are definately a ton of resources available to couples today. But every once in a while you stumble across a book that makes you stop and think and may even change your paradigm a bit. One of those books for me was Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas.In this book, Gary attempts to set a good biblical view of marriage that is different from what we have traditionally fallen into. Instead of seeing marriage as a second class spiritual state because you weren't h ...

Getaway to San Diego Together

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:00:00 GMT

We have our next MarriedLife marriage retreat coming up on March 7-9 at the Bahia in San Diego in the Mission Bay area. This year we will be talking about learning the skills to implement Relational Intimacy and it should be a great time to get away and spend time with your spouse. As with all our retreats it is limited to the first 50 couples and we are already half full ...

Welcome to the MarriedLIfe Blog!

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:00:00 GMT

Well this is the first of what I hope to be many blog entries that deals with what is happening in couples ministry at Saddleback Church. This will include not only events and things but also reviews and resources to help you grow your marriage on purpose. If you haven't already, take a look at our pathway to help you grow your marriage you can see it under the "Our Plan." On each page we list the events that are coming up and clicking on those links will allow you sign up to let us know you are ...

Do you have the time?

Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:00:00 GMT

When we surveyed the couples in our church this past year one of the biggest issues most couples said they were struggling with was time. Now how you define this issue of time is very important. Many of us would say we see our spouse all the time so it wouldn't seem that time should be an issue. But as you probably have already found out (if you haven't you probably will soon) there is a difference between being in the same space with your spouse and actually spending time FOCUSING on your spous ...