Marriage and Family

Family is the structure of civilization, and healthy family relationships give us security, stability, and happiness. Many of us do not have this experience in our pasts, but it is never too late to build up your family moving forward. Ask for God's blessing in your family and use these resources to work toward a peaceful, happy family.

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How to Make Your Marriage Last

The institution of marriage is in deep trouble. About half of all marriages end in divorce, and many couples don’t bother to even get married at all. What are they missing? What are the keys to a lasting marriage?
Sermon

The Restoration of Family Families are in crisis in our modern world.

Families are in crisis in our modern world. God is the author of the family unit, which will be restored during Christ's Millennial reign.
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Why Does Marriage Matter?

Marriage is much more than a social arrangement, a physical and emotional pairing, or a financial partnership. It’s also a learning and growing experience meant to help instill in our lives character lessons and spiritual truths that would be difficult...
Magazine Issue

Beyond Today Magazine: November–December 2018

Why is marriage important? For centuries, marriage has been the bedrock of families and civilization. Now we are seeing marriage under attack from all sides. What’s behind the attack on marriage? And what can you do to strengthen your marriage...
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When Baby Makes Three

This message offers timeless tips from God’s Word on how to have a happy family.
Sermon

I've Said "I Do." Now What?

This message offers timeless tips from God’s Word on how to have a happy marriage.
Sermon

Expand Empathy

God lends us children to rear and bring up in the admonition of the Lord. Here are some points that will assist and help us to successfully complete that task.
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Marriage and the Family Part 1: Husbands and Wives

Satan hates the family because it's the tool God is using to build His family. God's people must actively resist Satan's influence and seek to build their marriages daily.
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Why Is Marriage so Important to God?

Why is marriage so important to God? What relationship does marriage picture for us? Learn the answer to these questions and you will understand a truth very few understand.
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Love Without Restraint

We have all read that we are to train up a child in the way he should go but is that all? We will look at another aspect of this that is critical to giving a child a successful foundation…
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A Childlike Attitude: Lessons I Am Learning from My 2-Year Old Grandson

Some things we can learn and adopt in our own life to gain a childlike attitude.
Sermon

The Blessings of Marriage

Marriages that are a major part of society results in a strong and vibrant society. It not only is God's tool for producing many prospective sons and daughters in His Kingdom, but it is for man to learn about relationships…
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Fatherless Families

Do we show the respect we should to fathers or have they become unimportant to society?
Sermon

God Protects the Family

In this sermon Gary Smith follows up his two recent sermons on marriage by focusing on the importance of the family to God and the protections He has established in his Word to safeguard the family.
Sermon

Child Rearing Part 2 - The Role of the Father

Reading through some passages of scripture on the family can make us cringe as they sound so old school and hierarchical. But what is really meant by "man is head of the wife" and what guidance does God give on…
Sermon

Children - Future Leaders in God's Kingdom

God has given our children a very special invitation. He has called them to be in His eternal family. Do we see this great potential for them as parents and friends in the congregation? They are holy to God. Let's…
Sermon

Big Trouble

Second split sermon in Spokane, Washington. Our nation today has a number of characteristics that point to its imminent demise. Staggering debt and breakdown of the family have damaged our society. In the Church, we must draw close to God…
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Gaining While Losing

Working hard to appreciate the body and life God has given us through healthy living.
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Article

Current Events & Trends: Polygamy Still Illegal—but for How Long

In Salt Lake City this year, protesters took to their capitol to speak out against the bigamy laws in Utah. The U.S. Supreme Court recently denied hearing a case that left the state’s current laws untouched. Polygamy still remains illegal...
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Marriage

The principles of a happy marriage are everywhere in the bible. Learn what produces a happy marriage!