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Unity With Your Spouse

This is the third post in a series highlighting key lessons I’ve learned over the past 15 years exploring simple/house/organic church with my family and friends.  “So they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore, what God has joined together, let no one separate.” Matthew 19:6 (NIV): Marital Unity and Simple Church There is an overarching lesson that I’m sure will be referenced in many of these entries over the next several months, and it deserves its own post. That lesson is this: simple church is more about what God wants to do in you than what you are going to do for Him. Today, I want to focus on how this lesson applies to married couples exploring simple expressions of church. For those with spouses, simple church often becomes about cultivating unity in… Read More »Unity With Your Spouse

Your Marriage Is A Ministry – Keep it Simple Podcast #137

Reminder: This Sunday evening is our House Church Connect Dinner! RSVP today! 5-6:30pm! Details on our website! For those of you who are married, do you look at your life together as a ministry? Do you think about all the people you will influence during your lives? Today, Tom and Gavin talk about a little known, but very influential couple from the book of Acts named Priscilla and Aquila and the tremendous influence they had on Paul, Apollos, the Church then and Christianity today. Thanks for liking and subscribing and sharing! Comments also are always welcome! Also available in audio only: Spotify link: https://tinyurl.com/msmwe4n6Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/45n9j3u5 visit the podcasts website: www.keepitsimplepodcast.com More information on simple church and to this Sunday’s dinner here: www.SimpleChurchAlliance.com #housechurch #simplechurch #organicchurch#Christianity #marriage  

Every “Christian” Couple Should Talk About This

As my wife Karla and I have had the opportunity for informal premarital counseling experiences with several young couples, our own marriage has been strengthened as we have helped guide others through the process of answering some important questions: “Where will we live?”  “How will we raise our children?”  “How will we handle our finances?”   I believe that a continual open dialogue about these questions and others are essential for the unity of husband and wife as well as enjoyment of the marriage relationship.  For Christians, however, there is one question that precedes all of these important marriage questions.  I find, though, that this one gets much less attention than it deserves. “How are we, as a couple/family, going to actively participate in the Great Commission?” Even more specifically, I like to ask the… Read More »Every “Christian” Couple Should Talk About This