Making Your

Marriage Great
Doctor to patient’s wife:
“Mam, I don’t like the
way your husband looks’.
 Woman:
“Neither do I, but he is
really good to the kids”.
Making Your Marriage
Great
Marriage Report Card
• Over all

A+
• Husband
• Wife
 Alternate Titles:
• Making Marriage Work
• Six Easy Steps To a Great Marriage
• All God Says About Marriage in 30
Minutes
• The Most Important Skills in
Marriage
• I’ll tell you part, the rest is in my
book at $15.95
 How Being a Strong Christian
Will Help You Have A Happy
Marriage
• Christians are concerned about others.
• Christians practice love.
• Christians want the best for others.
• Christians have a positive sexual ethic.
• Christians can forgive.
 How Being a Strong Christian
Will Help You Have A Happy
Marriage
• Christians make good fathers and
mothers.
• Christians provide for their own.
• Christians are kind.
• Christians are unselfish.
Now My Thoughts . . .
 Make A Commitment
• “Till death do us part.”
• The Case for Marriage
• 86% of the people who said that
they were unhappy were happy five
years later.
• Commitment lets us work through
problems.
 Make it a Priority
• Continue to work at marriage.
• If you do not love each other, when
the kids leave,--- you will be lost.
• The greatest thing you can do for
your children is to love your spouse.
 Make Marriage Fun!
• Some middle age crisis are because
all the fun has gone out of marriage.
It is all work and no play!
• Enjoy each other.
• Ecclesiastes 9:9: “Enjoy life with
the wife of your youth.”
• Enjoy sex: Song of Solomon.
• Learn to have fun with little money.
Learn to Communicate,
Talk, and Fight!
• Learn to listen.
• Learn to talk.
• Be friends first!
• Learn to fight fair.
My wife & I never fight . . .
“But sometimes you
can hear us
reasoning things out
for several blocks.”
Deal with your Demons!
• Find out what you are doing
to harm your marriage and
heal it.
• Financial irresponsibility
• Temper
• Pornography
• Substance Abuse
• You name it!
Have God at the center
of your life
From God we learn the marriage
skills of:
–Kindness
–Forgiveness
–Unconditional Love
–Faithfulness
• God will help us!
 The love of Christ and the
church is the model for us!
25 “Husbands, love your wives, just as
Christ loved the church and gave
himself up for her 26 to make her
holy, cleansing her by the washing
with water through the word, 27
and to present her to himself as a
radiant church, without stain or
wrinkle or any other blemish, but
holy and blameless.”
 The love of Christ and the
church is the model for us!
28 “Inthis same way, husbands
ought to love their wives as their
own bodies. He who loves his
wife loves himself. 29 After all, no
one ever hated his own body, but
he feeds and cares for it, just as
Christ does the church— 30 for
we are members of his body.”
It is worth the effort to
have a better marriage!
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