Terrible communication is likely one of the most common roadblocks to healing in broken marriages. Unfortunately, we’re just really, really bad (like as a people) at communicating with each other. We’re selfish, we jump to conclusion, we’re rotten listeners, we assume and presume like nobody’s watching, we manipulate and lie, we spend all kinds of time looking at the faults of others while rarely looking inward to our own faults, and we’re just plain mean to each other. Often times, before we can even think of addressing the larger underlying issues in marriages, we have to first learn to start communicating according to the standards God has laid out for us in Scripture.
So that’s what we’re going to take some time to do. We’re going to open the Word of God together and ask Him to teach us how He wants us to relate to one another. We’re going to learn how to listen. We’ll ask Him to teach us to stop playing the blame-game and take an honest look at ourselves. We’re going to give up all the sinful tactics we use to manipulate and learn to speak the truth in love. Most importantly, by the time we finish this series, I pray we will have the tools we need to communicate openly and honestly within our marriages, having learned to let God handle the responses of our partners.
Proverbs 18:21 talks about how the tongue has the power of life and death, or the power to build up or destroy. Which is why we’re going to close out our Communicating God’s Way series by talking about the importance of taming the tongue. After all, if we could all somehow learn just to control […]
You cannot read the Bible, believe that it’s true, and submit yourself to it’s teachings without understanding the importance of forgiveness! There is no question that believers are called to forgive as they have been forgiven. So today, as we get close to the end of our Communicating God’s Way series, we want to spend […]
It’s true! Telling the truth IS important. If you’ve found this post through search, we’re towards the end of a series on Communicating God’s Way in our marriages. Today we’re talking about the importance of telling the truth. All the time. We want to learn how to recognize actual truth for ourselves, we want to […]
We’re about halfway through a series talking about what it means to communicate God’s way in our relationships. In our last post we talked about some of the most common examples of manipulation in relationships that mess this up. We acknowledged that we all sometimes choose to play games rather than speak plainly and honestly, […]
Manipulation in communication is a HUGE problem in modern relationships. We can’t adequately cover the topic of communication in this series without addressing it. But I believe there are two categories of manipulation we need to address here, and for that reason we’re splitting this topic up into two posts. The reality is, I doubt a single […]
We all know what happens when you assume, right? Let’s just say it’s asinine, and leave it at that. Which is why this week in our Communicating God’s Way series we’re talking all about the negative effects of assumptions and presumptions in our conversations. It’s time to learn a better way to communicate! Just in […]
We’re learning to communicate God’s way as we work our way through a series designed to develop essential communication skills that align with what the Bible says on the issue. Today we’re going to learn to listen. Really listen. Not just to each other, but to God as well. Honestly, if we could all master […]
We’re working our way through a series on communicating God’s way in our marriages. But before we can get into specific communication principles, we need to prepare our hearts. It’s essential that our intentions as we proceed be in line with those of our Heavenly Father. This begins when we learn to practice humility with […]
Terrible communication is likely one of the most common roadblocks to healing in broken marriages. So today we’re starting a series to answer the question, what does the Bible say about communication in relationships? Because we don’t want to spend another day doing things our way. It’s time to start doing it God’s way! So […]
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