[notice]A fortnightly column on marriage, family and relationships.[/notice] I met my husband Rest while we were students at the University of Cape Town in 1996. We were friends throughout our remaining years at university. He is from the Bushbuckridge area in Mpumalanga while I am from Port Elizabeth in the […]
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Want to get married? Wait for God’s vision — it will come to pass.
[notice]A fortnightly column on marriage, family and relationships.[/notice]“For the vision is yet for the appointed time; It hastens toward the goal and it will not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; For it will certainly come, it will not delay” (Habakkuk 2:3) If we were to apply this verse […]
Time to clear the junk out of your marriage
[notice]A fortnightly column on marriage, family and relationships.[/notice] Something profound happened to me just before Christmas. I had one of those ‘Aha’ moments that come to people to help them in their decision process. As people were doing their last minute shopping for Christmas and starting to cook their Christmas […]
Hand in hand is the way to go
[notice]A fortnightly column on marriage, family and relationships.[/notice] If you were to closely follow a wedding procession you will realise that the bride and the groom come at different times. It is normally the groom who goes to the altar and waits for his bride. A wedding might take different […]
What if the answer to your prayers brings destruction?
[notice]A fortnightly column on marriage, family and relationships.[/notice] What if the very thing that you prayed for brings destruction? What if the husband that you prayed for brings HIV into the home? He brings so much hurt and pain. You remember the days when it was calm, when there was […]
Love has no limits…or does it?
[notice]A fortnightly column on marriage, family and relationships.[/notice] Every time I hear of a couple divorcing my first thought is “What happened?” I have had this conversation with many married people as I ponder on what happens to two people who really love each other. What happens to the love […]
Let’s bring life to our marriages with our tongues
[notice]A fortnightly column on marriage, family and relationships.[/notice] For we all stumble and sin in many ways. If anyone does not stumble in what he says [never saying the wrong thing], he is a perfect man [fully developed in character, without serious flaws], able to bridle his whole body and […]
A chat with leading marriage mentor, Barb Rosberg
[notice]A fortnightly column on marriage, family and relationships.[/notice] Dr Gary and Barb Rosberg are co-founders of the international ministry America’s Family Coaches, respected marriage conference speakers, executive life and marriage coaches, award-winning authors and radio hosts. Together, they have written over a dozen prominent marriage and family resources and DVD […]
Happy to be single
[notice]Gateway News Reporter Debbie Hemmens writes a message of encouragement to single women — adapted from a talk she presented to a group of single ladies. [/notice] When it comes to unwanted titles, I have one that I would have loved to never have had and that would be ‘infertility’. […]
Your marriage can blossom again!
[notice]A fortnightly column on marriage, family and relationships.[/notice] There is no marriage that starts with divorce in mind. Even the most educated, modern couple, they want their marriage to work. Yes they know about the high divorce rate but they believe that their marriage will be among those that make it. […]