The Thieving Idol that Drains Your Relationships of Joy

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The Thieving Idol that Drains Your Relationships of Joy By Tom Holladay (Bible Gateway Blog). What does your idealized family evening look like? Mine might look something like this: You get home from work at exactly 5:15 — because the freeways once again parted like the Red Sea for you on your drive home. Everyone rushes to meet you at the door . . . Continue Reading Why We Kissed Date Night Goodbye By Cherie Lowe (Bible Gateway Blog). Before we even began paying off debt, Brian and I broke up. We called it quits. We said not necessary, so long, sayonara. Let me explain. In the early years of our marriage, a recurring piece of advice seemed to float around at many of our outings. In seminars, in small groups, during sermons, we repeatedly heard that in order to remain happily married, we needed one thing . . . Continue Reading Can Science Explain All the Complexities of Our World? By Lee Strobel (Bible Gateway Blog). Allan Rex Sandage, the greatest observational cosmologist in the world—who deciphered the secrets of the stars, plumbed the mysteries of quasars, revealed the age of globular clusters, pinpointed the distances of remote galaxies, and quantified the universe's expansion through his work at the Mount Wilson and Palomar observatories—prepared to step onto the conference platform. Everyone was in for a big surprise. . . . Continue Reading Dating the Person You Never Thought You'd Date By Debra Filita (Bible Gateway Blog). We live in a society that is so fixated on knowing others. Young men and women are encouraged to get out there and date, to get to know people in the hope of finding a permanent match. They spend months — even years — in pursuit of the person they hope to spend the rest of their lives with, forgetting that the rest of their lives in marriage involves not just one individual but two. . . . Continue Reading   - Want more? Subscribe to one or more of the following devotional email newsletters published jointly by Bible Gateway and Zondervan: Boundaries (weekly) Investigating Faith with Lee Strobel (weekly) The Daniel Plan (weekly) Christine Caine (weekly) The Daniel Prayer (a 5-day devotional journey) The Seven Money Types (a 9-day Bible study) Care Instructions for a Life Worth Living with John Ortberg (weekly) - join Zondervan on social media  This email was sent to mucomacamucomaca.muco@blogger.com by Bible Gateway, 3900 Sparks Drive SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546 USA. This email is part of a devotional or newsletter that you signed up for on BibleGateway.com. For information regarding our privacy policy, click here. If you have questions or comments about this newsletter, please contact us. Manage all Bible Gateway subscriptions — Opt Out of all Bible Gateway communication -