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Mission Trip Coming Up

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Rebekah and I have been invited to come to the Czech Republic in September to do three conferences.  We have been asked to do our “How to Save Your Marriage Alone” seminar, a women’s conference, and a men’s conference.  The Czech Republic is a small country in central Europe.  It used to be part of Czechoslovakia, and it was a communist nation up until 1989.  The Czech Republic has the highest divorce rate in the European Union, so we are glad for this opportunity.  We have ministered there twice in the past. In 2007 we did a marriage conference and a premarital conference (students from several colleges and high schools attended this one).   We also did a men’s meeting and a women’s meeting.  God really gave us a love for the people there and we look forward to going back.

 

 

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Can You Save Your Marriage Alone?

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Many people are pretty much in their marriage alone.  At worst, their spouse wants a divorce.  At best, their spouse is uninterested, unloving, and cold.  Is it possible for the spouse who wants the relationship to do anything to save it?  The answer is yes.  In fact, most marriages are saved when one spouse, acting alone, takes the initiative to save the marriage.  

I know it can be done because that is the situation we were in 18 years ago.  We were headed for divorce.  A PhD psychologist we were seeing for counseling told us that in her 15 years of practice we were the only hopeless couple she had ever seen.  She told us we needed to get a divorce.   Rebekah didn’t take that as the final answer, though.  She acted alone to save our marriage, and she succeeded. 

The biggest key to success is learning to love your spouse God’s way.  Scriptures like 1 Corinthians 13:4-8 and Ephesians 4:32-42 (especially from the Amplified Bible) describe how God’s love acts.  Our book, Marriage By The Book, and CD series, How to Save Your Marriage Alone, go into a lot of detail on this.

If you are in this situation, know that you aren’t alone, and there is hope.

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Marriage By The Book

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Hello and welcome. I’m Rick Porterfield and this is my first blog. My wife Rebekah and I are Christian marriage ministers. We have been doing this since 1994 and we have seen hundreds of marriages improved and saved. We have seen marriages saved even when marital infidelity was involved. The truth is, any marriage, no matter how bad, can be saved. Also, any marriage, no matter how good, can be made better. Even if you are the only one who wants your marriage (i.e., your spouse doesn’t care) , there are things you can do by yourself to help save your marriage.

On this blog, I will be posting advice and tips to help you have a great relationship.

The first tip is shown above and it is a tip meant to give you hope — any marriage can be saved and any marriage can be made better. This is the absolute truth. The Bible offers the best guidance available for having a great and continuously growing relationship.

Keep checking back, and feel free to visit our website at marriagebythebook.org .

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