Coupled With Christ Ministry

Helping husbands and wives learn to do marriage God’s way. Brother Michael and Sister Theresa McCabe will lead you through what the Bible has to say about marriage and how to do marriage God’s way.

As a society, we have lost our way when it comes to marriage. I believe our culture—Christian culture and American culture—needs to understand better why God created marriage. God makes these purposes clear in Genesis 1.

“Let us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the cattle, over all the earth and over all the creeping things that creep on the earth.” So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. Then God blessed them, and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.” (Genesis 1:26-28)

These verses show us God’s four purposes of marriage.

1. To replicate God’s nature and image on the earth.

2. To extend God’s Kingdom authority on the earth.

3. To generationally perpetuate the nature of God and the values of His Kingdom.

4. To multiply God’s human family with righteous offspring.

All of these four reasons reveal why we must fight for this institution that God loves. Marriage is not just another relationship, but a key part of God’s plan. It is the foundation of society and a holy institution that reflects our Creator.

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Couples Corner

October 2024

Monthly Devotional for a Great Marriage

In the sixty plus years that I have walked this earth I have seen some amazing advances in technology. Let’s face it, when I was a kid the first TV came out. It had a round screen and a black and white picture, and we had a choice of three channels. I remember the first heart transplant performed and we even knew his nurse. She was a friend of the family. I saw monkeys go into outer space and a man walk on the moon. But as a “trekkie” (Star Trek fans were called Trekkies) when we first saw desktops but laptops and iPads and touch screens and advancement after advancement. What comes out today is obsolete tomorrow. Then thee are the hand help communicators, seriously now. Who doesn’t have a cell phone? I remember my first cell phone; it was a phone in. a bag that hooked into my cigarette lighter. It had an antenna and cord like a house phone and even had a rotary dial. (might have to explain that to the kids) Now, I have moved up to a more technologically advanced phone and I am even texting on a daily basis. Brother Dan, the assistant pastor of our church, says I need to update to a smart phone, but I just can’t have a phone smarter than I am; so, I stick to the one I am comfortable with. However, there is one thing I won’t do without and that is my bluetooth. I use it every day so that I can work and talk or drive and talk. My only complaint about my Bluetooth is that it occasionally will disconnect itself from communication with the phone. It refers to it as “lost connection”. I simply don’t understand how it can lose connection when it hasn’t moved; it is still just as close to the phone as it was when it said, “Phone one connected.”

Although, I have come to grips with the temperamental nature of my bluetooth, it made me realize that we suffer the same problems in our marriages. We live in the same house, sit at the same table for dinner, and even sleep in the same bed, but upon occasion we lose connection. We stop sharing the inner most feelings we once shared and speak only about the little things that have to be done. “The kids have ball practice”, or “We need to pic up some groceries”, or “When are you going to mow the lawn?” Next time you find yourself slipping into surface level communication with the one you love, STOP! Check your connection. You see, when communication dies, the marriage is on the road to failure. There is nothing wrong with taking a cue from the commercials, “CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?”

Take time to check your connection!

Written by:

Michael and Theresa McCabe

August 2024

Monthly Devotional for a Great Marriage

One of the sweetest memories I have of my daughter was the first time she got dressed up in her new dress with those cute patent leather shoes and the little lacy white socks folded down to her ankles. As she sahayed into the room where I was, she twirled around holding the ends of her skirt and asked me, “Daddy, am I beautiful?” What father of a little girl could answer anything buy, “Yes you are, my precious!”

I know there are other fathers out here who have had similar experiences with their daughters, who have through the years had the pleasure of watching their daughters grow up into young women, and even in some cases get married. As fathers we might find it difficult to be replaced by some new man in our daughter’s life. In fact, that is most likely what was going

through your father-in-law’s mind when he had to put up with you.

So, I am going to let you in on a little secret that took me years to learn and understand. You see, the lovely lady that became your wife, no matter how confident and self-assured she appears to be on the outside, still has that little girl looking for approval on the inside. The only thing is she is not looking to her daddy for approval, she is looking to you. So when she spends the time getting ready to go out with you and your only comment when she comes our it, “About time you got finished; we are gong to be late!”, you just crushed her spirit. Look at it from her point of view; she just spent maybe and hour or more fixing her hair, her makeup, her nails, picking out the right outfit, shoes, selecting the right perfume to wear – all to make and impression on you. She wanted you to say how beautiful she looked, just like the litter girl and her father.

One of our jobs as husbands is to edify our wives, build them up, to make them secure in who they are and what they are doing. So the next time your wife takes the time to make herself beautiful for you, try saying something nice. You look fine; of course, you look fine in the other five outfits you put on doesn’t work. Here are some suggestions. Wow! You look magnificent! Now, I remember why I married you! Were are we going and who am I supposed to be sharing you with?

If this is too much work for you, don’t be surprised when your wife stops trying!