Relationships

Deployment is always challenging for a military family. From setting priorities to parenting to prayer to protection.  But when deployments end, some struggles are just beginning.  There are time-tested ways you can prepare your marriage for what has become a necessary part of a military career. We have compiled definite steps you can take now to address the challenges you are facing and face reintegration with confidence. Use these seven days of encouragement as you reintegrate after deployment!

Reintegration After Deployment

This plan is adapted from Dr. Kim’s book “7 Secrets to an Awesome Marriage." The secrets of START, STOP, CONNECT, ENGAGE, BALANCE, MINGLE, and FIGHT become steps that will help a couple have the marriage that God designed for them. 

7 Secrets to an Awesome Marriage

The Marriage Talks is the ideal plan for couples or small groups who want to understand what the Bible says about marriage as they grow their relationship together. Part 2 focuses on two marriage essentials: love and respect. Listen together as Kris Langham guides you through key Bible passages, and discuss together the differences between his and her love languages and respect languages. Great for groups or marital/premarital counseling.

The Marriage Talks Part 2 | Love & Respect

We tend to communicate through the ways we primarily like to receive love, so it can be a game changer to know and act on what really speaks to your spouse’s heart! This 5-day plan by Tiffany Miller unpacks what scripture says about how to demonstrate love well in your marriage, and gives you tools to engage with your spouse in ways that will truly speak to them. 

Speak to Their Heart: 5 Ways to Love Your Spouse Well 

This 16-day devotional (with two catch-up days) was written for couples in ministry roles by couples in ministry roles. At Leading and Loving It, we believe that ministries will not be healthy unless marriages are healthy first. You and your spouse will discuss a variety of topics including communication, finances and sexual intimacy!

Healthy Practices Of Ministry Couples

Without a doubt, life can get super busy as we try to have good marriages, train up our kids, and do all the things, but there is help! We are surely not alone in the process. Join me for this life-changing 4-day devotional. Together with God, the Holy Spirit, the Bible, and some practical tips, we can manage marriage, motherhood, and ministry, well. Download it today and let's get started!  

Life Management - Managing Marriage, Motherhood, & Ministry With Courtnaye Richard

Rodney & Michelle Gage’s book Family Shift offers a proven 5-Step framework designed to help families & couples stop drifting and start living with greater intention. This devotional is designed to help you make necessary shifts in your most important relationships. 

Family Shift

All men want a mission. We want to make a difference. But before we embark on that mission, we must know that we are Beloved Sons of God. Otherwise, we’ll fight bravely but die quickly in battle; whether that battle is in the workplace, on the internet or in our own homes. Join us.

The Heart of a Warrior

Your marriage is your most important relationship here on earth. So it makes sense – doesn’t it? – to invest in it, to prioritise it. Yet so often in the busyness of daily life, it can be all too easy to overlook your marriage… and find that you’re growing apart from your spouse. Join Christianityworks’ Berni Dymet and learn how to build your marriage, with this new video devotional series.

My Best for My Marriage: Video Devotions

What’s the secret to living “happily ever after”? A good marriage isn’t going to just happen; it requires some give and take…and a willingness to let God direct you all along the way. In this 5-day study, Joyce shares biblical principles and lessons from her and Dave’s more than 54 years of marriage to help you cultivate a greater relationship than you ever thought possible. 
 


Keys to a Stronger Marriage

Marriage

As we look at real life lessons from our biblical Anti-hero Sampson, we can find wisdom and direction from God’s Word on ‘how to be single.’ If you are needing some clear ‘what not to do in relationships’ this is for you. Whether you’re a young adult, teen, recently divorced—or even in a relationship that might need to end; my prayer is that through this devo you will find strength + a clear reason to hold out for the person that God has prepared for you. This 5-Day Plan is narrated by the author.

Strength for Singles - Lessons From Sampson

This plan is for all Christian couples, those getting ready to walk in covenant and those who have already made the vow before God and man, to do all of those things "until death do us part."  This five-day devotional focuses on Pastor Tai and Dr. Sh'nai's 5 pillars for creating a dynamic relationship with your partner.

The 5 Pillars of Dynamic Christian Couples

There is life and death power in sex and romance. You are destined for impact and you have the ability to protect your future by living carefully right now. This 12-day devotional based on Swipe Right by Levi Lusko goes through scripture and real life examples to help you train today for the relationship you want tomorrow.

Swipe Right: The Life and Death Power of Sex and Romance 

Taken from his book "The Sacred Search," bestselling author Gary Thomas challenges you to think beyond finding a "soul mate" and to look for a "sole mate" - someone who will walk with you on your spiritual journey. Great insights on relationships, dating, boyfriends, and girlfriends; ensuring that you share a spiritual mission, not just a skin-deep attraction.

The Sacred Search by Gary Thomas

With many competing ideologies about what manhood is, The roMANtic Plan seeks to reintroduce the world to the godly man. He carries the image of God and walks with and on purpose here in this world. He sacrifices, looking out not only for his own interests but also for the interests of others, making him useful in God's hands and effective in his earthly dominion. Start the plan for more...


RoMANtic: Reclaiming Manhood

Christianity is not supposed to be comfortable and convenient. If you stand for God, many times you may find yourself standing alone. One of the biggest challenges we face in a culture that is increasingly anti-Jesus, is loneliness. This plan will explore how to cope with loneliness by building a deeper relationship with God. By learning this we will never truly be alone.

Christian Loneliness

Have you ever ditched a friend for a guy? Found yourself jealous because that other girl gets all the dates? Maybe it's time to get lost- in God. Discover how to get so lost in God that a guy has to seek Him to find you. Dannah Gresh traces God's language of love through Scripture to help you seek love the way God designed it to be. 

Get Lost: Love Feast

Just as nature cycles through seasons, relationship go through four important stages that will either make or break your love life: Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter. No matter your relationship status, join licensed professional counselor and relationship expert, Debra Fileta, and learn how to navigate through love in every season. 

Love in Every Season

Living out God’s plan for your relationships . . . A middle school devotional designed to complement the teaching series, “Awkward.” In this devotional you’ll find encouragement to live out God’s plan for your relationships with integrity and wisdom in the way you treat both others and yourself. 

Awkward

Whether you’re single or in a relationship, there are things you can do now to prepare yourself for marriage. In this 5-day devotional, we’re sharing practical tips, spiritual truths, and four ways to prepare yourself to be the best godly wife you can be.

A Woman's Guide to Preparing Yourself for Marriage

Dating

This reading plan is based upon Cindy Beall's book, Healing Your Marriage When Trust Is Broken. Learn how to find hope and healing for your wounded marriage as you navigate the waters of betrayal. Cindy, and her husband, Chris, have walked out their healing by trusting in God's mighty power and encourage you to join them on this healing journey.

Healing Your Marriage When Trust Is Broken

During divorce and other extremely difficult times, there comes a moment when you will wonder if you will ever make it. Over the next 7 days, you will be able to connect with God through prayers, advice, and action plans. Learn to not just survive, but survive and thrive.

Divorce To Healing: Survive And Thrive

The heartbreak, the lost love, the grief and the shame that comes with unwanted divorce doesn’t have to stay forever. You don’t need to go through this alone. In this study, we’ll learn how we can lean heavily on God’s strength despite life’s most troubling events.

UNCOMMEN: Surviving Divorce

What you know is what gets you through. If you don’t know the right things when the rouge winds and tsunamis of life come, you’re going to fall over.  But if our lives are built on the rock solid, bedrock truth of the Bible, we know some unchanging truths.

How To Get Through What You're Going Through

This 15 day reading plan offers biblical insight for personal growth and wholeness from doctors Henry Cloud and John Townsend—bestselling authors of How People Grow and the Boundaries series. The devotions are perfect for those entering new phases of life or dealing with difficult relationships. Readings provide help in translating God’s Word into a plan for staying spiritually healthy.

Henry Cloud & John Townsend - Life Journey

Is your identity tied in your accomplishments, people or even your past?  Do you know who you are? Are you seeking validation from people to determine your worth? No longer live with the perception that your identity is determined by an accumulation of life events.   In this Bible plan, readers will discover that their identity is found in Christ and not the Crises of life’s experiences. 



Identity Crisis

Las rupturas son dolorosas e incómodas, y muchos de nosotros tendremos que caminar este oscuro y solitario camino. Para mí, es una de las cosas más difíciles sobre las que escribir o hablar: el dolor de la intimidad que no llegó al matrimonio. Así que aquí hay nueve lecciones para crear esperanza y amar a otros cuando se termina un “casi matrimonio”.  


Más allá del dolor de la ruptura

Everyone wants to experience a great marriage that lasts. The most effective and satisfying way to achieve that worthy goal is by consulting the One who created marriage in the first place. With compassion, transparency, and engaging storytelling, we will unpack what marriage really is, why God created marriage, and the unique roles both a man and a woman play in their marriage. A marriage that works is worth the work!

Marriage That Works

We must prioritize our marriage if we plan to make it “until death do us part!” After 34 years of marriage, having 4 kids in 5 years, and enduring hardships and teenage rebellion, Roxanne shares her top marriage nuggets to help you establish the priority of a lifelong love.

Marriage Matters

Divorce is messy. In the aftermath, relationships with your ex-spouse and children can be tense. We invite you to follow along with this seven-day devotional where we’ll find transformation, healing, and victory in Jesus Christ, even in the aftermath of divorce.

UNCOMMEN: Broken

Divorce

Society has it’s own definition of what it means to love and what true love is. However, that definition and God’s definition are very different. This 7-day devotional is designed to take you on a journey through God’s love in both the Old and New Testaments. Each day, a definition of God’s love will be explained through scripture and then defined in everyday language.  Let's get started! Go to afterthemusicstops.org for the full length version of this plan. 



What is Love? God's View On Love And Relationships

When we spend our first energy tending our relationships, including our relationship with God, all of our needs will be met.

Building Healthy Relationships: Devotions From Time of Grace

Parenting Teens/Tweens

Marriage is a blessing from God, but because we are flawed individuals, it can be hard at times. This reading plan offers words from God’s Word about common marital issues.

Marriage Is Hard

It seems like relationships are everywhere you look. Whether you’re in one, waiting for one, or happily single, we can all work on the common denominator in our relationships—ourselves. In this 5-day Plan, we’ll look at what it means to be dateable—and you may be surprised.