Excerpt from The Fulfilled Marriage: The Three Doors by Ted Dean One morning in the spring of 2018, I awoke at my usual time. But before I could begin to rise from the bed, I experienced a vision (certainly not a common experience for me) that shook me to the core, and to a great…
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Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Ephesians 5:1-2, New International Version (NIV) We currently have two A Marriage Made In Heaven classes running simultaneously utilizing the Zoom virtual classroom technology. This week, students…
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Even before the creation, God chose marriage as the incubator and crucible where a man and a woman, living in a “oneness-relationship” would learn to become more like Him. Even though Adam and Eve failed God’s plan, we as His adopted children can in many ways pick-up where they left off. Your new birthright as…
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We are about to start another series of A Marriage Made In Heaven courses which we’ll be facilitating locally and online. Last evening, I was pondering, “What is the one thing I could tell participants that would help them to get the very most out of the course?” Even though marriage is a very complicated and…
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Over the past ten years, Esther and I have been proclaiming that “Christians should have the very best marriages within every culture.” Unfortunately, very few couples reveal to their neighbors that their faith makes any difference in the quality of their marriages. It is not only possible to have a marriage full of love…
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For the first time, we have completed both A Marriage Made in Heaven and Fulfilled Marriage classes utilizing Zoom, a simplified free or low-cost video conferencing program that anyone can utilize. The Fulfilled Marriage Course was completed in six sessions. The Marriage Made In Heaven Course took ten weeks. The Fulfilled Marriage course is especially adaptable to…
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One of the most important aspects of undertaking any endeavor is to set as high as possible goals for all those things that are most important. If we limit our life goals by what we have attained through our learning and our experiences at a particular moment, we are likely settling for less than what would have…
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One of the most serious mistakes that many Christians make is to believe that God’s personality somehow changed from the “vindictive” in the Old Testament to more merciful in the New Testament. Within the enormous timeframe of the Old Testament, which covers the period from Genesis to four hundred years before Christ, there are numerous…
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Have you ever had a quiet moment when all of a sudden an illumination of understanding comes that is so monumental it decisively reorients your understanding? Early this morning while I was simply at rest and not mentally engaged in any particular thought, I had just such an experience. It didn’t come accompanied by…
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Love and marriage, love and marriage, Go together like a horse and carriage. This I tell ya, brother, you can’t have one without the other. Frank Sinatra, 1953 Automobiles are designed with their power sources, engines, or electric motors, located in three possible locations: front, middle, or rear. Marriage, however, is designed to operate…
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