From this moment on I have two main purposes for my life: To serve the LORD Jesus Christ with all my heart, soul, mind, and strength, and to present you to him at the end of your life without stain, wrinkle, or blemish. To accomplish this I promise to pray with you daily, to surrender my life and my selfishness to you more and more everyday, to listen and really understand what you are saying, to fill your life with fun and excitement, to work hard to provide everything you need, and to never leave you. All these are impossible without the help of God. With his guidance, your life will be extraordinary. To have you as my wife is a blessing beyond measure. I am honored to be your husband
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Receiving the Vows
Receiving love from someone, even in moments when you don’t want to, is a strong statement of trust, humility, and gratitude. Receiving your spouse’s promise to love faithfully, especially in moments where you might not clearly see it acted on, is an even stronger statement of faith in God to uphold the promise in all circumstances.
With both the wedding vows and the ring vows, consider taking the time in your ceremony to acknowledge and receive the commitment your spouse is making to you. You can add a spoken acknowledgment that your guests can hear or you can make it a private look in each other’s eyes or a squeeze of your hands that is just between the two of you in order to say, “Yes, I receive your promise for our marriage.”
New Bride Book!
The Purposed Bride is a perfect companion to your favorite practical wedding-planning guide. From managing your wedding-season relationships and planning the event’s particulars to preparing a life with your fiancé, The Purposed Bride offers a Scriptural principle, Bible-based instruction, a practical activity, and a relevant prayer for each wedding topic. With the help of The Purposed Bride, your wedding will be well on its way to being an intentional, fruitful experience of worship designed in God’s image and in your unique personality.
True Grit
Your marriage can be a testimony as you commit to each other against the grain of our era. Just as Jesus has loved you, when you love one another, others will know that you are Christ’s disciples (John 13:34-35).
Thought for the Week: 2 Kings 22:13
Lord, loyal and devoted One, may my faithfulness to my marriage vows be worship unto You. Remind me annually, monthly, weekly, and even daily what I promised You and my husband. I desire to walk in Your ways and to bring You glory with my marriage. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
For Better AND for Worse
One of the most tragic language errors I have ever heard is using “for better or for worse” in wedding vows. The word or means one or the other, not both. Committing to marriage “for better” is easy, so naturally, that would be the one a bride and groom would choose to fulfill if they are vowing for better or for worse.
Philippians 4:8 in Marriage: True
In moments of conflict with your husband, give him the benefit of the doubt. Believe that he is on your team and that his words and actions that express otherwise are coming from an immediate emotion, not from the truth of his heart. You can deal with immediate emotions more tactfully when you don’t buy into the lie that these emotions characterize your husband’s identity and thus your marriage.
Spectacularly…
I’m always surprised when I hear a fresh wedding homily, and yet, I’ve never heard two alike. I think my surprise is due to the fact that so many of them are so seriously great that I can’t imagine the pastor ever using a different one. Praise the Lord that He keeps His Truth spoken in fresh ways.
Cultural Wedding Traditions
I love ethnic weddings! Seeing the bride’s and/or groom’s cultural traditions displayed through her and/or his music, attire, ceremony, food, or dancing is an extremely tangible demonstration of keeping a wedding in the personality of the bride and groom. I truly believe those are the best weddings. I was at a wedding where the bride’s…continued here
Purity Ring at Your Wedding?
Some women have been celebrated in their teens with a purity ring. Their fathers or their churches have elevated the status of marriage, of sexuality, and of womanhood and have offered these women a choice to uphold the sanctity of those even then as they were just teenagers. If the women accepted this purity covenant,…continued here