Encourage One Another (and build each other up!)

-Not by BonbonLemon For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.    Ephesians 6:12

-By BonbonLemon Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.    Ephesians 5:22-24

-By Kalena Come as you are, attitude and all, but be ready for you to change, not them. I’m embarrassed to admit publicly that I had been struggling for years with looking down on my husband—viewing him critically, cynically, even frequently taking jabs at him. It felt awful. I was angry all the time, and I couldn’t seem to stop. Nothing I was doing was working, and I was exhausting both of us. Later, my husband confessed that he felt like I didn’t respect him—and honestly, that had become true. I had grown dissatisfied and justified in my impossible expectations, not just for myself but for others too. Strangers, coworkers, easy peezy, I felt like I had this Christ thing in the bag. But the people in my own home? No agape love in sight. It was more like, “you hurt me, I hurt you”—maybe not so dramatic, but internally there was a constant storm of anger and criticism. It reminds me of two scriptures, one that I might be taking slightly out of context but that convicts me none the less:...