Marriage & Family Life

Dearly Beloved, It is with great joy and gratitude to God that I welcome you to the Blog The Lighthouse. You may want to ask what a lighthouse is and who is the Lighthouse? The Webster dictionary defines a lighthouse as a tall permanent structure equipped with a usually revolving beacon light giving a signal to […]

As Christian couples we are called to walk in unity of heart and purpose with our spouses. The issue of the place of worship is one of such areas we must agree to walk together in unity. Amos 3:3 says “Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?” In Amos’s question the word “together” means to walk as

To cherish your husband is not to treat him like “a breakable plate”, but to treat his successes, his secrets, his self-image, his thoughts, his opinions, and his heart like “a breakable plate” treasuring and caring for the details that make up his person. Most of us married our husbands because there was something about them that we cherished and admired,

“We have to stop asking of marriage what God never designed it to give: perfect happiness, conflict-free living, and idolatrous obsession”. Instead, we can learn to appreciate what God designed marriage to provide: partnership, spiritual intimacy and the ability to pursue God together. So, what is the most common misconception Christians have about marriage? “Finding a ‘soul mate’ —

From the beginning God’s Heart desire to build a dwelling place for Himself in the Earth is seen in His creation of man and woman together Gen1:26-28. The family is the foundation of the Lord’s House on earth. It is the foundation of the human society. It is the institution created by God for bringing

Marriage is the most basic of human relationships, it is within marriage that individuals have their emotional, physical, familial and financial needs met. Marriage is serious business; the choice of a marriage partner is perhaps the most important decision to be made in life. No other relationship greatly influences every other areas of life. However,

There are very few husbands today who feel like they do not have enough to do. It is quite the opposite! Our husbands sometimes feel overwhelmed by the enormous tasks and obligations that they are responsible for such as (church, work, home, wives and children). In the midst of all this, it is easy to

 The Bible is very clear about this subject. God is not the Author of confusion 1Cor14:33, so in order for there to be sanity in the home, He placed every member of the home under divine roles. The troubles we experience in the home today is largely due to our refusal to play our roles as specified

In the last issue of the Lighthouse blog we looked at the biblical responsibilities of the husband, in this write up we shall be looking at the covenant responsibilities of the wife. As a wife you are a crown to your husband, a crown relates to wisdom, a crown encircles the head. Wisdom, in effect, surrounds

Eccl4:9-12 “Two are better than one because they have a good reward for their labor. For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him that is alone when he falleth, for he hath not another to help him up. And if one prevails against him, two shall withstand him; and