Our articles encourage, educate, and equip church leaders as they serve Christ at their churches.
Jun 30, 2025Watermark Resources
How To Grow Your Marriage
4 ways you can strengthen your marriage When you said, “I do,” you meant it. You looked the love of your life in the eyes and promised that you would cherish and respect them, put them first, and forsake all others to choose them, even in poverty or sickness. But when the hard times actually come, you might wonder if your promise was premature. You didn’t know it would be like this.
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Discipleship
Apr 25, 2025Watermark Resources
Stop Arguing: The Speaker-Listener Technique
A simple method Unfortunately, arguments are often based on misunderstandings rather than actual disagreements—and our closest relationships, with the people who know us best, are often the ones most riddled with miscommunication. We assume we know each other so well that we don’t need to bother clarifying our intentions. We relax the way we communicate. This is especially true between spouses.
Marriage
Discipleship
Church Leadership
Apr 10, 2025Watermark Resources
Want To Help Kids? Shut Down Your Kids Ministry
Investing in the next generation Please don’t misunderstand; God does a lot of incredible work through children’s ministry and youth groups. Kids need places where they can be known, loved, and taught about God. Christians who invest their time and resources into the next generation are faithful servants doing an invaluable job.
Marriage
Church Leadership
Dec 5, 2022Watermark Resources
4 Ways To Care For And Enrich Marriages In Your Church
How to serve marriages in your church It would be impossible to list all the books, retreats, programs, and ministries that exist to serve married couples in the church. It’s appropriate and good that we emphasize this area of care. But the sheer number of options can become overwhelming, and choosing how to best help marriages in each situation takes wisdom and discernment.
Marriage
Church Leadership
Nov 22, 2022Watermark Resources
Marriages Are Your Greatest Discipleship Opportunity
Your biggest discipleship opportunity As church leaders, we know the importance of serving married couples. God has established the importance of marriage, and from a practical perspective, married couples comprise the majority of most congregations. But when serving marriages, we tend to set our sights far too low. Marriage ministry often gets relegated to its own bubble, separate from the overall spiritual shepherding of the church. If this is your church's reality, you are missing out on what is likely your biggest discipleship opportunity.
Marriage
Discipleship
Nov 2, 2022Watermark Resources
How To Help Marriages In Your Church
You Don’t Need a PhD to Help Marriages in Your Church As believers, we know that healing belongs to the Lord. Yet often we focus on our part as his instruments, leading to feelings of inadequacy. God’s people have struggled with these feelings throughout recorded history, as we see in Exodus 3 and 4 when Moses protests that he isn’t the best man for the job God has commanded him to do.
Marriage
Church Leadership
Oct 26, 2022Watermark Resources
How To Counsel Couples Who Have Filed For Divorce
Divorce is heartbreakingly common in the church Since marriage depicts Christ’s union with the church, divorce is one of the most visceral illustrations of sin’s destruction. There’s a reason divorce is widely considered one of the most stressful and painful life events; Christianity is built on God’s unbreakable covenant to us, a love beautifully pictured in the covenant relationship of marriage. Severing a covenant union is never God’s best, and the consequences are always devastating.
Marriage
Care & Recovery
Oct 6, 2022Watermark Resources
The First Steps To Starting A Marriage Ministry
What we've learned the past 14 years Church marriage ministries offer on-ramps into your church for people who might never otherwise come. They establish an authentic and healthy foundation for families and relationships in your body, and they address an obvious and heartbreaking need, as couples within the church continue to separate and divorce at rates comparable to those outside it. But deciding to serve married couples is the easy part; figuring out how to start a marriage ministry is much more complicated. You don’t need any special credentials to do this work--God equips the people he calls--but it does take wisdom and planning. Based on what we’ve learned over the past 14 years running our own marriage ministry, Re|engage, here are the steps you shouldn’t skip:
Marriage
Church Leadership
Dec 20, 2021John McGee
10 Marriage Ministry Mistakes
Mistakes we've observed When I first started working in marriage ministry nearly 20 years ago, I admittedly did not know what I was doing. I was a young guy at a young church that didn’t even have a marriage ministry before I got there. Experience is a great teacher, and I’ve since learned a lot from mistakes—both mistakes I’ve made myself, and lessons learned from other marriage ministers who have shared their stories with me.
Marriage
Church Leadership
Dec 7, 2020John McGee
Your Most Important Christmas Ministry
Prioritize your family For many church leaders, life reaches a fever pitch during the holiday season. You’re probably concerned about making budgets, preparing end-of-year reports, planning the best Christmas Eve service possible—and doing it all with the ongoing challenges of a pandemic. With all of the December activity it can be easy to forget one group: your family.
Marriage
Church Leadership
Aug 12, 2020Watermark Resources
What Is Re|engage?
Born out of burnout You could say that the re|engage ministry was born out of burnout.
Marriage
Discipleship
Aug 3, 2020Watermark Resources
Want A Healthy Church? Work On Your Marriage
The best thing you can do As a pastor, one of the best things you can do for your church is to work on your marriage.
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Church Leadership
