Marriage Ministry Matters ~ September 2016

Welcome to the CMBA Newsletter!

Are you taking time to celebrate your marriage?  When we are in marriage ministry, it is especially important to nurture our own marriages. What are you doing to grow? How do you and your spouse spend time with each other. Are you making sure to have fun together?

In this issue of our monthly newsletter, you will find more information about our October CMBA Blog Challenge, a list of writing ideas for your marriage blog, and an opportunity  to work with a non-profit organization that supports healthy marriages in Iowa.

New Members

The following blogs joined CMBA since our last issue. Please visit their sites and share an encouraging word.

Amanda Davison – Amanda Davison
The Blog of a Forgiven Cheater – Anonymous
Blog Thoughts of Pastor Dave Barringer – Dave Barringer
The reBranded Life – Alex Colón

Please check your listing on the member’s page to make sure that it is accurate and up to date. If it needs to be changed, send an email to Chris at chris@forgivenwife.com.

October Blog Challenge!

The blog challenge this fall is to write a post related to the picture below during the month of October.

The rules are:

1. Your post should relate to the image above.
2. You must give credit to Kate Aldrich Photography, along with a link to her site: http://katealdrichphotography.blogspot.com/. Kate and her husband Brad blog at One Flesh Marriage.
3. When you’ve published your post, add a link in the comments on this newsletter. Participants will be entered into a drawing to win a marriage, writing, or blogging resource from The Marriage Bed. Meanwhile, be sure to visit the other posts and leave a comment!

If you’d like to add a button to let your readers know that you participated in  CMBA blog challenge, you can use this picture:

How Do I . . . ?

A Month of Marriage Blogging Ideas

By Chris Taylor, The Forgiven Wife

Sometimes it seems that half the battle of blogging is just coming up with a topic to write about. When you’re stuck, do a search for “blog writing prompts,” and you’ll hit the jackpot. Much of what you find can be adapted for writing about marriage.

To make it easier on you, here is one month’s worth of daily blog post ideas.

1. A food that reminds you of your marriage
2. Write a love poem for your spouse
3. Write a post inspired by one of these words: love, faith, hope, freedom
4. Your favorite spouse in the bible
5. Your first argument
6. Your first date
7. A list of helpful marriage resources
8. A time you encouraged your spouse
9. A time you stood together as a team
10. A time you were encouraged by your spouse
11. Setting and keeping marriage goals
12. Something you’ve observed in someone else’s marriage
13. Something you’ve seen a couple get right in their marriage
14. Supporting your spouse’s growth
15. Apply a bible verse to marriage
16. Dealing with temptation in your marriage
17. How marriage is like a ____ (tree, truck, mailbox, fork, lamp, highway, etc.)
18. How to recharge with your spouse
19. How you and your spouse met
20. Interview with a newly married couple
21. 3 steps to take when you encounter ___ in your marriage (jealousy, breach of trust, infidelity, refusal to be intimate)
22. 3 things you can do to make ____ better (sex, prayers, dates, parenting, mornings, etc.)
23. 5 ways you can apologize to your spouse
24. 6 ways you can serve others in your marriage
25. Interview with a seasoned married couple
26. One thing you regret that you’ve done in your marriage
27. Review of a marriage book
28. The best gift you gave your spouse
29. The best gift your spouse gave you
30. What I would tell my married-seven-years self about marriage at 25 years
31. Working on yourself as a spouse

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