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When You Find True Love — It’s Amazing!

by Marva | Sun Sparkle Shine

Looking for one true love? This love is bigger and more amazing than you ever can imagine. And it's the top way to get swept off your feet. Try it and see. 

The closer we get to Valentine’s Day the stories keep coming. You’ve seen them too. There’s the article about 10 ways to love your spouse,  25 Valentine’s Day gift ideas, how to find true love and the top 10 things to do on Valentine’s Day. Don’t get me wrong. I’m as much a Valentine’s fan as […]

Filed Under: Devotions, Faith, Relationships, Walking with God Tagged With: encouragement for women, God's love, love, true love, Valentine's Day

10 Tips for Wives on how to have a Successful Marriage

by Marva | Sun Sparkle Shine

10 tips for wives on how to have a successful marriage - SunSparkleShine.com #marriage #christianmarriage #marriageadvice

I can’t think of anyone who gets married who doesn’t want a successful marriage. I mean, no one ever goes into it hoping it doesn’t last, right? I’m sure we all want strong, thriving and fulfilling marriages. And while I’m no marriage expert, this year my husband and I will celebrate 15 years of marriage. […]

Filed Under: Christian Living, Relationships Tagged With: christian marriage, love, marriage, marriage advice, relationships

How to live happily ever after (without the fairy-tale romance)

by Marva | Sun Sparkle Shine

What's better than a fairy-tale romance? A love that is complete, unchanging and unending. That’s the kind of love we find in God and it’s the love that the Bible describes so well for us. Look at these scriptures. How many more ways can you describe God’s love?

Ours was a fairy-tale romance. So when he asked me to marry him, I was over the moon. He chose an ordinary day in December 2002 and no day has been ordinary since. Yet, when it comes down to it, there is one who loves me even more. He waits patiently in the wings. Never […]

Filed Under: Christian Living, Faith, Relationships Tagged With: biblical truth, dreams, fairy-tale, God's love, love, marriage, romance, true love, women

5 More Ways to Make Him Significant Again

by Marva | Sun Sparkle Shine

Don’t wait until Valentine’s Day to show your husband how much he means to you. Let your actions speak louder than words with these tips for a significant marriage.

You don’t have to wait until Valentine’s Day to let your husband know how much he means to you. And I don’t mean just showing him with words, either. Why, our actions should speak the loudest. Last year, I wrote a post for the Imperfect Wives series on Busy Being Blessed. That post, 5 Ways […]

Filed Under: Christian Living, Relationships Tagged With: Christian love, love, love one another, marriage, significance, Valentine's Day

An Intimate Portrait of the God Who Pursues You

by Marva | Sun Sparkle Shine

God pursues you relentlessly, tenderly and joyfully. God is so crazy about you that even if you were the only one on the planet He would still run after you. He loves you with an everlasting love, so much so that He gave up His son to pursue you.

When we hear the word pursue, we sometimes think of it only in romantic terms, such as a man pursuing the woman he wants to marry (or vice versa) :-). But what about God? Does God pursue us? And if so, how does he do that? What does God’s pursuit of us look like?

Filed Under: Christian Living, Devotions, Faith Tagged With: devotions, God's love, God's purpose, love, ninety and nine, pursuit, repentance, sin

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