If you’ve ever gotten what you wanted and still felt restless, you’re not alone and you’re not crazy. We’ve all chased that next fix for happiness in marriage and family life, only to find it slips through our fingers like trying to nail down a cloud. That’s why we’re launching a new series called The Bible for Marriage, because our opinions cannot compete with the clarity and power of God’s Word.

We start by naming the real problem behind so many marriage struggles: worship. What has our attention, what are we trying to please, and where do we expect satisfaction to come from? With Ecclesiastes in view, we talk about the dead-end of “if only” thinking and the exhaustion of chasing the world’s version of a blessed life.

Then we open Matthew 5 and slow down in the Beatitudes. We explain what “blessed” means, why Jesus begins the Sermon on the Mount this way, and how these promises are anything but vague. We walk the Beatitudes as a refining process for the heart: being emptied through poverty of spirit, mourning, and meekness; being filled by hungering and thirsting for righteousness; then living it out through mercy, purity, peacemaking, and perseverance when righteousness is resisted. We bring it home to marriage with practical, Scripture-shaped questions that help you assess what you’re pursuing and how God is calling you to love your spouse.

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