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Why I Need This...
by Bill Allison
I was driving home when my cell phone rang. I saw it was my wife, Stacy.
I answered the phone in a low, slow, sexy voice, "Sexy Stud Hotline—can I help you?"
I heard Stacy's voice on the other end—not missing a beat: "I'm sorry—I must have the wrong number. I was trying to reach my husband."
It’s with that spirit of humility (or is it humiliation?) that we offer you the first ever Love and Marriage edition of Cadre Connection.
Your Second Most Important Relationship
While attending a marriage conference on communication, Tom and his wife Peg listened to the instructor declare, “It’s essential that husbands and wives know the things that are important to each other.” The instructor looked at Tom and asked, “Can you describe your wife’s favorite flower?”
Tom leaned over, touched his wife’s arm gently and whispered, “Pillsbury All-Purpose, isn’t it?” This story—like many marriages (including Christian marriages)—doesn’t have a happy ending. But your marital story can be different.
If you’re married and believe the Bible, then you realize that your marital relationship with your spouse is limited to your time here on earth (Mark 12:24-25). Since marriage is only for this side of Heaven, why would you settle for mediocrity in your relationship with your spouse? Time is short! Now is the time to do YOUR part in making your marriage rock. Where can you start? Here are five FREEBIES to encourage and equip you on your journey to a great marriage...
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Putting the Other Back Into One Another
This simple but profound devotional guide helps you explore what it means to live out the “one another” verses in your marriage, family, neighborhood, work, and church! To view, GO HERE. |
 God’s Manual on Love, Courtship, and Marriage
After she woke up, a woman told her husband, “I just dreamed that you gave me a pearl necklace for Valentine’s Day. What do you think it means?”
“You’ll know tonight,” he said.
That evening, the man came home with a small package and gave it to his wife. Delighted, she opened it—to find a book titled, “The Meaning of Dreams.”
True confession: Sometimes, like the man in the story, I just don’t get it. For example, I’ve been a Christian for thirty years, twenty of which I’ve been married. I’m embarrassed to say that it wasn’t until last year that I discovered God’s manual on love, courtship, and marriage—Song of Solomon. For thirty years I’ve held this gem in my hands (along with the other sixty-five books of the Bible) without really grasping God’s clear and beautiful picture of his design for marriage as pictured in SOS. Sure, I read Song of Solomon multiple times in the past, but I never really took time to STUDY it. Last year, I invested a good portion of my devotional time reading, studying, and trying to apply Song of Solomon to my life... and marriage. The picture of marriage in SOS has captured my heart. I offer the following five FREEBIES—including humorous pictures, audio downloads, true stories, a downloadable SOS PDF study guide, and a variety of potential biblical insights on marriage—to get you started—and hopefully hooked—on your own study of Song of Solomon... God’s manual on love, courtship, and marriage. You’ve read Dobson. Great. Now how about God’s book on marriage?
Training and Trainers:
Equip, Converge, and Costa Rica!
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Equip: a training experience especially for junior high students.
* For details about the Equip in Central Florida, GO HERE. |
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Converge: a training experience especially for high school students.
* For details about the Converge in the Chicago area, GO HERE. |
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Cadre Training in Costa Rica! PLEASE PRAY!
* To download our prayer guide, GO HERE. |
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Just for Fun
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Cadre: Equipping Local Churches to Make Volunteers
WILDLY Successful!
Cadre is a not-for-profit ministry [501(c)(3)] that exists to assist
local churches in becoming the greatest volunteer training organizations
in the world. We're asking God to give us 5,000 non-staff trainers who
are obsessed with Ephesians 4:11-12! To pursue certification to take Cadre
training to your church, contact info@cadreministries.com
Cadre staff serve as support-based, God-dependent missionaries to
come alongside volunteers and those who care for volunteers in the church
to help accomplish their God-given mission.
We provide FREE monthly online training for volunteers in the church
(Cadre Connection), for volunteer Jr. High Youthworkers (Batteries Included),
and for Student Leaders (Spiritual Caffeine). Visit www.cadreministries.com
to preview our recent free training or to sign up to receive training
in your email-box monthly.
For more information about bringing a certified Cadre trainer to
coach and train the volunteer teachers, leaders, and youth workers in
your church, contact info@cadreministries.com
For Cadre training resources visit http://www.cadreministries.com/store
All other tax deductible donations can be sent to:
Cadre Ministries
PO Box 278
Sycamore, IL 60178
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