What is A Godly Marriage blog and who are Tim & Crystal Breaux?

Welcome to the blog A Godly Marriage. Our vision for this blog is to help equip you with wisdom and encouragement to have a loving relationship with your spouse (or future spouse), a loving relationship God desires for all marriages.

With the A Godly Marriage blog, we are hoping you will find a way to seek God’s love from within you and have that love rain down on your spouse.  Our desire is to walk with you through this adventure we call marriage.  We are not “the perfect couple” nor do we ever pretend to have all the answers we simply want to share with you what we have learn after 15 years of marriage, 9 years of teaching over 40 different studies about marriage and relationships from a Christian view point. 

Hi, I am Tim and will be playing the role of husband.  I am about as ordinary a man as one can get…height normal, shirt size normal, pant size normal, shoe size normal…heck my favorite ice cream is vanilla!  What might not be so “normal” by the world’s standards is my desire to love my wife as Paul instructs in Ephesians 5:25-33, I love the version in The Message…

^25-28Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church—a love marked by giving, not getting. Christ's love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her, dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness. And that is how husbands ought to love their wives. They're really doing themselves a favor—since they're already "one" in marriage.

 ^29-33No one abuses his own body, does he? No, he feeds and pampers it. That's how Christ treats us, the church, since we are part of his body. And this is why a man leaves father and mother and cherishes his wife. No longer two, they become "one flesh." This is a huge mystery, and I don't pretend to understand it all. What is clearest to me is the way Christ treats the church. And this provides a good picture of how each husband is to treat his wife, loving himself in loving her, and how each wife is to honor her husband

…that is good stuff right there…and hard!!  Am I where I want to be on this Ephesians 5 journey, oh no, but I work at it every good and not so good day.  I am the proud father of Hannah & Zach and my main goal in life is to be as good a husband and father as I can to the three most important people in my life. 

I am making a living as an Instructional Designer (fancy name for I teach on the Internet) with a large hospital system.  I have been a Registered Nurse for 16 years and love serving people both well and sick.  Crystal and I love teaching a Couple’s Class at Christ Community Church.  I look forward to hearing from you and I really hope to move you to love more through this blog.

Hi, I am Crystal and by no means a marriage expert.  I am a wife and mother who desires to be THE WIFE AND MOTHER God created me to be.  The more I learn, the more I realize I need to learn.  Two things that I have come to know:

• You can not assume you have a perfect marriage and do not need to water it
• Without Christ as the center of your marriage and a personal relationship with him, you will never have the marriage God intended you to have.

As a wife, I believe we are to respect and submit (it is really not a dirty word)to our husbands (Ephesians 5:33) as unto the Lord, not just our husband.  God has called us to love him as He loved us.  My prayer is Proverbs 31:28

Her children arise and call her blessed; Her husband also, and he praises her.

I want to conduct myself each day in a manner that gives Tim reason to praise his wife regardless of what may be praiseworthy by the world’s standards. My job is to build him and support him in the awesome responsibility God has given him as the leader of our family.

When I am not working as a wife and mother, I work as the General Manager for a hospital based Wellness center; I teach group fitness classes and I am a personal Wellness Coach.  I have enjoyed the past 9 years being a part of a marriage ministry and teach Couples classes at Christ Community Church. I love seeing what God is doing in so many marriages and families and hearing the many blessings God is pouring out.  I look forward to hear from you.

We hope you will join us for a wonderful adventure but most of all we hope you will join God on the adventure of marriage (or future marriage) HE desires. 

In Christ,

Tim & Crystal Breaux