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Singleness – Matthew 19:10-12
“John Robert Walmsley Stott CBE (27 April 1921 – 27 July 2011) was an English Anglican priest and theologian who was noted as a leader of the worldwide evangelical movement. He was one of the principal
Continue reading...Divorce – Matthew 19:1-9
Pastors have had many couples come to them with sad stories about their marriages and often with one partner saying they want out. There is nothing that causes more a feeling of helplessness than trying
Continue reading...What Is Love? – Matthew 5:31,32
Cindy Wright and her husband Steve have a marriage ministry, but she confesses that it has taken her a long time to realize what it takes to honor her marriage: “Love isn’t something that’s
Continue reading...What Is Marital Love – Matthew 5:31,32
Cindy Wright and her husband Steve have a marriage ministry, but she confesses that it has taken her a long time to realize what it takes to honor her marriage: “Love isn’t something that’s
Continue reading...Where Holiness Matters Most – Colossians 3:18-4:1
Mark Holmen of Focus on the Family writes about an experience he had co-teaching a seminar for parents called “Nurturing Faith of Teenagers” with Dr. David Anderson. Anderson asked the parents
Continue reading...Can I Get a Divorce?: Daily Thoughts from Mark (Mark 10:1-12)
What is the message of the kingdom concerning marriage and divorce? This is one of the issues we are most concerned about because the covenant to love one another in marriage has proven so hard for us
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Protecting Women and Sex (22:16-17)
The man or woman who cannot discipline his or her sexual desires and is ready to inflict damage all for the satisfaction of a few moments is a foolishness beyond words.
Continue reading...Daily Thoughts from Exodus: Seventh Command (20:14)
Our culture is looking for ways to represent adultery as an acceptable alternative to a dead-end marriage or even a healthy thing for a so-so marriage. But God, in his wisdom and concern for the welfare
Continue reading...Ephesians 5:31-33 — Conversations with God
“Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.” This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
Continue reading...Ephesians 5:25-30 — Conversations with God
Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant
Continue reading...Ephesians 5:22-24 — Conversations with God
Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church
Continue reading...Lessons From the Old Testament: God and Terrible Marriages
Yahweh has had one of the worst marriages possible! Jeremiah 3 chronicles some of it: “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him and marries another man, should he return to her again? Would
Continue reading...Lessons From the Old Testament: Passionate Marriages
What is God’s standard for marriage? What is it He desires to see as a reflection of His relationship to His people in the lives of married couples? Surely He requires us to keep our vow of lifelong
Continue reading...Lessons From the Old Testament: What is the purpose of the Law?
Then Moses went up to God, and the LORD called to him from the mountain and said, “This is what you are to say to the house of Jacob and what you are to tell the people of Israel: ‘You yourselves
Continue reading...Lessons From the Old Testament: The Case for Monogamy
Lamech married two women, one named Adah and the other Zillah. Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, listen to me; wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, a young
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