Marriage

Praying for Families and Fellowship

21 Days of Prayer
Day 10: Our Families and Our Fellowship

Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace…

What’s the Big Deal about Divorce?

Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife? (Mark 10:2b)

The question was carefully phrased, as it was given to Jesus to answer. It does not ask what is the benefit of divorce to society or to the children or even to the parents. It does not…

What Is Wrong with Homosexual Marriage?

Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is an abomination.

Leviticus 18:22 KJV

Do not lie with a man as one lies with a women; that is detestable.

Jacob’s Love

So Jacob served seven years to get Rachel, but they seemed like only a few days to him because of his love for her.

Genesis 29:20

There is in these few words a picture of genuine love of a man for a woman. This is wholesome love, not unholy lust that…

Children and Parents

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right…Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

Ephesians 6:1,4

Faith in the Home

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

Ephesians 5:33

One of my earliest and most painful lessons in church life that I learned was how easy it is to neglect your spouse and…

God’s Best

The man said, “This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh…”

Genesis 2:23

The man awoke with the creative act of God before him. Eve was immeasurably better than anything that Adam could have imagined. To come to this realization and to this…

Sleeping to Success

But for Adam no suitable helper was found. So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep, and while he was sleeping…

Gen 2:20b-21a

Adam had done all that he could think to do to find a mate and still had been unsuccessful. He had…

The Good Gifts of God

The Lord God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”

Genesis 2:18

The story of Adam and Eve is not merely given for us to learn the act of creation of the human race by God, but also so that…