Last week we looked at a man’s primary responsibility in marriage – sacrificial love. The sacrificial love defines everything in the marriage. It defines responsibility, counters selfishness. We found instruction on the man’s role in marriage in Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. In that letter, Paul details the mechanical engineering of marriage. (Genesis gives us Read more about The Marriage Issue (Part 8): Submission[…]
Our modern rules of culture invariably intersect with the logic of the word of God. There’s always a raison d’être behind God’s injunctions. Everything is purposed, God is not random. And God deals in eternal principles. We deal in temporal realities. The things we ordinarily take for granted tend to have great significance and attract Read more about The Marriage Issue (Part 7): The Love of a Man[…]
The Book of Genesis provides us foundational studies on the institution of marriage. It is the conceptual framework of the most fundamental institution on earth today. Marriage is. However, the MECHANICS of the marital institution and its elucidation are found in the writings of Apostle Paul. Paul wrote so much about love and marriage. Read more about The Marriage Issue (Part 6): How Marriage Works[…]
Last week, we began to look at the subject of loneliness. In this message I’ll share general principles on dating and marriage – terms of engagement, if you will. But here’s an aside: As a general rule, don’t date someone you can’t marry. Apart from the possibility of an “accident,” which can get you stuck, Read more about The Marriage Issue (Part 5): Terms of Engagement[…]
We shall be talking about loneliness in this message, and I’m sure you know it is a very germane subject. It often gets lost in the cracks of the edifice of marriage discussion, but every single grapples with loneliness. Except of course those super singles. But you know those are not really Earthlings. They originally Read more about The Marriage Issue (Part 4): Loneliness[…]