To be human is to struggle with unhealthy patterns of relating. The Bible calls it "sin." Those of us who are married know how frequently our selfishness gets in the way of spiritual, emotional, and relational health. Here are a few ways to continue the journey towards a healthy marriage. None of us ever completely … Continue reading Ways to Cultivate a Healthy Marriage
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Sex Life
Here are some mp3s and seminar notes of talks given to our church community back in 2014 during our Christian Life Conference. If you listen to one, I would strongly encourage you to listen to the last one - Sandy Willson speaking on "Homosexuality and the Christian." The others are helpful as well depending on … Continue reading Sex Life
Cultivating a Healthy Marriage: Clothed with Love
“And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony” (Colossians 3:14). Love is that piece of clothing in your spiritual wardrobe that will hold your entire marriage relationship together. It serves sort of like a safety belt for your marriage and also every other relationship. God's Design for Passages Like … Continue reading Cultivating a Healthy Marriage: Clothed with Love
Cultivating a Healthy Marriage – Clothed with Humility
During your early years of marriage, you will discover that developing a good marriage is a lot like cultivating a garden (recall Tim Keller’s talk on “Cultivating a Healthy Marriage"). A garden takes a lot of work and it costs more than you figured, it is messier than you anticipated, and it requires greater determination … Continue reading Cultivating a Healthy Marriage – Clothed with Humility
Wise Words on Loving the Right Woman Well
Desire after forbidden enjoyments naturally springs from dissatisfaction with the blessings in possession. Where contentment is not found at home — drinking out of our own cistern — it will be sought for, however vainly, abroad. Marital love is chief among the earthly goods in mercy granted by God to his fallen and rebellious creatures. … Continue reading Wise Words on Loving the Right Woman Well
What Marriage Is
Marriage is not a federation of two sovereign states. It is a union – domestic, social, spiritual, physical. It is a fusion of two hearts – the union of two lives – The coming together of two tributaries, which, after being joined in marriage, will flow in the same channel, in the same direction… carrying … Continue reading What Marriage Is
Pray to Love Your Wife Well or Else
you will give yourself to suicidal pleasures that will destroy your life and unravel your family... Hear these challenging words of an old Puritan preacher by the name of Thomas Watson who explains the significance of Proverbs 5:15-21: "It is not having a wife, but loving a wife, that makes a man live chastely. He … Continue reading Pray to Love Your Wife Well or Else
Jim Elliot – God Made Woman for Man
In an interesting passage in The Journals of Jim Elliot [446-447], amidst his account of missionary activity, gospel witness, some new converts, and his burgeoning romance with Elizabeth, we find this: "June 13: I am clean mad for a woman this afternoon. At times this sheer physical need is the strongest argument for marriage that … Continue reading Jim Elliot – God Made Woman for Man
Life-Giving Implications of the Seventh Commandment
Friends, have you been intimate or have you allowed your mind to indulge in desires of intimacy with anyone to whom you are not married? If so, you are sinning against the Lord. The best course of action is to repent and forsake your sin (Proverbs 28:13). Seek out a confidant/counselor who will tell you … Continue reading Life-Giving Implications of the Seventh Commandment
How Do You Develop a Spiritual Friendship in Marriage?
Click here for a link to a PDF file entitled "Developing Spiritual Friendship in Marriage
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