Tag: Marriage
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3 Kinds of Marriages
An interesting article in The Atlantic by Richard Reeves of the Brookings Institute, How To Save Marriage in America. Of most interest, to me anyway, is this chart that they provide describing three kinds of marriages: Traditional Marriage Romantic Marriage HIP Marriage
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Healthy Couples Don’t…
An article by Ruthie Dean, appearing in Relevant Magazine, offers helpful marriage advice from the negative side – i.e. 8 Things Healthy Couple DON’T Do: Healthy Couples Don’t Post Negatively About Each Other on Social Media Healthy Couples Don’t Make Their Career a Priority Rather Than Their Relationship Healthy Couples Don’t Have All Their ‘Together-Time’…
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Marriage According to the Bible
by Ray Ortland Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. Genesis 2:24 It is not true that the Bible teaches multiple views of marriage, and therefore the Bible’s clarity is diminished on this question. The Bible does record, for example, that…
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What Did You Expect?
Here is a preview and overview of one of the best books on marriage I have read: What Did You Expect?. In this video, the author, Paul Tripp, introduces the root of almost any marriage conflict or emotional distancing: The heart. This is not a book I recommend for pre-marital counseling – not that…
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Prop 8, DOMA, and the Unchanging God
In light of the two U.S. Supreme Court decisions today, I was reminded of something my friend Mike Milton wrote that is pertinent to the issues related to these rulings. Here is what Mike wrote: When the rats begin to scramble on board the ship, it is a sure sign that the boat is sinking.…
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Cultural Argument Against Gay Marriage
by Randy Hicks Not many years ago it was unutterable, except perhaps as a schoolyard can-you-top-this, or as urban legend. Yet it is one of the most sensational issues of our time, and an almost-impossible topic to avoid. And, from what I’m hearing, it’s not always easy for people like you and me to articulate…
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Recommended Reading: Marriage
Here are a handful of recommended readings about Marriage: When Sinners Say I Do by Dave Harvey What Did You Expect? by Paul Tripp This Momentary Marriage by John Piper The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman The Meaning of Marriage by Tim & Kathy Keller
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Living By Vows
While going through pre-marital counseling during our engagement, one of the things our pastor, Dr. Donald Hoke (here & here), required Carolyn and me to read was a little booklet written by his dear friend, Robertson McQuilkin, Living By Vows. This short booklet chronicled a period in the life McQuilkin shared with his wife, Muriel…
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You Will Never Regret Loving This Much
Wedding season will be in full bloom within the next few weeks. But there is never a season when those already married or those contemplating marriage would not benefit from tending the soil of their souls by renewing their understanding of what marriage is and what marriage demands. As I say at the beginning of…
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Considerations for the Gay Marriage Discussion
While I suspect that the question of Gay Marriage is a settled issue for most of the readers of this blog, it seems anything but settled in our culture. We are inundated by the rhetoric of both activists and those who are merely sincere and sympathetic to the seeming inequalities. Christianity Today has published an informative article by…
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New Look @ Proverbs 31 Woman
What difference would it make if we recognize that Proverbs 31 was written for a young man, not a woman? Quite a bit actually. Honestly I had never thought about it until I saw a video of Rick White at Acts 29. While not an exhaustive study of the passage, Rick offers a legitimate perspective. …
