Marriage

February 21, 2020

How Important are Role Responsibilities in Marriage? Or, What Happens When Marital Roles are Reversed?

Genesis 2-3 presents a clear picture of divine role-identity, and what happens when it is reversed. So, what came first: “the chicken” (Adam’s silence) or “the egg” (Eve’s pro-activity)? In Greek thought (Aristotle), the “chicken” was always first. In Genesis 3, it is no different.
February 13, 2020

How Important are Role Responsibilities in Marriage? Or, What Happens When the Husband Doesn’t Do What He’s Called to Do?

The role-responsibilities dynamic means seeing and pursuing the creation design that God established for relationships.
February 6, 2020

Three Biblical Reasons Why a Husband Must Honor His Wife

When there is proactive love, respect and value given to each spouse by the other, God is honored, the Lord’s mission becomes fruitful and the world takes notice of the divine blessing that rests upon their home.
January 23, 2020

Four Ways Wives Can “Win Over” Their Unbelieving Husbands in God’s Mission

A wife can find comforting assurance in knowing that her unbelieving husband often watches her life and behavior closely.
January 10, 2020

Four Ways Authentic Submission Empowers Biblical Submission in Marriage

Too often, we put the cart before the horse. General submission leads, even empowers, marital submission.
December 5, 2019

What It Means for a Wife to “Come Under” God’s Mission in Her Marriage (3 Things)

When submission is first seen from the husband’s following Christ’s submissive-sacrificial example to accomplish God’s mission, then three practical, biblical directives help wives understand their role in the process
November 22, 2019

Biblical Submission in Marriage: Practically Speaking, Three Things It Means for Husbands

Wives, biblical love from submission is possible when your husbands realize that they are the freest when they follow Christ and when they see that God has a mission for them that centers around YOU.
November 13, 2019

Biblical Submission in Marriage: What It IS and What It is NOT

“What is God’s Mission for Your Life and Marriage?” represents one of the most important questions a husband and his wife can answer today.
October 31, 2019

Why the Husband Must FIRST See Christ’s Submission in Order to Make His Marriage Meaningful

If the husband will first see Christ’s submission to God the Father, and then pattern his submission to Christ, his marriage would almost overnight be changed.
October 23, 2019

In Post-Christian Times, Who Initiates and Energizes Whom in the Marriage Relationship?

The biblical portrait of marriage presents the initiative squarely on the shoulders of the husband