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“Husbands, love your wives . . . (Eph 5:25) “Wives, submit to your husbands . . . (Eph 5:23) Father, let me lead Leanne in love, as Christ would lead His church. I need you for this. One of the biggest problems people have with the Biblical description of marital leadership is that they never consider what Scripture says about that leadership.  They have in mind their own notions of leadership, often from seeing sinful, abusive leaders, and they replace Biblical leadership with their own notions and then proceed to smack down Biblical leadership.  When they do their smack down,…

Lord, as you have committed yourself to your church, and as your church has committed herself to You, may I, in turn, be completely committed to my bride and she to me.  “Happy families are all alike.  Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”  (Tolstoy) Thus is the opening line of Anna Karenina.  Tolstoy then goes on to elucidate some unhappy families.  Concerning happy families, Tolstoy is largely correct.  Concerning unhappy families, he is correct mainly on the externals.  Happy families and unhappy families all experience a million different types of struggles, but the happy families endure them,…