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Marriage and Leadership

“For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the Church.” (Eph 5:22) Thank you Father, that you have created in husbands and wives a beautiful picture of Christ and His Bride.  May you grant a renewal of what you made marriage to be, that the world may see in its midst the glory of Christ. Let’s talk leadership today, and let’s begin by talking generically.  Suppose the CEO of a company steps down.  Who leads next?  Generally, the company has some protocol in place for who that would be.  But what if there…

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Principles for a Strong Marriage II

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,…

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Principles for a Strong Marriage

“Teacher which is the great commandment in the Law?” And he said to him, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  This is the great and first commandment.”  Matthew 22:36-8 Lord, by your grace I ask you to build my marriage on Christ.  I ask you to increase my love for you because it is right, but I ask for my marriage that my love for you will in turn spill over into my love for Leanne and increase it as your love abounds in my…

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Marriage Is . . .

This blog simply continues the previous one; therefore, it will be helpful to read the previous blog before reading this one. In this blog I shall define and discuss what marriage is. The definition will come straight from Scripture. Keep in mind that this blog is neither an apologetic nor pastoral advice. I hope that I say nothing new. If you read this and think, “How plain?” that’s probably a good sign. If you read this and are upset because I don’t quite fit contemporary culture, that, too, is a sign that I am on the right track. So without…

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Marriage Is Not . . .

The man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”  Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.  And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed.  (Gen 2:23-4) Marriage is a universal idea.  It is Chinese, Korean, Nigerian, Mexican, European, Jewish, Muslim, Christian and secular all at once.  It is as current as this minute and as ancient as Adam.  It has existed in…

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