Tag: Bible
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The Commitment of Christian Marriage
This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church. Did we miss this? I love a good mystery. Don’t you? Especially at the moment you finally get it – the moment you figure out where the story has been headed all along. Paul writes a letter to the church (at Ephesus).…
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but from the beginning it was not so
Matthew 19 English Standard Version (ESV) Teaching About Divorce 3 And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” 4 He answered,“Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his…
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The Wife of your Youth
I have some marital confessions to make. First: I Love Lissette Harned, my Blessing. Lissette is not the wife of my youth, but she is the wife of my vows and covenant and continued pouring out of love. Song of Solomon 4 English Standard Version (ESV) Solomon Admires His Bride’s Beauty Behold, you are beautiful, my…
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Deceived
L. It is her. I know it is her. She is to be God’s blessing to me. But what of this mystery (a sadder eyes)? How could it not be her; what can it mean? Psalm 116 10 I believed, even when I spoke: “I am greatly afflicted”; 11 I said in my alarm, “All mankind are liars.” 12 What…
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Two Sinful Souls = One Imperfect Marriage
Genesis 24:16 KJV And the damsel was very fair to look upon, a virgin, neither had any man known her: and she went down to the well, and filled her pitcher, and came up. Looking beyond the ‘ideal marriage,’ suppose at the time and place of your marriage it was said: I now pronounce you sinners, husband and wife.” Of course, that’s…
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In the beginning, Marriage
God’s true intention for marriage preceded original sin. Genesis 2:18 Then the Lord God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.” I must confirm from a terrible emptiness and great incompleteness: It is not good for a man to be alone… so alone without God’s help meet…
