Sunday Leftovers (8/19/07)

In the last few years, I have heard an increasing number of times, “I love _____, but I don’t like him/her…” Such a notion is a completely foreign concept in Scripture. To love someone is, by definition, to be both a friend and friendly to that person. No where should that be more evident than […]

The high cost of sexual sin

In preparation for Sunday’s sermon, I came across this statement by Derek Kidner about the Biblical reality of what sexual sin is. [All the references are from Proverbs.] …sexual sin is presented in the darkest colours. It is a squandering of powers that were designed for the founding of a true family that should be […]

Permanence and Marriage

For all that was said in three sermons on marriage from 1 Peter 3:1-7, little was said about a commitment to the permanence of marriage. These three statements are an encouragement and exhortation to keep on practicing godly disciplines within the context of marriage. We only regard those unions as real examples of love and […]

Sunday Leftovers (6/10/07)

Call this, “How to listen to a sermon about marriage (or any sermon).” There is a temptation when a pastor announces his sermon topic as being “the roles of husbands and wives in marriage,” for a husband or a wife to inwardly cheer, thinking, “Wonderful! I am so glad we came this morning for my […]

Sunday Leftovers (6/3/07)

A fundamental means of surviving — no, thriving — in marriage is by cultivating love in that marriage. Husbands are called to love their wives (Eph. 5:25-30). Wives are called to love their husbands (Titus 2:4). In the classic passage on love, all believers (including both husbands and wives) are called to a life of […]

Sunday Leftovers (5/27/07)

As is often the case, I didn’t finish my sermon on Sunday. Not only did I not complete the sermon, but I left unsaid a number of things along the way. Here are a few of them (saving still a few for this coming Sunday)… Peter’s words to wives and husbands in 1 Peter 3 […]

Sunday Leftovers (4/22/07)

On the priority of a personal walk with God — If you are unhappy and discontent or even angry with God, it is the fruit of a heart that has fed too lightly and too little at the table of God — you have learned to be happy with things that cannot satisfy. Modern Christians […]

Help for marriages

I regularly read books and magazines and journals and websites and have conversations with people that remind me that many marriages are in desperate need of God’s grace to intervene and save them from self-implosion. I also listen to several audio sermons each week to stimulate my own heart to joyful obedience to Christ. And […]

Sex and marriage

I have a book in my library that always makes a friend of mine laugh when he sees it on my shelf. The book is Lauren Winner’s recent release, Real Sex: the Naked Truth About Chastity. He laughs because the spine simply reads, “Real Sex Winner.” Yet (while I don’t agree with everything in the […]

A pmrovocative statement about arriage

Speaking of the difficulty the disciples had in hearing Jesus’ words concerning marriage in Matthew 19, John Piper said Sunday, “…how much more will the magnificence of marriage in the mind of God seem unintelligible in a world that we live in where the main idol is self, and its main doctrine is autonomy, and […]

More on marriage

Al Mohler offers more thoughts on the state of marriage in America.

Mohler on marriage

Al Mohler comments today on the NY Times story on the Census Bureau data about marriage in his blog, “Marriage Only for a Minority? Not Hardly.”

The married minority

Of the 111+ million households in America, less than 50% are now comprised of married couples (with or without children). So says new analysis done by the New York Times of data compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau. There are multiple reasons for this growing cultural transformation — young adults marrying at later and later […]