After the wedding…I’m thankful

“…in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” (1 Thess. 5:18; NASB) As believers, we know that we are to give thanks always — in all circumstances, at all times, for all people. There are sometimes when that is easier than at other times. The past few weeks has […]

Grab bag

Some helpful articles from around the Internet. This week’s articles focus mainly on the topics of technology and counseling: Timothy Raymond has a list of “20 Things Pastors Hear in Counseling.” How many of these are you equipped to help people address biblically? John Piper reminds us why the Psalms are so significant in counseling […]

From father to son on a wedding day

From a pious aged father to his son a minister newly married* Dear Pair, whom God hath now of two made One Suffer a Father’s exhortation. In the first Place see that with joynt indeavour – You set yourselves to serve the Lord together, You are yoakt to work but for work Wages write, His […]

25 years ago today

Twenty-five years ago today, we said, “I do.” Twenty-five years ago, we were “just married.” Today we are “living happily every after.” That doesn’t means there have been no bumps along the way. There have been. We have had conflict — and experienced the joy of reconciliation through repentance, confession, and forgiveness. We have had […]

Reflections on “the wedding”

I did not get up earlier than usual on Friday morning to watch the Royal Wedding. I had a full schedule for the day and wanted to prepare myself for it with a full night of sleep. And further, I was uninterested in the whole hoopla in general (though certain female teen-aged members of my […]

The Most Royal Wedding of All

A prayer from Scotty Smith — Dear heavenly Father, on a day on which many in our world set clocks and arranged schedules to view a wedding of total strangers—a wedding to which we were not invited, how can we not think about and long for our coming wedding day to Jesus? Like John, when […]

After the wedding

Having conducted a wedding this afternoon, I’m still thinking about some of the things I wanted to communicate about God and marriage to the couple and to those in attendance. Taking my thoughts primarily from Ephesians 5, I addressed the couple (particularly the husband) and exhorted them to follow the example of Christ in His […]