The Forgiving Husband

Mars Hill PDXIt is quite evident that your relationship with God is like the relationship between a married couple – for your Maker is your husband, the LORD of hosts is His name (Isa. 54:5) and husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. Eph 5:25

Just as God has said, “You must not have any other god but me” (Ex 20:3) then you Continue reading

Forsake everything.

forsaking everythingWhat is the man’s role as a husband? Today’s young men will probably not know what the Bible says… what God says on the subject.
I know I didn’t. All I knew was to love Linda. While that is good, is it enough? Continue reading

The Wife’s Role in the Marriage (and the husband has one too)

naggingI remember several years ago there was a man named Danny that came to church. Danny was from Czechoslovakia and spoke with quite a thick accent. It was absolutely lovely.
One Wednesday night, in his thick accent he said, “De Bi-ble says dat… Continue reading

The Helper

wife roleThere was a time I worked for the telephone company and part of my job included going from house to house in a community and obtaining verbal permission for plowing an underground telephone cable to the house so the aerial could be removed. Continue reading

Biblical view of Marriage

I saw a video in which someone made a sarcastic remark about the Biblical view of marriage.
What they said was, “Which view?”
Is it the one where you can marry many wives and have concubines, like Jacob, King David, or King Solomon? Continue reading

Intimacy – Part 1

Someone posted a verse of scripture on Facebook the other evening and as I read it I had a new thought about it.
The verse posted was Gen 2:24 – Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and they shall become one flesh. Continue reading

Praying Men – Modest Women

Dressing appropriately is an important part of Christian growth.
What one wears can determine how one is treated or thought of.
In addressing the church, the Apostle said that the women adorn themselves in modest apparel. 1 Tim 2:9 Continue reading