So the million dollar question is, what’s the big deal about marriage? Why not settle for sappy, syrupy emotion if in the end there is no marriage in heaven? What’s the big deal if marriages end because all marriages will end in heaven? Marriage is a big deal because marriage is a pointer to Christ […]
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Matthew 19-20 – Union with Christ (pt1 of 3)
Read Matthew 19:1-12. Happy belated Valentine’s Day! If you are married, I hope you had a chance to express your love to your spouse. And if you are single, I hope you were not too lonely thinking about your singlehood. God loves you. Whether married or single, we all come back to the same conclusion–God […]
Evangelist Billy Graham defends Chick-fil-A
As predicted by those in the Reformed circle, liberalism is a slippery slope. First, you remove inerrancy. Then, you stop speaking about gender differences. Now, the battle lines are being drawn around sexuality and what constitutes a “family.” By Richard Allen Greene, CNN (CNN)– Billy Graham, the dean of American evangelists, has once again broken […]
Marriage Sermon
Marriage is not like sod that you buy and roll out and you are good to go. Marriage is not like those fake flowers you buy from Ralph’s and put on your coffee table. Marriage takes a lot of work. Many wedding sermons that I have heard tend to be on the sappy, sentimental side […]
1 Cor 7: Singleness and Marriage (pt4 of 4)
Bad marriages often involve people who are wounded. And what you will notice about those who have been wounded by significant others is that they have been oppressed, they have been mistreated, injustice has been done to them. But you will notice something else. You will notice that they are also very self-absorbed. They can’t […]
1 Cor 7: Singleness and Marriage (pt3 of 4)
Now we are ready to delve deeper into the topic of marriage. Paul gives an interesting insight regarding marriage in v4. It’s an odd verse. 4 The wife’s body does not belong to her alone but also to her husband. In the same way, the husband’s body does not belong to him alone but also […]