1 Corinthians 7:17-24 Last Lord’s Day evening we read some verses from later in this same chapter 7 of 1 Corinthians, verses in which Paul seems to say that, all things considered, the single life is the life to be preferred for Christians, not requiring them to divide their interests between the Lord and a […]
Two more sermons will conclude our series of evening sermons on the Bible’s doctrine and ethics of marriage, tonight’s and next Lord’s Day evening’s sermon on singleness. I’m sure that I could have covered more subjects than I have, but one must make an end somewhere and I think I have treated the Bible’s primary […]
We are these Lord’s Day evenings considering the Bible’s ethics of marriage having spent some weeks first on the Bible’s theology of marriage. We always have both in the Bible: the indicative and the imperative; what is and what this means for our conduct. How ought men and women to live together as husband and […]
Genesis 2:23-24 It has been some time since our last sermon in this series on marriage, so let me remind you where we were when the series was interrupted. Having considered the Bible’s theology of marriage, we are now considering its ethics of marriage, how husbands and wives are to live and relate to one […]
Genesis 2:23-24 To refresh our memories after being away from our subject for two weeks, we took seven Lord’s Day evenings to consider the Bible’s theology of marriage; to answer the question: what is marriage? More recently we have begun to consider the Bible’s ethics of marriage; what it teaches about the responsibilities of husbands […]
Genesis 3:1-19 We have discussed at length the Bible’s theology of marriage and began, Last Lord’s Day evening, to consider its ethics of marriage. How are husbands and wives to live in the married state? We began with Ephesians 5 and Paul’s famous assertion of a distinction between husbands and wives and talked about how […]
Ephesians 5:22-33 Our text this evening is Paul to the Ephesians 5:22-33. I realize that this text is beset with all manner of interesting detail that is worthy of comment, but I am going to simply read it through as I want this evening to deal not with the specifics of Paul’s argument but with […]
We have been dealing these past Lord’s Day evenings with the Bible’s theology of marriage, or the Bible’s definition of marriage. We have found in the Word of God that marriage is an institution of human life, established at the creation, by which the human race is organized in families; that marriage is a relationship […]
So far we have developed the Bible’s theology of marriage this way: 1) Marriage is a creation ordinance, God’s way of organizing human life in families; 2) Marriage is a relationship of love; more than simply functional it is to be deeply satisfying and full of personal pleasure; 3) Marriage is a covenant, a sworn […]
It will be some moments before we get there but you can turn to the Song of Songs for this evening’s consideration of the Word of God. We have been dealing first with the theology of marriage. We have not yet considered the ethics of marriage: how we are to live and love in marriage. […]
We have so far argued from Genesis 1 and 2 that marriage is a 1) creation ordinance (that is, a divine provision for the life of mankind, a divinely ordered structure for human life); 2) a relationship of love (that is, not simply functional, but moral in its nature and to be delightful in its […]
Genesis 2:24 In our series so far we have considered, primarily from the account of the institution of marriage in Genesis 2, marriage as a creation ordinance, that is as a divinely ordered structure for human life, fundamental because it creates a family, and marriage as an affair of love. As we read in Psalm […]
When we knew that this evening’s service was to be a Memorial Service for Rosemary Fiedler, I thought at first that I would preach a sermon apropos a Christian’s death. But, then, it occurred to me that no subject would serve as well to remember Rosemary as a sermon on marriage and, in particular, marriage […]
I taught a Sunday School class on marriage years ago, but have never preached a series on the subject and it seemed to me high time that I did so. We live in a culture that is in open rebellion against not only the biblical definition of marriage but against marriage as it has been […]
Review
The establishment of marriage and the creation of man and
woman for marriage.
Celebratory Speech as the primary means of the practice of
married love.
The Headship of the man in marriage and the submission of
wives…
Review
The establishment of marriage and the creation of man and woman for marriage.
Celebratory Speech as the primary means of the practice of married love.
The Headship of the man in marriage and the submission of wi…
Review
The establishment of marriage and the creation of man and
woman for marriage.
Celebratory Speech as the primary means of the practice of
married love.
The Headship of the man in marriage and the submission of
wives…
Review
The establishment of marriage and the creation of man and
woman for marriage.
Celebratory Speech as the primary means of the practice of
married love.
The Headship of the man in marriage and the submission of
wives…
Review
The establishment of marriage and the creation of man and
woman for marriage.
Celebratory Speech as the primary means of the practice of
married love.
The Headship of the man in marriage and the submission of
wives…
Review
The establishment of marriage and the creation of man
and woman for marriage.
Celebratory Speech as the primary means of the
practice of married love.
The Headship of the man in marriage and the
submission of…
Review
The establishment of marriage and the creation of man and woman for marriage.
Celebratory Speech as the primary means of the practice of married love.
The Headship of the man in marriage and the submission of wi…
Review
In Gen. 2 we have considered the establishment of marriage
and its fundamental character, as well as the creation of man
and woman to complement one another in marriage. Last week we
considered the practice of married love as first and…
Review
The establishment of marriage and, before that, the
creation of man and woman for marriage take up the second
half of Genesis 2. The order of creation will be in this as
in many ways the basis for the order of law. God’s
laws of marri…
I’ve entitled the course “The Doctrine and Practice of Marriage” because the Bible speaks about marriage, as about most things, both in the indicative and the imperative and relates the one to the other. How one conducts himself or herself in a marri…