Paul came to Corinth as we read in Acts 18; he had arrived in another significant city in what is now Greece. And like most cities in this region during this era it was ruled by pagan attitudes about life and love. Acts 18 describes the apostle’s arrival in this...
“Wives be subject to your own husbands …” This instruction begins the third chapter of 1 Peter. Reading this sentence in our modern culture may strike some as a commandment condoning male hierarchy as a sort of setting for the family table of organization. Interpretations of Scriptures can be twisted...
We, the Body of Christ, are the Lord's Bride-in-waiting; what are to be thinking, doing, as we wait for our Day? How do we best prepare for our Wedding with the King of kings? We increasingly become occupied with HIM, with His thoughts toward us, with what He's like, with...
It is no coincidence that Jesus’s first miracle was performed at a Galilean (Cana) wedding. The wedding was the most important event taking place in the Galilean villages of Jesus’s day since it was to be celebrated by all. The entire church age as defined by the new covenant established...
A mother had some words for her son. This son just happened to be a king. Lemuel, King of Massa, he is called in the Proverbs 31:1. The words from his mother meant so much to him that he put them down for others to read. That a woman might...
Imagine this: a family wedding feast happens and it finishes with you being made the surprise bride. We read of just such a story in Genesis 29. Big sister Leah watched and toasted and enjoyed the celebration that was supposed to mark the giving of her younger sister, Rachel, as...
She is. I am. We are. Us, but also not us. We, but also I and she. We are one, as God made us to be. Still, there is her and there is me. Lose yourself in each other. Sounds like a sound premise, does it not? It’s a recipe,...
The first recorded miracle of Jesus happened at a wedding, in Cana near Nazareth, where Christ grew up. Just as the reception reached full swing, the wine ran out, as we read in John 2. Mary turned to her Son for help: “They have no wine,” she said. It was...
“Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge” (Hebrews 13:4 New American Standard Version) These instructions come to us in the book of Hebrews. There are two points being made here. Marriage should be held in...
we can now see that many Christian marriages suffer because when a couple overlooks or is ignorant of the ontological aspect of marriage, they are left only with the psychological or physical aspects that are not spiritual. In other words, they bypass the spiritual and live in the lower realms...
