Marriage and Family

This morning I will preach my father-in-law’s funeral. For 32 years of our marriage, I dreaded this terrible task because he was not a believer. He wanted no part of Christ or his gospel. We prayed for him, witnessed to him, sent others to talk to him, and five years ago even took him to…

If marriage is a picture of Christ and his love for his church, then much more is at stake than my happiness.

If we want our family ministries to be effective, we need to involve parents.

In a recent “Ask Pastor John” podcast, Tony Reinke asked John Piper, “What steals your joy?”

At best, television dads are nominal or figurehead leaders of the home, but at worst, they are relegated to the intellectual level of the family pet.

We tend to hold very strong views about parental discipline, and those views are often rooted in our experience.

Our society is confused about gender and sexuality because it has forgotten what it means to be created in the image of God as male and female.

Though some maintained the importance of marriage, others taught the need to abstain from sex in order to pursue more spiritual or philosophical endeavors.

One of the most important gifts of the Reformation to the various traditions that stem from that era was the concept of Christian marriage as a vocation and the fact that there is no intrinsic value in a celibate life (2)

Three texts in the Christian Scriptures are particularly significant for the topic of raising and rearing children: Deuteronomy 6:4-9, Proverbs, and Ephesians 6:1-4.

Heath Lambert provides a thorough review of Mark Driscoll’s recent book, Real Marriage: The Truth about Sex, Friendship, and Life Together.