Your marriage can grow in intimacy and trust, even as you deal with the everyday irritations and conflicts that all couples experience. Winston T. Smith helps couples see those disagreements as opportunities to face the underlying issues that destroy intimacy and to grow closer as they rely on God to sacrificially love each other. Marriage [...]
Marriage
Why Does Marriage Exist?
The ultimate thing we can say about marriage is that it exists for God’s glory. That is, it exists to display God. Now we see how: Marriage is patterned after Christ’s covenant relationship to His redeemed people, the church. And therefore, the highest meaning and the most ultimate purpose of marriage is to put the [...]
Adam, Husband, Father…Where are you?
When Adam and Eve sinned in the garden and God came to call them to account, it didn’t matter that Eve had sinned first. God said, “Adam, where are you?” (Gen. 3:9). That’s God’s word to the family today: Adam, husband, father, where are you? If something is not working right at [your home] and [...]
Sin Ruined the Beauty of Headship & Submission
Even in the days when people commonly stayed married “til death do us part,” there has never been a generation whose view of marriage was high enough, says Pastor John Piper. And today, when the doctrine of “headship” and “submission” are greatly misunderstood and maligned, Piper has some excellent thoughts for every Christian to consider: [...]
The Special Duties of Husbands to their Wives by Richard Baxter
He that will expect duty or comfort from his wife, must be faithful in doing the duty of a husband. The failing of yourselves in your own duty, may cause the failing of another to you, or at least in some other way as much afflict you, and will be bitterer to you in the [...]
Duties of Husband and Wife: Part I by John Dod and Robert Cleaver
Excerpted from John Dod and Robert Cleaver’s A Plaine and Familiar Exposition of the Ten Commandements, a standard English Puritan treatment of the ten commandments, first published in 1603 and not reprinted since 1635. So much for their duties that be further off from equality in the family, as parents and children, masters and servants. [...]
Duties of Husband and Wife: Part II by John Dod and Robert Cleaver
Now follow the special duties of an husband, for he hath not all these privileges for nothing, and those consist in two major points, in governing her wisely (by cohabitation and edification) and in performing all due benevolence. First, for cohabitation. The first duty of the husband is to dwell with his wife, that sith [...]
Duties of Husbands and Wives by Richard Steele
A Modern Abridgment and Paraphrase by D. Scott Meadows ‘Nevertheless let each one of you in particular so love his own wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.’ (Ephesians 5:33) Marriage is the foundation of all society, and so this topic is very important. Explaining marital duties to you [...]
Directives for Avoiding Dissension in the Home by Richard Baxter
It is a great duty of husbands and wives to live in quietness and peace, and avoid all occasions of wrath and discord. Because this is a duty of so great importance, I shall first open to you the great necessity of it, and then give you more particular directions to perform it. (1) Your [...]
Biblical Principles for Solving Problems in the Home by Brian Schwertley
We live in a time of great marital discord and family disintegration. At the beginning of the twentieth century the divorce rate in America was under ten percent. By 1983 the divorce rate was just under fifty percent (the divorce rate has stood near fifty percent ever since the early 1980s). One would expect that [...]
