Bride Wars is ‘base amusement’
January 16, 2009
Myths about infertility: ‘People say the dumbest things’
January 15, 2009
Congratulations to John and Noël Piper
December 22, 2008
… on their 40th wedding anniversary yesterday.
Why Isn’t LaShawn Barber married?
December 12, 2008
She explains here.
“… I’m certain — certain — my Father in Heaven ‘who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all’ will not withhold from me that which is good …”
Overheard at a coffeeshop: adultery
December 2, 2008
(Well, could be.) Justin Wise posts about an (apparently unmarried) couple he has seen chatting at Amici Espresso on more than one occasion–yes you two, we’re blogging about you!–and asks:
“Do you say something to people who are having an affair, even if you don’t know them personally?”
Christian Carnival #250
November 14, 2008
Find it here (make sure you ride the Tilt-a-Whirl while you’re there).
Post titles include
- “Theism Implies Open Theism”
- “A Million Good Things”
- “5 Bible verses about money every Christian should know”
- “Why Some Marriages survive and others perish.”
“A Free Guide to Marrying Well”
November 13, 2008
A digital booklet for men at Boundless: The Line, by Steve Watters:
“I have great respect for all the writers whose wisdom appears in this guide — Dr. Al Mohler, Josh Harris, Scott Croft, Michael Lawrence, Gary Thomas, Dr. Scott Stanley and more — and I wish this kind of resource had been available for someone to pass along to me back when I was stumbling along my path to marriage.”
Get it here.
Divorce and remarriage in Deuteronomy 24:1-4
November 8, 2008
The Hebrew behind the following passage is analyzed at Zondervan’s koinonia blog:
“If a man marries a woman who becomes displeasing to him because he finds something indecent about her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, and if after she leaves his house she becomes the wife of another man, and her second husband dislikes her and writes her a certificate of divorce, gives it to her and sends her from his house, or if he dies, then her first husband, who divorced her, is not allowed to marry her again after she has been defiled. That would be detestable in the eyes of the Lord. Do not bring sin upon the land the Lord your God is giving you as an inheritance.”
Ben Witherington on The Duchess
October 20, 2008
Read his review.
“The beauty of the scenery, the costumes, the houses and the rural settings in England, “that green and pleasant land” only punctuate the misery of the human beings who inhabit those clothes and settings, those lifestyles of the rich and lovelorn.”
Video: Andreas Köstenberger on marriage and parenting
October 20, 2008
12 teaching sessions are available for download from Richland Creek Community Church in Wake Forest, North Carolina. These are based on Köstenberger’s book, God, Marriage and Family: Rebuilding the Biblical Foundation (available from Monergism Books for $14.99).
Session titles:
- Introduction: The Current Cultural Crisis: Rebuilding the Foundation
- Leaving and Cleaving: The Creator’s Design for Marriage
- No Longer Two, But One: Building a Christian Marriage
- The Nature of Marriage: More than a Covenant
- The Ties that Bind: Family in God’s Plan
- The Christian Family: Who Is the Head of Your Household?
- To Have or Not to Have Children: Contraception, Adoption, and Other Issues
- Undivided Devotion to the Lord: God’s Gift of Singleness
- Abandoning Natural Relations: What the Bible Says about Homosexuality
- Separating What God Has Joined Together: Divorce & Remarriage
Questions to ask a potential spouse
October 16, 2008
Discussed at The Line by Suzanne Hadley:
“A Woman of Action”
October 15, 2008
More from girltalk on the Proverbs 31 woman:
“The Proverbs 31 woman is a woman of action. She isn’t simply a well-wisher of her husband’s happiness; she’s a doer of good to him. She brings him good, it says in the NIV. She delivers and supplies good to him. She does it.”
Also, the True Woman Manifesto, as outlined at the True Woman Conference 08, can be downloaded (pdf; HT: The Line). It includes the following:
“Men and women are both created in the image of God and are equal in value and dignity, but they have distinct roles and functions in the home and in the church.”
James White urges you
October 14, 2008
… to see Fireproof.
Other articles and reviews on the film:
Julie Bloom of the NY Times
[In spite of being an extremely snooty movie-goer/critic, even I liked it. - DS editor]
The ‘Protestant 5′ (it’s not a new family singing group)
October 9, 2008
Laika at Ales Rarus discusses how Catholics and Protestants differ on the issue of how long to wait before having children.
“The Ideal Woman” (update)
October 9, 2008
Nicole Whitacre discusses “the woman we love to hate: the Proverbs 31 woman” at girltalk.
(Update, 10/9): Another post at girltalk by Whitacre: “The Proverbs 31 Wife“.
