Make Sure You Enjoy the Lord
Make Sure You Enjoy the Lord
And all of that is very true, very imminent, very urgent, very real, but here is a side note, and that is make sure you enjoy the Lord.
Marriage Advice for Christians
Marriage Advice for Christians
What marriage advice can you give to those who are married? What are the strongest encouragements or strongest points of exhortation...
Marriage Advice: Keep Dating Your Wife
Marriage Advice: Keep Dating Your Wife
As a husband, you need to keep dating your wife; that is intentionally spending quality time together in order to maintain the freshness of the marriage.
Marriage, Family and Parenting
Marriage, Family and Parenting
What are some principles that can help with being a godly spouse and a godly parent? In this video, Paul Washer deals with multiple topics and in the second half answers questions from the audience.
Marriage, Work, and Public School
Marriage, Work, and Public School
Should a Christian man marry a woman who has different views on whether or not she should homeschool the children instead of pursuing a career?
Marriage: How NOT to Obey Ephesians 5 (Part 6)
Marriage: How NOT to Obey Ephesians 5 (Part 6)
Do not obey Ephesians 5 as though marriage is the source of ultimate satisfaction.
Married With a Lost Spouse: What to Do?
Married With a Lost Spouse: What to Do?
What should a newly saved Christian husband and father do who has a lost and contentious wife? Tim first considers how the believer must think correctly...
Men and Women: Who are We? (Part 1)
Men and Women: Who are We? (Part 1)
We live in a day when confusion is rampant--both within the church and without--on the issue of Biblical Manhood and Womanhood.
Men, Be a Gentle Leader
Men, Be a Gentle Leader
Silence, anger, and harshness are among three things that men can be prone to fail in when leading in the family and in the church.
Men: Do You Get Angry at Your Wives?
Men: Do You Get Angry at Your Wives?
Married men: don't pretend to have a glowing testimony in the church when you have wicked outbursts of anger against your wife. Don't try to hide it or justify it, but rather confess it and put it to death.
My Wife is Giving Money to People Who Ask
My Wife is Giving Money to People Who Ask
Give to everyone who begs from you, and from one who takes away your goods do not demand them back.
My Wife the Mulberry Tree, Saved After Praying for 19 Years
My Wife the Mulberry Tree, Saved After Praying for 19 Years
Craig preaches on Luke 17:5-6 and how it relates to finally seeing his wife saved after 19 years of praying.
Obeying God by Disobeying My Husband?
Obeying God by Disobeying My Husband?
The Bible clearly commands wives to submit to their husbands. But is there a time when wives should disobey? Is it possible to disobey their husbands graciously and respectfully?
Options for Finding a Spouse
Options for Finding a Spouse
What options for finding a spouse should a single person consider? More so than considering the options, what type of heart attitude...
Our Marriage to Christ is Most Important
Our Marriage to Christ is Most Important
Marriage is indeed important and defining in the believer's life, but it is not the most important thing to be said of the Christian's life.
Parenting (Part 8)
Parenting (Part 8)
a. Fathers must not exasperate by being harsh. b. Fathers must not exasperate by being unreasonable. c. Fathers must not exasperate by fault-finding. d. Fathers must not exasperate through inconsistency. e. Fathers must not exasperate through neglect. f. Fathers must instruct their children about the Lord. g. Fathers must discipline their children.
Parenting to Please God
Parenting to Please God
Ephesians 6:1 - Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Parents, Discipline Your Children
Parents, Discipline Your Children
Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him. - Proverbs 13:24
Parents: Train Your Children at Home
Parents: Train Your Children at Home
Parents must consistently train their children at home in order for them to behave properly during a church service. Having family devotionals is an excellent time for that training to take place...
Patriarchy vs. Single Women in the Bible
Patriarchy vs. Single Women in the Bible
Take note of these examples of single women who were on their own, working outside of the home, and supporting themselves and others.
Points on Parenting
Points on Parenting
Parents can give away their authority. Never say no if you don’t mean it. Don’t give a command, even a little one, if you are not willing to back it up. And parents can give a command in such a tone that the child senses there are options.
Protecting or Overprotecting Our Children?
Protecting or Overprotecting Our Children?
What should Christian parents do when their children could possibly be put in situations that expose them to sin? How should parents protect them from that...
Proverbs: The Excellent Wife
Proverbs: The Excellent Wife
The book of Proverbs provides us invaluable wisdom on godly qualities that a man should be looking for in a prospective wife, as well as qualities that every...
Question & Answers on Singleness (Part 5)
Question & Answers on Singleness (Part 5)
How do the principles of Biblical Womanhood apply to single women?
Recovering Biblical Womanhood
Recovering Biblical Womanhood
Young women are to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled. - Titus 2:4-5
Remarrying Someone You Had Previously Married?
Remarrying Someone You Had Previously Married?
If a man and woman get divorced, the woman gets saved, and neither of them has remarried, would it be ok if they got married again?
Should I Divorce My Husband For Adultery?
Should I Divorce My Husband For Adultery?
What should a woman do who is inwardly torn apart from her husband having lived in adultery with another woman? Can she biblically divorce him?
Should I Marry Someone Because of Outward Beauty?
Should I Marry Someone Because of Outward Beauty?
Young men, we live in a world that tells you to chase a woman because of outward beauty.
Should I Only Marry a Virgin?
Should I Only Marry a Virgin?
Is it an unreasonable standard to want to marry someone only if they are a virgin? Should their immoral past be more important than their present godliness?
Singleness (Part 4)
Singleness (Part 4)
Before you are concerned about who you should marry, you should be concerned about who you are.
Some Plain Words on Marriage, Sex & Judgment
Some Plain Words on Marriage, Sex & Judgment
Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Strong Families Function in a Local Church
Strong Families Function in a Local Church
Strong families are those that are functioning in the local church...
Teaching Your Children to Be Considerate
Teaching Your Children to Be Considerate
Walking in, and teaching our children, to be considerate of others. Philippians 2:3-5
The Family According to Jesus
The Family According to Jesus
Who are your brothers and sisters? Jesus said they are those who do the will of my father in heaven. Brethren the reality is the people we are most close to are those who are most close to the Lord. Who love to talk of Christ and love Christ... oh how we need more of Christ!
The Godly Woman (Part 3)
The Godly Woman (Part 3)
1. She is the helper to him as a companion and intimate friend. 2. She is the helper to him as the queen of the domestic domain. 3. She is the lover who shares with him in passion and pleasure. 4. She is the mother and nurturer who helps him in procreation.
The Love of Christ in Every Marriage
The Love of Christ in Every Marriage
Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.
Thoughts on Marriage for Newlyweds
Thoughts on Marriage for Newlyweds
The secret of a lasting marriage and a happy marriage is in perpetually, continually, habitually giving God the number one position, purpose and passion in your lives and marriage.
Three Exhortations to the Newly Married
Three Exhortations to the Newly Married
Appreciate Your Spouse: You Got the Better End of the Deal | Necessity of Communication in Marriage | As for God His Way is Perfect
Time is Short. Don’t Set Your Hopes on Marriage
Time is Short. Don’t Set Your Hopes on Marriage
Don't set your hopes on marriage, but on knowing Christ and living for Him. What does, "let those who have wives live as though they had none" mean?
Using Time for Eternal Things (in the Context of Marriage)
Using Time for Eternal Things (in the Context of Marriage)
A sermon on viewing marriage in light of eternity. 29 This is what I mean, brothers: the appointed time has grown very short. From now on, let those who have wives live as though they had none, 30 and those who mourn as though they were not mourning, and those who rejoice as though they were not rejoicing, and those who buy as though they had no goods, 31 and those who deal with the world as though they had no dealings with it. For the present form of this world is passing away. 1 Corinthians 7:29-31
- Colossians 3:21 Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.
- Proverbs 13:24 Whoever spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
- Proverbs 22:15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
- Proverbs 23:13-14 Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die. If you strike him with the rod, you will save his soul from Sheol.
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