Everyone who gets married does so with a dream of married life—but that dream often ends in disappointment. What happens when our dreams don’t come true, and in the most intimate of human relationships we find ourselves hurt, lonely, or even fearful? Alice Mathews offers biblical insight from the lives of Abigail and Leah, two Old Testament women whose dreams of marital bliss turned into difficult marriages.
Society offers few answers to reverse the trends of marital unhappiness and divorce. We are in obvious need of divine instruction. This booklet looks at ten principles, or building blocks, from the Bible that will make a strong marriage. It also offers practical tips on how to put those principles to work.
One of the most painful of all life experiences is having to endure a failed marriage. And often added to the sorrow of that disappointment is the confusion that comes from the condemnation of the Christian community. Does the Bible teach that there are no legitimate grounds for divorce or remarriage? If the Bible allows for divorce in certain circumstances, does it allow for remarriage? The purpose of this helpful booklet is to look at what the Bible actually teaches about divorce and remarriage.
Marriage is meant to protect a lifetime of love. The permanence of a husband-wife relationship rests on a covenant of mutual commitment that is designed to survive normal and even serious marital conflict. Sometimes, however, verbal and physical abuse do to a marriage what murder or rape does to a life.
What then? What if efforts to save a marriage result in the compounded loss of peace and trust in the home? In this booklet, Herb Vander Lugt opens the Bible to show that Moses, Jesus, and Paul all recognized that some marital conditions are worse than divorce.
As parents, we sometimes find ourselves wondering about the future and wishing that God had assured us of more predictable results. It’s actually more loving, however, to parent our children without such a confidence. This booklet looks at the way our heavenly Father loves us, and shows that parenting is worth the effort—not because our children always make the right choices but because we have the opportunity, privilege, and peace of loving them the way God loves us.
Single adults are a rapidly growing segment of our society and of the Christian community. A single person’s life is filled with a unique set of pressures and challenges that are often unrecognized by the rest of the church. This study sets aside the myths of singleness and shows why married people need to develop a new attitude toward singles, and why singles need to see themselves through the eyes and wisdom of the One who made all of us for Himself.
Everyone who enters marriage does so with a set of expectations—and those expectations can be the source of disillusionment if our marriage doesn’t live up to them. One way to avoid that disillusionment is to make sure that our expectations match what marriage really promises. This study of what the Bible says about marriage helps us take a look at our expectations, our motives, and our faith in God Himself.