Even if our marriages fail, we can still testify to the mercy and redemptive power of God, but how much stronger is our witness when we live out covenant faithfulness as a kind of living parable!

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Being respectful toward “undeserving” authorities is one of the greatest tests any of us may face.

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Husbands who act as servant leaders and provide proper headship for their wives and families help create a safe atmosphere of security, love, and peace in their families. This removes pressure from the wife that God never intended for her to carry. What a relief!

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Gender specific roles are similar to parts in a play. The better we play our assigned role, the more faithful we will reflect the author’s intent. The roles God has given us in life do not define us at a core level, but we must play the part God assigned us.

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However, if both partners are committed to serving the Lord, they have a basis for building a strong, lasting, and fulfilling marriage. The things that make a good disciple also make a good spouse.

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Understanding the importance of being faithful until death will help us to enter marriage with the proper sense of gravity and give us a reason to persevere when things get tough.

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Some have called marriage first and foremost a “covenant of companionship.”  The second paramount reason for a man and woman to be joined together in marriage, according to the Bible, is to fulfill God’s first commandment following creation to be fruitful and multiply. God created marriage therefore, to provide companionship and children. This is called the family, the basic unit of society, the most important social institution on the planet.

Everyone has to properly evaluate things every day. The key is to do it properly, in a way that is constructive, without condemning anyone, even though we may have to denounce their behavior.

Those who humbly and courageously pursue truth, no matter what, will indeed be set free, experience true joy, and know God and his mercy. They will see the God of all truth extend his merciful hand toward them with a smile of favor.

Because the local church is an assembly of people who choose to come under Christ’s authority and recognize his delegated authority in elders, unrepentant rebels have no place in a local church. Our inability to come under, in the right way, the authority of local church leaders, is proof that we have not yet properly surrendered to Christ.