Covenant Podcast

Sex is a part of God’s plan for the covenant of marriage between a man and a woman. Sex unites two people, both body and soul, and so we must be careful to keep it within the bounds of marriage. In marriage sex should be frequent, patient, and giving.

Problems exist within any marriage. At the heart of a great number of marriage problems are an unwillingness to prioritize your spouse, commit to loving them as they change throughout life, and trusting God’s good plan in submission and servant leadership.

Because Christ is ultimate, singleness is not a problem to fix, a season to waste, or a sign that someone is incomplete. Whether singleness lasts a season or a lifetime, our identity, fulfillment, intimacy, purpose, and hope are ultimately found in Jesus, not in a relationship status.

Marriage is meant to be sanctifying. As two people come together in honest and loyal friendship and commitment, they help one another toward the common goal of the upward call of sanctification.

A marriage commitment is based on a Biblical understanding of love. Love is not a feeling, but an action. Marriage is a lifelong commitment to act in a loving way toward another person.

When we have the Holy Spirit, we are enabled to submit to one another in marriage and eschew self-centeredness as the cancer to healthy marriage that it is.

There are good reasons for getting married, but one core reason that is often overlooked in today’s society is companionship. We are meant to marry our best friend. 

Marriage is not well understood in our culture or in our churches today. God has a design and a desire for marriage, it is something the God has created and it is something that God defines. If we don’t understand the design, or don’t recognize that God created and regulates marriage, we will end up struggling in our marriages or missing out completely. 

When a nation or a people forsake the Lord, collapse is inevitable. We are in need of a King whose reign will never fail: we have one, His name is Jesus. 

Judges 17–18 shows how sincere worship can still be false when it’s shaped by our preferences instead of God’s truth. Micah creates a version of worship that looks spiritual but is ultimately self-made, turning his relationship with God into something transactional and controllable. In the end, what he built fails him, revealing that anything we elevate above God will eventually collapse and leave us empty