Truth & Circumstances

Episode Highlights Spiritual leadership requires me to know the destination to which I am leading, which is loving God (Deut 6:4-5; Matt 22:37). Spiritual leadership requires using God’s tools to get my family to the destination. Spiritual leadership requires using God’s power to get my family to the destination.

Episode Highlights: Understand and embrace the biblical connection between listening and wisdom. Understand the biblical juxtaposition of listening and speaking. Understand and embrace listening as a function of loving well.

Episode Highlights: A woman married to a man who is not obeying the Lord should focus on her own heart, understanding that there may be something the Lord wants to teach her. She should also focus on her God, understanding that her hope is in Him, not her husband. Husbands must recognize the great blessings […]

Episode Highlights: A major obstacle to sexual intimacy is the pervasive adoption of cultural ideas about sex. God’s design for sex is mutual serving in marriage, understanding the delightful responsibility to help one another with sexual temptation. A godly sexual relationship takes place in the context of vibrant conversational, spiritual, and emotional sharing.

Episode Highlights: Paul has in mind children still living in home. The grammar indicates that the qualification pertains to the submissive behavior–not the conversion–of the children. The parallel passage in 1 Tim 3:4-5 confirms that the concern is that a man manages his household well.

Episode Highlights: The Bible seems to expect that those who can have children will. Gen 1:28; Psa 127:3-5 Parents should prioritize their one-flesh relationship. Gen 2:24 Parents should pursue unity in parenting. Parents should honor one another, and thereby teach their children to honor parents. 1 Peter 3:7; Eph 5:33, 6:2 Parents should commit to […]

Episode Highlights: Have a straightforward conversation. Reach a diagnosis: is one or both spouses not pursuing the Lord? Recognize the dangers: what could happen if we do nothing? Make a plan: what do we need to do to remedy the situation?

episode highlights: any marriage should begin with shared biblical financial principles (Prov 6:6-11; 22:7; Matt 6:24-34; 2 Cor 9:6-8; 1 Tim 6:10; Jas 1:17) Each person should know their own financial tendencies and those of their spouse and seek to balance/help one another. Budgeting is a wise way to accommodate numerous biblical principles. The more […]

episode highlights: We should consider God’s design for sexual delight in marriage and how that informs the situation. We should be aware of the biblical responsibility to make ourselves available to meet the sexual needs of our spouses. We should pray that God would bring our hearts and desires in line with His Word.

Episode highlights: We should commit to timely reconciliation (Eph 4:26-27) We should commit to righteous motivations (Matt 22:36-39) We should commit to prayerful examination (Matt 7:3-5) We should commit to a godly approach (Jas 1:19-20) We should commit to full understanding (Prov 18:13, 17)