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What Jesus' Radical Marriage Teaching Reveals About the Church


The Story of Scripture: Jesus and Marriage || David Platt - YouTube

In a culture of self-expression and self-gratification, Scripture's teaching about marriage and divorce can sound strange.

Are Non-Christian Marriages Valid in God's Eyes?

God made marriage to picture the relationship of Christ and his church. Does it follow that a marriage between an unbelieving man and woman ...

Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church - The Holy See

In this perspective, the Church is “inspired by no earthly ambition and seeks but one solitary goal: to carry forward the work of Christ himself under the lead ...

Marriage & Divorce - Mark 10:1-16 - St John's Anglican Church

Whether we are single, married, divorced, or widowed – in this passage we encounter Jesus' teachings about how we relate to one another with ...

Genesis 1-3 and Ephesians 5:21-6:4 - Biblical Perspective on ...

In other words, it was God's purpose from eternity to design human marriage as a signpost to the reality of the union of Christ and his church ...

Marriage and Holiness | Sermons | The Church at Spring Hill

Marriage is a shadow of a higher reality. God designed marriage to teach us about His relationship with us. Marriage is commonly viewed as ...

Marriage, Divorce, & Moses (Matthew 5:31–32) - Refuge Church

Another reason for Jesus' strong teaching on marriage is what goes wrong when marriage does. When marriage goes wrong, something God made is ...

Sermon on the Mount: Adultery & Divorce

For the rest of history, people have continued to marry each other, and have families, and at their best marriages actually reflect God and draw ...

What Does Jesus Teach About Nuclear Family? | Articles - Living Out

The promise to provide family members is another reference to the spiritual family of the church. While some may lose biological or nuclear ...

The Danger of Divorce - Christ Covenant Church

Because the joining together in marriage is a solemn business. What God has joined together, let no one separate. Every marriage I have ever ...

Radical Jesus - Lehman Avenue Church of Christ

Jesus did not teach change that reformed religion, as many—even some Christians—would propose today. I believe it is more accurate to say that ...

"Building on the Rock" – Matthew 7:24–29

Because Jesus Christ, God's Son, is the Rock. He is the foundation underneath and supporting God's house, the church. Now, anyone who's ever owned a home knows ...

Love and Respect: Rediscovering the Beauty of Biblical Marriage ...

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, ...

Marty's Muses- Radical Love - Rousculp Church of Christ

He's a great preacher and teacher, and knows the Bible incredibly well. I recently heard that he was affirming homosexual/transgender marriages. I thought that ...

Radical Obedience - Stephen Wiggins - Southwest Church of Christ

Jesus says when a person divorces his or her spouse and remarries another person that they enter an adulterous union. And they who marry the divorcee commit ...

Here's Why Christians Should Avoid the Teachings of Richard Rohr

And I have realized that the doctrines that the church teach are not the things that Jesus taught. ... God reveals Himself a little more & a little more. Then we ...

The Tragedy of Joshua Harris: Sobering Thoughts for Evangelicals

The Bible reveals God's intention for us in our gender, in our sexuality, in marriage, and in all sexual expression, and the Bible also ...

Jesus' Vision for Our Sexuality - Moral Revolution

He says here that sex within marriage has a larger purpose than personal fulfillment, therefore one should never divorce. And so, Jesus ...

The Radical Nature of Our Catholic Faith - Renewal Ministries

We also must get clear about marriage and sexuality—which compose the point of the spear that the culture is using against the heart of the ...

The stories Jesus told were radical - Richardson SDA Church

Christ was not to close up the breach that had been made by the teachings of John. He would make more distinct the separation between the old ...