Did you know God is a husband? The Bible is nuptial: it begins with the wedding of Adam and Eve and ends with the wedding of Christ and the Church. As the divine Husband, God established the pattern for marriage. God is a husband, the archetype of husbandly love and
Genesis 24 is the longest chapter in the book. And what is the subject of this chapter? It is not about the creation, as important as that is. We live in a universe alive with life because before the creation of the world, God existed. He filled the universe with
Woman, the life giver How many times can you read a passage of Scripture and see what you have never seen before? This has been a pattern throughout my life, going deeper into a familiar passage of Scripture and finding new truths. A simple truth on the surface of a
Jose Gonzalez wrote The Toxic Hispanic Cultural View of Sex and we encourage you to read it if you haven’t already. What a powerful exposure of a subject which has been taboo for too long. The video below captures an abbreviated version which serves as a great introduction to the full
The Jews are God’s blessing to the world, per His promise to Abraham in Genesis 12:2-3. In part 1 we saw how this truth is demonstrated in the gifts of Christmas, the Scripture, much of our vocabulary, monotheism, the Biblical worldview, the concept of work as worship, and our significance
We have written about the abuse of power by the “new fascists,” about their use of language as weapons. This final post in the series will address fascist bullies. Marriage and the family, both inventions of God, are under assault from a new class of bullies: fascists. Increasingly, governments are
This is the third in a three-part series. As you read this short series, please remember to pray for the precious women and girls that are trafficked and the men who traffic them. It is into that context of sex trafficking and the demeaning of women that these words of
If the church does not disciple the nation, the nation will disciple the church. The church has largely abandoned Jesus’ great commission to disciple nations. Yes, we have done lots of missionary activities, virtually everywhere around the world. But the mandate is not simply to take the gospel of Christ
We are happy to publish here a very helpful article from our friend Jose Gonzalez. See below for his bio. While his subject has universal importance, he is especially addressing Latin American contexts. To understand our Latin mindset about sex, it is necessary to understand certain mutually reinforcing concepts: Gnosticism,
Mike and Karen Pence, photo by Gage Skidmore “To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their conscience are defiled,” Titus 1:15 ESV. The polluted conscience of an unbelieving mind defiles even what is innocent and pure.
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