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True marriage bears witness to all people, including to persons with same-sex attraction, of something deeper and more beautiful than two...

‘Since we have confidence to enter the Most holy place through the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us by His body, let...

May I implore you to join me in prayer for marriage? For children’s sake, might we pray for those making a case for marriage before the...

‘Am I stone and not a sheep, that I can stand, O Christ, beneath Thy Cross, To number drop by drop Thy blood’s slow loss, and yet not...

Gender difference is at the center of such wholeness. Becoming a whole sexual gift to another depends on that difference. Theologian John...

‘For we are reduced, O Lord, brought low everywhere in the world this day because of our sins.’ (Dan. 3: 37) Another pastor I know...

‘In order for God’s image to shine radiantly in him, man must first receive the purification whereby the divine Sculptor frees him from...

‘For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.’ (Matt. 6: 21) A few years ago, my teenage son told me that the largest...

‘You will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail.’  – (IS 58: 11b) One sees this clearly in a good...

Maybe I fought because I believe that marriage belongs to God. He ordained it as the relationship that civilizes our sexuality, makes it...

‘You have forsaken your first love. Remember the height from which you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first. If you do...

‘For Zion’s sake, I shall not be silent, for Jerusalem’s sake, I will not remain quiet, until her righteousness shines forth like the...

You could cite Obama’s slide as America’s; he started 4 years ago resolute in his ‘Christian’ commitment to marriage then unraveled. He...

Deadened like you by a disastrous election (marriage trounced in four states, abortion’s champion re-elected—more on this later), I...

The beauty and power of sex is managed well when it is oriented toward creating and tending new life. That presumes, of course, that the...

‘In peace I shall both lie down and sleep for You alone, Lord, make me secure.’ (Ps. 4: 8 NAB) So I pray and make known the truth as best...

‘I will lie down and sleep in peace…’ (Ps. 4:8) We can cover them with our prayers. Those prayers begin with confession and repentance...

‘For You alone, Lord, make me secure.’ (Ps. 4:8 NAB) One day I was wrestling with some shameful sexual feelings until I surrendered them...

‘I will lie down and sleep in peace, because You alone, O Lord, make me secure.’ (PS 4:8) Fear competes with faith and often wins....

‘You have filled my heart with greater joy than when their grain and new wine grain abound.’ (Ps. 4:7) The first fruit, and the greatest...