"A rightly ordered and healthy marriage displays or pictures the gospel (Eph. 5:22–33). As the world around us gets more and more confused as to what marriage is, this gospel-displaying property of marriage becomes even more important. This is especially true in the church and among pastors. The world should be able to look into a church and see something remarkably distinct. That said, we must be careful that the Bible constrains our un ..."
"The Bible has a way of shocking us. If Americans could still blush, we might blush at the words, “Rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love” (Proverbs 5:18-19).But, of course, sin always tries to trash God’s gifts. So we can’t just celebrate sex for what God made it to be; we have to fight what sin turned it into. The contributo ..."