Building Strong Families

Of Heaven’s Joy, which you esteem And cherish more than breath and life, That you may give it to your wife. The greatest gift yo ...

4 THE HUSBAND AS PROPHET, PRIEST, AND KING^1 Bob Lepine R Just what does the Bible mean when it teaches in 1 Corinthians 11 that ...

church, or in which God is the head of Christ, in order to know how a husband should be the head of his wife. In his Institutes, ...

As she got louder, so did we. It took ten or fifteen minutes of “Crown Him with Many Crowns” and “All Hail the Power of Jesus’ N ...

Begin by praying that God would be glorified in and through her life. Above all else, a husband should pray for what brings glo ...

He can also pray that his wife would find companions and soul- mates who share not only her faith in Christ but also her convic ...

a man may not be a vocational theologian, but in his home he must be the resident theologian. The apostle Paul, when he is urgin ...

Wilson astutely observes that husbands are to blame for the theo- logical breakdown in the church today. “The evangelical world, ...

enough to sit still, but as they squirm or stare out the window, most fathers throw in the towel and give up the whole idea. A h ...

one of the keys is confronting sin in your mate. But we are reminded in Proverbs that the wounds of a friend are faithful (Prov. ...

He is to know and apply the law of God in the home. A husband is responsible to represent his wife and his family in the culture ...

areas in your marriage where you need to start showing some leader- ship. Ask your wife to point out areas where you can be lead ...

a mother, it was clear he was not being presumptuous. He was being the kind of kingly husband his wife ultimately wants and need ...

Christians to “be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, that you may be able to st ...

NOTES The ideas on which this chapter is based were originally developed for Bob Lepine, The Christian Husband(Ann Arbor, Mich. ...

5 A SONG OF JOY: SEXUAL INTIMACY IN MARRIAGE C. J. Mahaney R It was his magnum opus, the best and most important work he had eve ...

INTERPRETING THESONG Sincere Christians, many of them far more mature and knowledge- able than I, may hold a different interpret ...

ited duration. It is a gift to married couples, to be enjoyed for as long as they both shall live. I don’t believe the Song of S ...

This approach, which would be divinely forbidden, scandalous, and deeply shameful in any other context, is encouraged and esteem ...

compliments her man in no uncertain terms—there is both beauty and brilliance. In these phrases, the most private emotions are e ...