As I get closer and closer to having my own kids someday – no, I don’t have a wife or girlfriend – Im thinking about the world around me and processing what I see. Last night as we (friends) drove home from the awesome U2 concert, I saw young girls (14?) at the petrol service … Continue reading
Seek God for a word for your future relationship – or your current relationship – and ask Him for a word for you two, or even for your family or children. And then believe that word. Believe as Abram did, not knowing where he was going, he set out. [Urged on] by faith Abraham, when … Continue reading
Rabbi Lawrence Kelemen wrote a part of this book Let me quote bits and pieces from Rabbi Lawrence Kelemen, he lectures on Medieval and Modern Jewish Philosophy… There’s a Hebrew word which is often translated as “love”. It is the Hebrew word for love, but I don’t think it means the same thing that we in … Continue reading
Men, let’s tell the truth! If your partner was like this towards you (see the verse below), how would you react? let the wife see that she respects and reverences her husband [that she notices him, regards him, honors him, prefers him, venerates, and esteems him; and that she defers to him, praises him, and … Continue reading
YOU are the one who must FIRST be pursuing Jesus Christ and pressing into the things He has for you. If you are walking in that way, then she can see who you are and where you are going, and she is able to make a decision to a very important question: “can I submit … Continue reading
Did you see Avatar? In there Neytiri (the woman) says to Jake “I see you”. This happens after Jake tames the “Toruk” and saves the nation (the Toruk was a powerful flying predator that has been tamed only five times in Na’vi history). Until Jake steps up and becomes the man he was meant to … Continue reading
Men and women are called to different roles in a marriage. Let’s look at how the bible describes the different roles in Eph 5, which is where I have a spent a LOT of time over the past months… Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ. – Eph 5:21 Paul says clearly “submit … Continue reading
Can you see the amazing plan that God had in mind all along? He took us weak and helpless human beings who were trapped in sin and death, totally unable to help ourselves, and then He sent His Son Jesus Christ to be “the way” out of the mess. That is why Jesus Christ described … Continue reading
Jesus Christ is the Husband of His bride… which is the greater church (not just the people in the buildings, please note). He left the Earth and He went where? Why? What for? In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to … Continue reading
Firstly let me create some context. I don’t have a girlfriend. I haven’t had one for a long while. In fact in my whole life I’ve only ever made a commitment to two women, one of which was my ex-wife. I never actually dated much/at all either. But I believe that God has someone special … Continue reading