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Martin Luther on marriage and the devil
Following on from Lutheran Pastor Joshua Scheer’s defence of marriage as a God-given institution, one of his readers included excerpts of a sermon from Martin Luther on the subject. Excerpts follow...
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What next for the institution of marriage?
On Friday, April 12, 2013, France’s Senate passed legislation approving same-sex marriage. It now remains for their Parliament and Senate to debate and vote on the bill’s amendments. France has had...
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Sex education in state schools
State school supporters — including left-leaning ‘committed Christians’ — often downplay the questionable influence that sex education has on students. Yet, such plans and lessons have long been part...
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Methodist pastors in the news — performing same-sex marriage ‘act of love’
The theologically conservative Episcopalian-Anglican site, Stand Firm, recently featured a post about the 31 Methodist pastors who plan to jointly officiate at a same-sex marriage in Pennsylvania this...
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An ‘unconsitutional’ ban on polygamy opens only one door
Most people reading the recent news that the ban on polygamy in Utah might be unconstitutional will cite consequences of family breakdown and changing tax advantages for married couples. Whilst those...
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Vulnerability and life-changing situations
As some of us know, vulnerability — principally because of age or loss — can create a vacuum to be filled by an unscrupulous, manipulative fraudster. This has been the case throughout history, although...
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Family secrets
It is puzzling that families have so-called ‘secrets’ which are not scandalous. Why would it be scandalous to share information about illness or something else about oneself or one’s spouse such as a...
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Forbidden Bible Verses — Luke 16:18
Continuing a study of the passages from Luke’s Gospel which have been omitted from the three-year Lectionary for public worship, today’s post is part of my ongoing series Forbidden Bible Verses, also...
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Being grateful for what we have in a materialistic world
At the weekend, I read two comprehensive schools guides concerning the UK. It astounded me to see how much term fees were for both prep (infant/primary) and secondary independent (including some...
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Downton Abbey‘s Igor on marriage
The new season of Downton Abbey does not disappoint. The last two episodes have seemed a bit slow, but the shocking surprise endings in each have more than made up for what some viewers might regard as...
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The decline of natural law theory and the family
When I was attending Catholic schools in the 1970s, the nuns and teaching priests emphasised the importance of God-given natural law. The Book of Genesis describes what our roles are as men and women....
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Which is more deplorable, the gun culture or the fatherless culture?
I have a backlog of unused links in a Pending folder. One of them is a profile of radio host Larry Elder‘s 2012 book Dear Father, Dear Son with the subtitle Two Lives, Eight Hours. The photo is of his...
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Forbidden Bible Verses — Matthew 5:31-32
The three-year Lectionary that many Catholics and Protestants hear in public worship gives us a great variety of Holy Scripture. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. My series Forbidden Bible Verses —...
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Marriage and women — from fribbles to the French
Continuing with a very brief exploration of women and marriage — the first part of which was yesterday’s post on wife selling — today’s looks at old advice about this honourable institution. Molly...
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English couple celebrate 75th wedding anniversary
Norman and Joyce Johnson celebrated their 75th wedding anniversary a few days ago in July 2015. The two grew up in the same area of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, and met early in adolescence. Joyce was...
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Conversions of convenience or the real thing?
In the early 21st the worldwide migration situation has produced Church-related anomalies in Europe, including the UK. One of these has been the marriage of convenience, as a Workpermit.com post from...
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Forbidden Bible Verses — Matthew 19:3-6
The three-year Lectionary that many Catholics and Protestants hear in public worship gives us a great variety of Holy Scripture. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. My series Forbidden Bible Verses —...
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Forbidden Bible Verses — Matthew 19:7-9
The three-year Lectionary that many Catholics and Protestants hear in public worship gives us a great variety of Holy Scripture. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. My series Forbidden Bible Verses —...
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Forbidden Bible Verses — Matthew 19:10-12
The three-year Lectionary that many Catholics and Protestants hear in public worship gives us a great variety of Holy Scripture. Yet, it doesn’t tell the whole story. My series Forbidden Bible Verses —...
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The six ‘P’s of marriage
A John MacArthur sermon I cited yesterday has a lovely explanation of marriage. Excerpts follow from his exposition of Matthew 19:10-12, ‘Jesus’ Teaching on Divorce, Part 4′. Emphases mine below....
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