1. If you are not experiencing the “lilyness” of your wife, you will not much know the “brambleness” of other women. More light means shadows flee.
2. There are dimensions of sexual delight/joy that we cannot and will not know except through the portal of a radical sexual purity. “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” (Matthew 5)
3. It is not right to be moderate or controlled in our longings for God, and neither is it right to be moderate or controlled in our longings for our spouses. We must not settle for moderate affections because like it or not, the true worth of an object, whether a person or a thing, is revealed by our delight in them or it. What an accurate way to check the pulse of your marriage.
4. It glorifies God that we are changing creatures, changing in the sense that we are being renewed day by day. This being so, we ought to be able to look at last month’s version of ourselves and see that we are moving further into Christlikeness and therefore further from what we once were.
1. When you treasure someone or something, you treat them or it well.
2. We want to live in the vague smudges of tolerance, plurality, relativism, wholeness, inclusiveness, non-judgmentalism etc…because there we find justification for our depravity.
3. Preaching that is not worship is of little value in satisfying the hearts, minds and souls of men.
4. Excessive comfort is a form of enslavement.
1. It is not okay to be marginally enamored of one’s spouse if God is sovereign, and therefore chose them for us and us for them.
1. Our prayers can go where we cannot, therefore let us pray fervently and hopefully and unceasingly.
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1. How obvious yet quickly set aside or forgotten, that you have something to say about Jesus Christ only
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1. A large pile of snow (the effects of sin) sitting in 100 degree heat will still need
1. Like our unbelieving neighbors, we American Christians also suffer from a national narcissism that was once a healthy and good national pride.
1. If your appetite for intimacy with your
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1. A heart pumping at 70 beats per minute beats 100,800 times in a day