Peter, Paul and …Sarah?

 In the same way, wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands so that, even if some disobey the word, they may be won over without a word by the way their wives live  when they observe your pure, reverent lives.  Don’t let your beauty consist of outward things like...

The Character of Biblical Headship (Part 2)

“An overseer, therefore, must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, self-controlled, sensible, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, not an excessive drinker, not a bully, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not greedy.” 1 Timothy 3:2-3 In our last post on headship,...

What does Ephesians 5 mean by Submission?

Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord, 23 because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives are to submit to their husbands in...

Deuteronomy 6 and the Meaning of Marriage

Deuteronomy 6:20-23 reads: 20 “When your son asks you in the future, ‘What is the meaning of the decrees, statutes, and ordinances that the Lord our God has commanded you?’ 21 tell him, ‘We were slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a...

What Does a Good Husband Look Like?

This week we are taking a closer look at Ephesians 5, one of the passages in the Bible that talks about specific roles for husbands and wives. “Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord, because the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the...