Topic · 13 posts
Marriage and family. What Scripture says, and how it works at home.
Marriage, parenting and the home worked out from Scripture rather than from advice — headship and submission, conflict, money, raising children.
- Oct 3, 2026 · 7 min→
'My son' — a father's advice in Proverbs, to sons and to fathers
Sixteen times Solomon says 'my son.' What he asks his son to do, and what the phrase assumes about the father: that what he's teaching is right, and that he's actually there.
- Genesis 1Sep 21, 2026 · 9 min→
The family was God's idea — what it is and why He made it
Before there was a government, a church, or a school, there was a family. What a family is, when God established it, and the three reasons He gave for it in Genesis 1.
- Sep 21, 2026 · 8 min→
How is a family supposed to operate? Love and lead, submit and serve, obey and honor
God's structure for the home in nine words — and why, when the following is poor, the leading usually is too. Plus a business idea that belongs in your living room: does your family have a purpose?
- Sep 21, 2026 · 9 min→
What a father is for — nurture, admonition, and the long game
One in four American children lives without a father at home, and the numbers that follow are sobering. Ephesians 6:4 and Proverbs on what a father is supposed to do — and a handful of practical things.
- Sep 21, 2026 · 8 min→
A marriage that lasts — communication, choosing to love, and forgiving in advance
The top reasons marriages end, and six ordinary habits that keep one together: talk, choose, hold each other up, stay affectionate, stay thoughtful, and decide to forgive before you need to.
- Sep 21, 2026 · 9 min→
Parenting — your children are your first disciples
You aren't responsible for your children; you're responsible to them. Make Jesus the why, get on the same page with your spouse, don't parent in reaction to your parents, and teach self-control by having some.
- Sep 21, 2026 · 8 min→
The mothers of Scripture — what Hannah, Sarah, Mary, and Eunice have in common
Seven mothers in the Bible, the doubts some of them started with, the faith they ended with, and what Proverbs 31, 1 Timothy 5, and Titus 2 say a mother's life is meant to look like.
- Sep 3, 2026 · 7 min→
The Christian husband: four things 1 Peter 3:7 asks of you
Live with her, seek to know her, honor her, and grow together in Jesus — so that your prayers aren't hindered. One verse, four assignments for husbands.
- Sep 2, 2026 · 8 min→
Wives, submit as unto the Lord: what Ephesians 5 actually asks
Submission isn't inferiority and it isn't something done to you. It's something Jesus did. What Ephesians 5:22–24 and 1 Peter 3 say to wives, in plain words.
- Sep 1, 2026 · 9 min→
Husbands, love your wife like Christ loves the church
Ephesians 5:25–33 gives husbands one command and the highest possible standard. What it means to love, give yourself up, nourish, and cherish your wife.
- Aug 31, 2026 · 7 min→
The root of most marriage problems (and the verse that fixes it)
Before Ephesians 5 says a word to wives or husbands, it says one thing to both: submit to one another in the fear of God. Most marriage trouble starts where that stops.
- Aug 30, 2026 · 9 min→
6 ways to improve your marriage, according to the Bible
Six honest, doable shifts that have strengthened marriages for thousands of years — each with something to try tonight, a prayer to pray, and a reason to give thanks.
- Aug 25, 2026 · 9 min→
One man, one woman, for life: what the Bible means by marriage
Marriage isn't a preference we hold. It's a definition God gave — one man and one woman, joined in covenant, for life. Here's what that means, what it means for the rest of us, and why we still say come as you are.
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