Proverbs on Marriage
Big Idea: Bad wife, bad life. Good wife, good life.
1. The Bad Wife
2. The Good Wife
Preparing for Sunday
Come Ready to Worship
Each week, we provide the following resources to help you spiritually prepare for communal worship. Investing time in preparation will enable you to grow and worship God more deeply during the Sunday Service. Resources for the upcoming Sunday are available by Saturday morning.
Preparation Questions:
1. What are the "natural" consequences of adultery?
2. Are you genuinely afraid of these consequences? Why or why not?
3. What qualities would you use to describe an excellent wife?
4. How much do you possess those qualities?
Sunday Songs
You can listen to our musical lineup for the Sunday Service using the YouTube links or the Spotify Playlist below.
Song Highlight: The Everlasting Love of God
This song was written quite recently by Matt Boswell and Matt Papa on their latest album together Almost Home. The Everlasting Love of God is not just another Christian radio song talking about how God loves us, but rather Boswell and Papa write specifically how the Triune God loved His elect before the foundation of the world, how His love is ever with us now, and how we will dwell in the love of the Trinity for all of eternity. They no doubt had Ephesians 1:4b-6 in mind as they wrote this: “In love He predestined us for adoption to Himself as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will, to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved." (ESV)
At times, we often (myself included) take the simple, glorious truth’s of the scripture such as “God loves me” for granted and pass right over them in our times of study. And one may say, “well of course He does ‘Jesus loves me this I know for the Bible tells me so’”. For those who have been in the church a while, we have heard about the love of God towards sinners many times so that it just comes and goes without much thought. But this truth is absolutely mind shattering! This truth that the God of the universe, creator or all things, glorious and majestic, wise and splendid, powerful and just, merciful and mighty, eternal and unchanging, the Lord of hosts, this God would love us, enemies and haters of God, dead dogs, vile worms, dead in sins and transgressions. And He doesn’t just love us, but He then restores us and makes us new in Him. And we’re not just restored, but given the perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ. And if that weren’t enough, we get to be caught up in the love that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have been enjoying for all of eternity. The only response we can have is with Charles Wesley in his hymn when he says “Amazing Love! How can it be? That Thou, my God, should die for me?” How can it be? It can be through the loving election of the Father, the loving sacrifice of the Son, and the love of the Spirit that seals our redemption. This truly can enable us to sing:
“Oh the everlasting love of God
It shall ever be my song
So immense and free more than life to me
The everlasting love of God”