Celebrate Marriage!
Overview
Celebrate Marriage! emphasizes marriage and its effect on the whole family. The concepts of marriage change depending on the time period and the culture. The focus in this book is to recapture the institution and experience of marriage as it came from the Creator’s hand and as it has been recreated in Christ. This resource is packed with valuable program helps from sermons, to seminars, to children’s stories. You’ll also find useful articles on love, biblical passages, premarital resources, divorce and remarriage, sexual identity, and many other topics pertinent to family health. Pastors, elders, and family ministry leaders will benefit from this collection of tools to help build up the families in and around your congregation. Though the focus is marriage, all will benefit from the study of relationships that follow God’s plan.
Top Highlights
“This type of love, romantic, capricious, exalted and constantly re-invented by western literature over many centuries, and popularized by the media, has been often prized for its lack of responsibility; that it is to say, for the tendency to refuse any accountability to any norm. This love is like a kind of sickness that strikes the one who ‘falls in love’. It also disappears as it has come, suddenly and without any explanation.” (Page 80)
“‘If the husband and wife would only continue to cultivate these attentions which nourish love, they would be happy in each other’s society and would have a sanctifying influence upon their families’ (Mind, Character and Personality, vol. I, p. 158).” (Page 13)
“It does not mean forgetting, but forgiving does mean letting go, releasing the one who has hurt you into the care and keeping of God with the quiet prayer: ‘I forgive you for what you did to me, even as God has forgiven me for what I have done to Him. I choose to let go of my anger and bitterness toward you. I forgive you.’” (Page 6)
“One well-ordered, well-disciplined family tells more in behalf of Christianity than all the sermons that can be preached’ (The Adventist Home, p.” (Page v)
“The language of love, in the same way as the experience of it, varies according to persons, times and circumstances” (Page 79)
- Title: Celebrate Marriage!
- Authors: Ron Flowers, Karen Flowers
- Publisher: Department of Family Ministries
- Print Publication Date: 2004
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Marriage and family
- ISBNs: 1577561449, 9781577561446
- Resource ID: LLS:CLBRTMRRGMPLNBK
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T22:45:10Z