If you spent even a little time looking over the required curriculum for M.Div. students at most evangelical seminaries, you will notice a heavy emphasis on Biblical languages and Scripture exegesis. In my former denomination, this emphasis is reflected in their ordaining process, which pushes candidates to memorize Scripture for each doctrine of interest to the … Continue reading “A Conspicuous Absence In Pastoral Training!”
Category: Theology of divorce
Update: Freed Pastor Saeed Abedini Files To Divorce Naghmeh Abedini
Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable … not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. I Timothy 3:2a,3b (NIV) Related Post: “Naghmeh Abedini And Sorting My Painful History” Pastor Saeed Abedini is one of the five captives freed from Iran this past January. His … Continue reading “Update: Freed Pastor Saeed Abedini Files To Divorce Naghmeh Abedini”
Money Struggles Stress Test
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows. -I Timothy 6:10, KJV Not having money is stressful! This is true individually as well as for marriages and families. It is difficult to deal … Continue reading “Money Struggles Stress Test”
DM Processing Recent RNS Tullian Tchividjian Interview
On Thursday, an interview was published between Tullian Tchividjian and Jonathan Merritt on the Religious News Service. The interview is entitled, “Billy Graham’s grandson on his near suicide and whether he’s planning a comeback.” To begin, I want to be clear that I am glad TT did not die by suicide. Human life is a … Continue reading “DM Processing Recent RNS Tullian Tchividjian Interview”
Repentant or Rebranding? Tullian Tchividjian in the news, again.
But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone named a brother, who is sexually immoral…—not even to eat with such a person. -I Corinthians 5:11, NKJV Disgraced Pastor Tullian Tchividjian, grandson of Reverend Billy Graham, is back in the news again. This time he wrote a piece on a website … Continue reading “Repentant or Rebranding? Tullian Tchividjian in the news, again.”
Can you live with the lies?
All day long you plot destruction. Your tongue cuts like a sharp razor; you’re an expert at telling lies. You love evil more than good and lies more than truth. -Psalm 52:2-3, NLT I am a firm believer when it comes to full disclosure to the faithful spouse regarding what the cheater did. Darkness is only … Continue reading “Can you live with the lies?”
Not Funny: “I am so glad my wife puts up with me. Ha. Ha.”
Some Pharisees came to him to test him [Jesus]. They asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any and every reason?” -Matthew 19:3, NIV Jesus’ response (summarized): NO. Divorce is only permissible for sexual immorality (see Matthew 19:9). It is healthy to extend grace to our spouses for their foibles … Continue reading “Not Funny: “I am so glad my wife puts up with me. Ha. Ha.””
Reconciling Cheaters, Better Bring Your “A” Game!
Thus saith the LORD, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. -Isaiah 50:1, KJV A cheater is not … Continue reading “Reconciling Cheaters, Better Bring Your “A” Game!”
What was the most confusing thing about the experience?
What was the most confusing part of the experience? So much is confusing and difficult when discovering a spouse has been unfaithful. So called “Christian” advice to forgive and forget in an effort to “save” the marriage is a big piece that adds to the confusion of the day. Another candidate for most confusing is the … Continue reading “What was the most confusing thing about the experience?”
Does Feminism Cause Divorce?
Test all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil. -I Thessalonians 5:21-22, NKJV Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves….Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, … Continue reading “Does Feminism Cause Divorce?”