Comments | bravobevo: A Husband's Leadership as Lover, Protector & Provider . . . ephesians 5:22-29

bravobevo

A Husband's Leadership as Lover, Protector & Provider . . . ephesians 5:22-29

Mar 20, 2007 06:44

Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is head of the wife, as also Christ is head of the church; and He is the Savior of the body. Therefore, just as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave ( Read more... )

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Interesting . . . bravobevo March 21 2007, 14:46:54 UTC

. . . since I don't believe in chance, fate, serendipity or happenstance, either these things (the fact that this subject was discussed/presented so soon in different settings thousands of miles apart) are very well coordinated or God is at work again. LOL, I vote for God.

Saturday afternoon's speaker for this topic was Dr. Robert Lewis (I don't know anything else about him other than that he has designed material to assist churches in developing a "men's ministry" - something most churches lack). Lewis spoke at the regional conference organized by "Iron Sharpens Iron" and "Texas Men of Impact."

My lovely wife Brenda and I have been married 25 years and have been attending church even longer than that, but this is the first time I've heard the passage explained like this. Maybe it's been said before and I just wasn't listening.

Love Languages wubbarub March 21 2007, 23:19:05 UTC

You should get the book "The Five Love Languages" by Gary Chapman. I have been happily married for five years, and still found this book to be a wonderful tool for learning my own "love language" and that of my husband's.

Re: Love Languages bravobevo March 22 2007, 14:30:18 UTC

Yeah, thank you for the encouragement. I guess it's about time for me to do so, even though I've heard (generally) of Gary Chapman for many years now and as a guy the topic really never grabbed me.

I went to your LJ page entitled "Faith is not believing without proof" with the subtitle "but trusting without reservation". At first I read it as saying "Faith is not believing WITHOUT proof" which seems counterintuitive, but then I re-read it as you had probably intended, such as "Faith is NOT 'believing without proof'." Perhaps I'm still not picking up the subtle nuances that you might have intended with that title. If so, I'd like to know.

That title reminds me of a Sunday School lesson last month about John 6:30, when the Jews (some had been part of the 5,000 men whom Jesus fed with a couple of sardines and crackers) found Jesus the next day and demanded more "proof" (i.e. signs) that Jesus is God, instead of responding to the evidence that Jesus had already provided. Anyway, short story, Jesus rebuked them for trying to set ( ... )

Re: Love Languages wubbarub March 22 2007, 21:29:27 UTC

You were right on the second one...Faith is NOT 'believing without proof'...but trusting without reservation. I came across that saying somewhere, and really liked it, mostly because at the time, I was trying to explain to my (at the time) unsaved husband what faith is. I think that explanation really helped him to turn a corner. He accepted Christ 5 months ago.

I would like to see that Sunday School lesson if you ever get a chance to post it.