What’s the Point of the Daily Grind? – Psalm 127:1-5

Why do you work all day? is it worth it? Is is just for yourself, or is it for your marriage and family, or to prepare for a marriage and family? In this video we explore Psalm 127, a key Psalm about work, marriage and family. And get this, it strongly asserts that children are a gift from God!

In the video I refer to Harrison Butker’s speech. Here’s a link to a transcript of the entire speech ➤ https://www.ncregister.com/news/harrison-butker-speech-at-benedictine

In the video I also refer to these verses as part of giving the Bible’s perspective on work and family:
➤ Proverbs 23:4-5
➤ Proverbs 20:13
➤ Ecclesiastes 4:7-8
➤ Ecclesiastes 5:12
➤ Luke 12:15
➤ Psalm 127
➤ Job 42

Building Our Dream From God Together — Psalm 128:1-6

In this video, I share how we can build our dream from God together through prayer and faith. Join us as we explore Psalm 128:1-6 and discuss the importance of marriage and family in our journey upon this earth together.

In this video I refer to the popular 1987 song by the group Starship. Here’s the official music video if you want to watch it – Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now ► https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tub93PAAO3k

Promoting Godly Marriages: Honoring Marriage As God Wants Marriage Honored — Hebrews 13:4

How can we honor marriage with so much cynicism about marriage nowadays? Men and women trash marriage so much online!

In this video we explore and explain Hebrews 13:4, where the people of God are called to honor marriage and to understand what that entails. Surely there are times when people will fail in this world, but there are just as surely God given reasons for Christians to honor marriage!

Making Yourself Marriageable (For Young Women)

With perhaps some fear, trembling and much caution — or maybe not — I offer some guidance from the Bible from Proverbs, Titus, II Timothy, and Genesis for younger women to develop themselves to become marriageable. Maybe we need to look back some decades to recover some wisdom which has been lost over the years.

Promoting Godly Marriages: Dealing with the Reality of Breakups and Unrequited Love

My not-too-controversial opinion is that pastors and people in our evangelical churches need to improve greatly in how they handle breakups and unrequited love among the single people in our churches. There are a lot of excuses that men and women have for why they break up with dating partners and engagements. My belief is that for some the paths to divorce may start in junior high school with the way that they’ve learned to date. Moreover, there are a lot of simple, compassionate things that can be done to assist single people in dating and when dating relationships and engagements come to an end. And maybe sometimes the better choices that men and women have had for their spouses were people whom they broke up with or did not even consider after they went into marriage that later failed.

In the video I refer to Psalm 147:3 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Psalm+147%3A3&version=ESV .

In the video I also refer to the book by Laura Smit, Loves Me, Loves Me Not: The Ethics of Unrequited Love https://www.amazon.com/Loves-Me-Not-Ethics-Unrequited/dp/080102997X/

Promoting Godly Marriages: From Personal Independence to Mutual Interdependence

Independence is not a destination in itself; the goal of marriage means reaching beyond independence toward adult responsibility and mutual interdependence. This video is my suggestions on how to get on that journey.

Promoting Godly Marriages: Making Wise Introductions

This is the second in my projected 8 part series in which I give some guidance from the Bible and experience to how our evangelical churches can promote godly marriages in the never married, scripturally divorced, and widowed. There is a real place, I believe, for making wise introductions of single (never married, scripturally divorced and widowed men and women) to each other in the church. But few people follow the path which I mention here — but I’ve seen it actually become very successful!

Promoting Godly Marriages: Confronting Foolish Fixup Behavior

This is the first video in a projected 8 part series in which I give some guidance from the Bible and experience to how our evangelical churches can promote godly marriages in the never married, scripturally divorced, and widowed. So, to start, we deal with do no harm first. This first part deals tendency of some in the church to try to fix up any single man or woman that they might happen to meet with any other single person of the opposite sex that they might happen to know. I give 12 reasons why this is foolish. Do we have such an overabundance of godly husbands and wives and fathers in mothers in our churches that we can continue to play such childish, self promoting games with the lives of other people — especially the most significant decisions in their lives?

Watching Kevin Samuels

In this video, I give a brief introduction to my recent views of the late Kevin Samuels’s videos on YouTube. I wish that his voice would have been able to continue for some years. Maybe there will be some others that will continue with his message and yet also avoid his own shortcomings themselves.

I also recommend this book by this gentleman, fellow believer and pastor in the video. Let’s surprise him by having a run on this book. Thabiti Anyabwile, Reviving the Black Church: New Life for a Sacred Institution

Feminine Christlikeness

How can a woman act more and more like Jesus? Especially a married woman, who may not even be married to a man who is following Jesus closely?

The late Kevin Samuels often mentioned submission when he was talking to women who professed to be Christians and wanted to be married. He really didn’t explain what the scriptures had to say on this in depth, and here I’m giving something of a guide to what this may mean. But this would is also for anyone, man or woman, who has never listened to Kevin Samuels!

My position comparable to that of Mike Winger, that of a “mild complementarian.” Here’s what he had to say on the same passage: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8PFVZgIQ2w