AS YOU PREPARE FOR CHRISTMAS, PLEASE HEAR THIS.
DECEMBER IS A BEAUTIFUL MONTH. And it’s beautiful for many beautiful reasons. It’s the month of thousands of weddings that result in the birth of thousands of brand new marriages, families and homes. It’s a month of holidays as most civil servants prefer to have their annual leave in December. It’s also a month of […]
THE HOUSEWIFE: A LOVER AND A WARRIOR.
WHEN THE EGYPTIAN OPPRESSION OF THE CHILDRENof Israel began, their enemies definitely thought they’d reduce their population in no time. But because the Israelites kept their marriages intact and fully functional, the depletion of their population didn’t only get quickly replenished, their ROBUST LOVE LIVES IN THE FACE OF TYRANNY became a great source of […]
THE PRIMARY PLACE OF SPOUSAL ADDICTION IN MARRIAGE
WHEN I WAS ELEVEN YEARS OLD, my parents were transferred to Lokoja, Nigeria. It was there that I saw an Addict for the first time in my life. Sadly, this Addict was a woman. People called her “OGOGORO WOMAN”. She was addicted to the illicit gin popularly known as OGOGORO. Her addiction was so bad […]
WHEN AS A WIFE, YOU’RE RICHER THAN YOUR HUSBAND, PLEASE BE HUMBLE!
GOD’S COMMANDMENTS TO WIVES to be submissive to their husbands(Eph. 5:23-24; 1 Pet. 3:1-5; Col. 3: 18) are not meant to give the impression that women are weaklings, underlings or that they are “inferiors” in the marriage relationship. Far from it! Neither is the word “HELPER” used to describe her purpose in Genesis 2: 18 […]
SPOUSES: ARISE AND SERVE GOD ON A WHOLE NEW DIMENSION!
OUR FIRST SCRIPTURE PASSAGE PRESENTS THE STORY OF A WEALTHY COUPLE IN SHUNEM, whose name the Bible has chosen to conceal. They were financially and materially blessed. One day, the wife of this unnamed man invited a passerby for a meal in their home. The passerby was Prophet Elisha. He promptly declined her invitation. […]
THE BEDROOM IS MIGHTIER THAN THE CRUELEST TYRANT AND HIS DECREES!
AFTER THE DEATH OF JOSEPH, there arose a new king over Egypt who unleashed a reign of terror on the Israelites. His name? Pharaoh Seti 1. He was the one that began the cruel enslavement of the Israelites. However, our concern today is how the Israelites stood tall in the face of that cruel […]
YOUR MARRIAGE AND THE GOVERNMENT
OVER ONE MONTH AGO, I ATTENDED a well attended Christian Couples’ Dinner in a beautiful hotel. In the course of the meeting,participants were asked to write and forward on a piece of paper what they individually thought were responsible for the disappearance of romantic love in Marriages.Among the submissions was one that got everyone laughing.The […]
BIBLICALLY APPROVED GROUNDS FOR REMARRIAGE (PT. 2)
YESTERDAY, WE LOOKED AT TWO SCRIPTURALLY valid grounds for remarriage. Today, we are looking at some more and they are as follows: (1) WHEN THERE’S A GRAND DECEPTION OR COVER-UP WHERE THE MAN IS A EUNUCH BUT CONCEALED IT FROM THE WOMAN BEFORE MARRIAGE. Another valid ground for marriage dissolution and remarriage is […]
BIBLICALLY APPROVED GROUNDS FOR REMARRIAGE (PT. 1)
FORTY THREE YEARS AGO,I bought a beautiful book on Marriage. In the Book, I read something that troubled me. It was the story of a christian gentleman who left home for Theological Seminary just three months after his Wedding, only to hear that his new Wife had deserted him and moved in with another man! […]
SPOUSES, REMEMBER LOT’S WIFE!
WHEN LOT AND HIS FAMILY WERE FAVOURED BY GOD to escape the judgement that would come upon Sodom and Gomorrah, God’s Angels told them clearly not to look back. Unfortunately, Lot’s wife did and she became a Pillar of Salt. As the children of Israel journeyed from Egypt to Canaan land, one of the undoing […]