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NURTURING. If there is true love in the husband's heart, he will also want his wife to be healthy. He will care for her physically; he will provide for her spiritually. He will have the greatest concern for her relationship to God! She is "his own flesh" and no man ever yet hated his own flesh, "but
You may use and abuse your wives however you would like, but here's the control. Here's the protection. Dwell with them. Make sure that you are living with them, says the Apostle Peter, and that you honor them, even though you are their head. Honor them because they are the co-heirs of the grac
And then we come home And we deceive ourselves if we think that after we get done with our wage earning work, that our giving ourselves for our wife is all done. It's hardly even started. And if a man concludes after he's come home from work that he's given himself for his wife and now he reall
Is she so perfect? And yet, He was willing to die for her in order to sanctify and cleanse her. When we take our eyes off Christ, then we husbands quickly fall into the vile bitterness of exercising a lordly superiority as if we ourselves are something apart from Christ. Rather than showing affe
Marriage is too often just taken for granted. Husbands are the bread winners. Theirs is the responsibility to take care of all the extra chores when they are at home. Wives are too tired to be ready to share their lives with their husbands. Too often they grow apart, a barrier arises between them th
The husbands in the church are called to be hard workers in the kingdom of Christ. They are to work diligently to bring home the spiritual food for their wives and families. After a man sits down with his wife and partakes with her of the physical food he has worked to provide, he then must open the
Now, he's not under the authority of the wife, as so many today want us to believe. husband has received the authority from God to be the head in the home and the marriage. But even though he occupies that place of authority in the marriage, the husband himself is one who's under authority. Ulti
is the strength and comfort of his wife. He strives to be understanding. Sometimes, to be sure, that requires correction. Certainly it requires this if the husband is concerned for the salvation of his wife. But even when he must correct his wife the husband gently leads her in the way of the Word o
Husbands must indeed love their wives. That is their chief calling in marriage. But the text before us today sets the same calling before you wives. To love your husband is to live for him, recognizing his headship as the picture of Christ’s headship over the church. It is to pray for him and to sup