More thoughts for Husbands

To follow up on Stephen’s sermon this week, here are a collection of things I’ve run into online recently.

First, let’s remember that when we are told to love our wives as Christ loved the church, that Christ did not love us with a cold but self-sacrificing love. Instead, He has tender affections toward us, as we should for our wives. Here’s how the English and Colonial Puritan Thomas Hooker described it:

“The man whose heart is endeared to the woman he loves . . . dreams of her in the night, hath her in his eye and apprehension when he awakes, museth on her as he sits at the table, walks with her when he travels. . . . She lies in his bosom, and his heart trusts in her, which forceth all to confess that the stream of his affection, like a mighty current, runs with full tide and strength.”

HT: Ray Ortlund

If you’d like to hear more about what it means to be a Godly man and husband, theologian Bruce Ware recently have a lecture on “Select Principles on Being a Biblically Faithful Man and Husband”. You can follow the link to an outline of the lecture, and find a link to the audio as well.

HT: Owen Strachan

If you’d rather read than listen, I found this book review for a book titled The Exemplary Husband. I haven’t read it, but the review certainly makes it sound worthwhile.

Finally, Russell Moore posts a question he received to his blog as a Questions and Ethics Query. The question is from a couple who is considering marriage, but concerned about the impact that major theological divisions might cause. Dr. Moore will likely post his response this week, but I post it here to encourage you to think about the importance of Christian Unity in marriage.

Posted by David Fenton on May 2, 06:57 PM