1. While we wait in tribulation for our white robes (or pants) to be washed in the blood of the Lamb, we confess to one another our seen and unseen stains.
  2. Man and woman together are complete. Apart, they are incomplete. The two correspond and form “one flesh” when combined in sexual relationships and as helpmates.
  3. It’s God’s love that sets us free to love in the first place.
  4. Undue Protestant antipathies toward Mary have muted not only her place in redemption history and its necessary connection to Christology, but also the virtue of virginity.
  5. Unlike human marriage, which is marred by sin, Jesus never seeks to divorce us due to irreconcilable differences.
  6. In the vortex of uncertainty and upheaval, what’s the best thing we can do? Seize the ordinary.
  7. In some measure, if Luther had any success during his last two decades, it happened because of the woman who’d insisted on him as her bridegroom.
  8. Her importance goes beyond simply managing the reformer’s household.
  9. “I forgive you,” must be said and it must be said often in a marriage.
  10. One of the first steps in recovering from a broken marriage is to find ways to heal the divorce that’s happened within our own souls.
  11. When we read this chapter, we find that we are actually shaped by the word.
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