The Heidelberg Catechism - The Foundations Of Our Faith

EPHESIANS 5:22-33  MAGNIFICENT MARRIAGES Law and Grace Genesis 2:15-25, 3:16-19 The priority of marriage. The permanence of marriage. " Shall be joined to his wife " means "welded together." Mark 10:9 The purpose of marriage. • companionship       • cooperation    • completion • communication      • continuation Nine differences between men and women 1. man is to be the provider and woman is to be the helper 2. the husband is the protector, the woman is the nurturer 3. the man is to be the leader and the woman is to be the enhancer 4. man is physically strong, the woman is more fragile 5. men approach problems head first and women approach things heart first 6. men tend to strive for achievement and women strive for security 7. a man sees his job as an extension of himself a woman sees the home as an extension of herself 8. a woman tends to be more sensitive and men tend to be insensitive 9. men tend to be defensive, women tend to be trusting     Mariane Holbrook...

  Romans 15: 5 May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,6 that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.7 Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.   Psalms 139: Search Me, O God, and Know My Heart            To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. 1         O LORD, you have searched me and known me! 2                You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar. 3                You search out my path and my lying down          and are acquainted with all my ways. 4                Even before a word is on my tongue,           behold, O LORD, you know it altogether. 5                You hem me in, behind and before,  and lay your hand upon me. 6                Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;  it is high; I cannot attain it. 7                Where shall I go from your Spirit?  O...

Deuteronomy 6:1–9 1   "Now this is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that the LORD your God commanded me to teach you, that you may do them in the land to which you are going over, to possess it,2 that you may fear the LORD your God, you and your son and your son's son, by keeping all his statutes and his commandments, which I command you, all the days of your life, and that your days may be long.3 Hear therefore, O Israel, and be careful to do them, that it may go well with you, and that you may multiply greatly, as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you, in a land flowing with milk and honey. Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one.5 You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart.7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when y...

EPHESIANS 5:22-33  MARRIAGES THAT WORK. Law and Grace Reading Genesis 2:15-25, 3:16-19 15       The LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may surely eat of every tree of the garden,17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die." 18       Then the LORD God said, "It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him."19 Now out of the ground the LORD God had formed every beast of the field and every bird of the heavens and brought them to the man to see what he would call them. And whatever the man called every living creature, that was its name.20 The man gave names to all livestock and to the birds of the heavens and to every beast of the field. But for Adam there was not found a helper fit for him.21 So the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall upon the man, and whil...