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#5: Making Peace With Each Other
But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin and touched Moses’ feet with it. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said. Zipporah performed hasty surgery on her son when she realized God was about to kill her husband, Moses. While it isn’t stated, evidently God was about to…
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#4: The Need For Respect
Say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake and my life will be spared because of you. (Genesis 12:13) Life can present a married couple with tough choices. Do you take the promotion at work if it means traveling with business associates who have no scruples? Do you…
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#3: Marking The Starting Line
Then Noah built an altar to the Lord and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it. (Genesis 8: 20) Noah’s altar in Genesis is a ritual that other people had sacrificed animals before. Many had directed their prayers heavenward in the smoke of offerings. But that…
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#2: Loving Our Differences
“The Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.’” (Genesis 2:18) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and for the finishing touch, he made a human man in his own image, with a soul that would live forever.…
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#1: Conquering Regrets
Genesis 19:17 says “Flee for your lives! Don’t look back, and don’t stop anywhere in the plain! Flee to the mountains or you will be swept away!” If only we hadn’t married so soon. If only we had more money. If only I had married Jake instead of John. Regrets in marriage are damaging. They…
