Jonathan Edwards was not the product of a great revival; he was one of its catalysts.

We cannot continue to send our children to Caesar for their education and be surprised when they come home as Romans.

The church is instructed to look for its leaders in the first institution, the family.

It has been said that as goes the family, so goes the world. It can also be said that as goes the father, so goes the family.

In the New Testament church, a man's home was his resume.

Kids, you must seek to become the kind of people who plant shade trees for others to sit under.16

...he thought we had what southerners call a shotgun wedding. That's when the father holds a shotgun on his new son-in-law to make sure he marries the man's pregnant daughter.

We are seeing a complete cultural shift in our perception of marriage as the preferred state. In fact, I believe this trend is foreshadowing something far more serious—a wholesale rejection of marriage as an institution.

God gave marriage as a living illustration of the relationship between Christ and his church (Ephesians 5:32). If you want to teach the world the love of God, become husband who loves his wife as Christ loves the church (Ephesians 5:25). If you want to teach the world how the church submits to the Lord, become a wife who submits to her husband (Ephesians 5:22-24).

Who a man is as a husband and father to a large degree shapes who he is as a minister of the gospel. In fact, his calling is evaluated at least in part by how well he performs his duties in the home. I do not believe it is necessary to rank marriage and ministry any more than I would rank eating and drinking. Both are essential. My point is simply this: it is wrong to argue that marriage is somehow less important than ministry. Marriage is ministry.