The Weekly Bible Studies...

The weekly Bible studies:

On Wednesday, September 30, we went to our Life Group to watch the week's lesson from The Truth Project and discuss it with the others in our Life Group. We eat before/during the video presentation, and this week Rebecca, Ethan, and I provided the food along with the Malcolms.

Rebecca prepared some waffle mix and cut up some fruit before we left. We brought our new Cooks Belgian Waffle iron we recently purchased from JCPEnney's with us so we could cook waffles, and Jackie cooked a breakfast casserole.

The Life Group surprised me with a candle, powdered donut, and sang me "Happy Birthday".

The week's study was, Anthropology: Who is Man?.

Friday night, Rebecca, Ethan, and I went to our friends' house, the McMillons, and had dinner and our marriage Bible study. Rebecca surprised me with a cake, gift, and balloon. After eating dinner and the cake, we discussed chapter four out of Sacred Marriage.

Chapter Four is titled, "Holy Honor: Marriage Teaches Us to Respect Others".

In Life Group, a lot of the video discussed how if there isn't a God, how do people determine what evil is and also showed the problems with things taught in schools, like Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

In the marriage Bible study, we discussed a chapter on respect/honor. I think it's easy for me to think I should be GIVEN respect, but it's difficult sometimes for me to remember I need to GIVE respect. I enjoyed how the book showed in the scriptures that we are commanded to respect others. It was a refreshing look at the subject of honor/respect.

Sacred Marriage

Over the period of the last two years, we've had the privilege of reading and going through several marriage books and studies with some of our friends.

I(Scott) would say the purpose we are doing these studies, isn't because our marriage is struggling, but because we want to keep our marriage on the right track with Biblical insight. Reading different authors' opinions on the topic of marriage, with a Biblical backing, is a way we have found to help us in that area.

Some of the books and studies we've been through are:

The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman

Two Becoming One by Don and Sally Meredith

Cinderella Meets the Caveman by David E. Clarke

The Book of Hosea (from the Old Testament in the Bible)

Each book or study has had things we agree with, and things we disagree with, but we've enjoyed reading them and discussing them together and taking them as an opportunity to work on our marriage together.

Right now, Rebecca and I are having the privilege to read through the book, Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas, with some of our friends. We are reading one to two chapters each week for discussion, and so far we have read and discussed the first three chapters of the book. Sacred Marriage has become my favorite marriage book, even though we are only a few chapters into it right now.

Have you read any marriage book(s) or been to any seminar(s) that encouraged you on where to keep the focus of your marriage? If so, we would love to know what those have been. If you have any questions about any of the books/studies we've been through, feel free to ask us about them and we'll gladly give our opinions on them.