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Marriage and the Bride of Christ (Part Nine)

Sermon by Martin G. Collins

The marriage relationship and the family structure provide a workshop to learn the intricacies of the God-plane relationship between Christ and the church.


Marriage and the Bride of Christ (Part Six)

Sermon by Martin G. Collins

Husbands must be humble (willing to sacrifice), imitating the behavior of Christ, striving to attain reconciliation and atonement with their wives.


The Bride of Christ

Sermonette by Clyde Finklea

The names of the seven churches of Revelation 2-3 prove equally significant as demonstrating the traits or characteristics of the wise virgins.


Marriage and the Bride of Christ (Part Two)

Sermon by Martin G. Collins

The husband is charged to exercise love to his wife, actually a more demanding task than submitting, carrying more instructions than the command to submit.


Marriage and the Bride of Christ (Part Eight)

Sermon by Martin G. Collins

The husband is commanded to love his wife as his own body, regarding her as precious and delicate, continually nourishing and protecting her.


Marriage and the Bride of Christ (Part Ten)

Sermon by Martin G. Collins

Many have carried the baggage of the world into God's Church. We need to gain an appreciation of the privileges Christ has bestowed on His Church.


Marriage and the Bride of Christ (Part Seven)

Sermon by Martin G. Collins

Christians must address marriage problems from God's perspective. Stress can cause people to lay aside their values in favor of humanly reasoned solutions.


Parable of the Marriage Feast

Bible Study by Martin G. Collins

Jesus exposes the Jews' rejection of the gospel using the illustration of a king sending invitations to a wedding celebration.


The Marriage of the Lamb

'Prophecy Watch' by Staff

The most important wedding in world history is the Marriage Supper of the Lamb to His bride. Are we getting ready for it?


My Hour Has Not Yet Come

Feast of Tabernacles Sermon by Mark Schindler

Jesus' response to His mother at the wedding—'My hour has not yet come'—was not disrespect but perhaps a challenge to attach real faith with mere knowledge.


The Perfect Husband

Sermon by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Husbands need to imitate God's behavior as reflected through the life of Jesus Christ. Isaiah 54 reveals Yahweh (who became Jesus Christ) as the Husband of Israel.


Prophecy in Song

'Prophecy Watch' by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Far from being just a book about married love, the Song of Songs relates to the present condition of the church of God.


Parable of the Ten Virgins (Part One)

Bible Study by Martin G. Collins

Jesus gave the Parable of the Ten Virgins to encourage His disciples to be watchful and to make preparations for His return and the end of the age.


Parable of the Ten Virgins (Part Two)

Bible Study by Martin G. Collins

The Parable of the Ten Virgins is prophetic concerning the attitude of Christians at the end time. The wise and foolish virgins each have things to teach us.


The Perfect Marriage

Sermon by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Under the best of conditions, marriage takes work to make it succeed. Next to baptism, marriage is the most important decision we could ever make.


Parables and Prophecy

'Prophecy Watch' by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

Aside from being only simple stories, parables can have prophetic implications as well.


Imagining the Garden of Eden (Part Eleven)

Sermon by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

God's selection of Eve as a companion to Adam took into account the need for a helper as a counterpart—like himself, but standing opposite as complementary.


What's Wrong With 'Here Comes the Groom'?

Sermon by Martin G. Collins

Radical feminism has tried to empower one gender by disabling and marginalizing the other gender, creating a pathological, dysfunctional society.


The Two Great Commandments: First Principles

Sermon by Richard T. Ritenbaugh

God made male and female in His image and has determined that the binary metamorphize into unitary in order to accomplish higher Spiritual purposes.