By Timothy Keller
ISBN-10: 1101548045
ISBN-13: 9781101548042
“Incredibly wealthy with knowledge and perception that would depart the reader, no matter if unmarried or married, feeling uplifted.” —The Washington Times
Based at the acclaimed sermon sequence through New York Times bestselling writer Timothy Keller, this booklet indicates everyone—Christians, skeptics, singles, longtime married undefined, and people approximately to be engaged—the imaginative and prescient of what marriage could be in response to the Bible.
Modern tradition may have you ever think that everybody has a soul mate; that romance is an important a part of a profitable marriage; that your wife is there that will help you notice your power; that marriage doesn't suggest ceaselessly, yet in basic terms for now; and that beginning over after a divorce is the simplest approach to probably intractable marriage matters. yet those modern day assumptions are unsuitable. Timothy Keller, with insights from Kathy, his spouse of thirty-seven years, indicates marriage to be an excellent dating that also is misunderstood and mysterious. The which means of Marriage deals guideline on how one can have a winning marriage, and is key interpreting for somebody who desires to comprehend God and love extra deeply during this life.
Look out for Timothy Keller's most modern book, God's knowledge for Navigating existence, available from Viking in Fall 2017.
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Disenchantment, the “end of the honeymoon,” is common and has been for centuries. It is normal, even inescapable. But the depth of the disillusionment people experience in our time is something new, as is the speed with which marriages collapse. In our day, something has intensified this natural experience and turned it toxic. It is the illusion that if we find our one true soul mate, everything wrong with us will be healed; but that makes the lover into God, and no human being can live up to that.
But the foundation of it all is the Bible. In the Bible there are three human institutions that stand apart from all others—the family, the church, and the state. There’s nothing in the Bible about how schools should be run, even though they are crucial to a flourishing society. There’s nothing there about business corporations or museums or hospitals. In fact, there are all sorts of great institutions and human enterprises that the Bible doesn’t address or regulate. And so we are free to invent them and operate them in line with the general principles for human life that the Bible gives us.
Meanwhile, Sue’s quietness looked to Jeff like a lack of transparency, and her soft- spoken shyness masked what he now saw to be a domineering personality. The marriage quickly spiraled down and ended in a speedy divorce. Disenchantment, the “end of the honeymoon,” is common and has been for centuries. It is normal, even inescapable. But the depth of the disillusionment people experience in our time is something new, as is the speed with which marriages collapse. In our day, something has intensified this natural experience and turned it toxic.