I have studied the institution of marriage for all of my ministry life. Not until the recent Supreme Court Decisions (United States v. Windsor [2013] and Obergefell v. Hodges [2015]) have I needed to define the term and give its origins. We are in new and dangerous waters regarding marriage and the family, and our understandings have to become a bit more precise than ever before. We need to ask the question (and then answer it carefully), “What is marriage, really?” The tradi

Robert’s Ramblings for April 26, 2015 On my way to a sermon about men loving their wives (Colossians 3:19), I came across the story of David and Michal in 2nd Samuel 6. Needless to say, sermon preparation is replete with rabbit trails that have you wandering about without direction, red herrings that lead you off topic, and more-interesting topics than the one assigned by the passage. After nearly forty years of doing this, I just consider it the price I must pay for being Th