Friends and Lovers: Cultivating Companionship and Intimacy in Marriage - Softcover

Beeke, Joel R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1936760444 ISBN 13: 9781936760442

Verlag: Cruciform Press, 2012

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Intimate Christian companionship in marriage — the attainable goal.

Friends and Lovers focuses on two key ingredients in a vital marriage: friendship and sexual intimacy. Drawing from the wisdom of the Bible, especially the Book of Proverbs, Joel Beeke shows you how to grow closer to your spouse both emotionally and physically.

Part I (“Friends”), explores the meaning, cultivation, and threats to friendship in marriage.

• Friendship is that personal bond of shared life that brings people together in delightful harmony.
• It is rooted God’s created order of making men and women in His image.
• We broke this harmonious order when our first parents sinned against God, simultaneously turning against each other.
• But Christ is the great peacemaker and friendship-restorer.

Part II (“Lovers”), sets forth several ways in which the gospel energizes married Christians to enjoy sex in holy delight.

• The words gospel, sex, and holy, may not seem to go together. But when it comes to sexual love between husband and wife, they do.
• Rather than splitting our lives into different compartments such as sex and religion, God calls us to respond to Christ’s mercies by offering our whole existence to Him.

Dr. Beeke leads the reader to know, believe, feel, and act based upon God’s Word applied by God’s Spirit.

Friendship and sex with your spouse are incredibly good gifts from God. We should receive them with gratitude, and give them to each other with generosity.

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Dr. Joel R. Beeke serves as President and Professor of Systematic Theology, Church History, and Homiletics at Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary. He has been in the ministry since 1978 and has served as a pastor of his current church since 1986. He is also editor of the Banner of Sovereign Grace Truth, editorial director of Reformation Heritage Books, president of Inheritance Publishers, and vice-president of the Dutch Reformed Translation Society. He has written, co-authored, or edited fifty books and contributed over fifteen hundred articles to Reformed books, journals, periodicals, and encyclopedias. His Ph.D. (1988) from Westminster Theological Seminary is in Reformation and Post-Reformation Theology. He is frequently called upon to lecture at Reformed seminaries and to speak at conferences around the world.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cruciform Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1936760444
• ISBN 13: 9781936760442
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 100
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