A provocative look at the practice of annulment in the American Catholic Church explains how church marriage courts have allowed thousands of marriages, valid based on Catholic doctrine, to be annulled using specious psychological reasoning to allow divorced Catholics to bypass church teaching and law. UP.
Every effort has been made to keep the text from becoming too academic while at the same time providing the average educated reader with a wealth of original insights into the "mystery" of marriage: in creation and as transformed by Christ.
This book is a personal testimony that reveals Gods plan to restore all things to Himself as stated in the first chapter of Ephesians, that is, the summing up of all things in Christ, things in the heavens and things upon the earth.
Editor H. Wayne House introduces a lively debate on varying Christian views of divorce and remarriage. Contributors include J. Carl Laney, William Heth, Thomas Edgar and Larry Richards.
The United States is home to only 6% of the world's Catholics, Robert Vasoli points out, but it now accounts for 75% of all Church annulments, two-thirds of which are granted on ostensibly psychological grounds.
In What God Hath Joined, Pamela and Terry tell the deeply moving and spiritually probing story of how their love for each other irrevocably changed their lives, their careers, and their most cherished beliefs.
New from Best-Selling Author John Piper From Genesis to Revelation, the providence of God directs the entire course of redemptive history.
What God Has Put Asunder sounds like a misquote of Mark 10:9, the biblical consecration of marriage.
"The 2010 Sidney B. Sperry Symposium seeks to honor and discuss the magisterial teachings contained in the Sermon on the Mount."--Pref.
This resource seeks to help you in just that worthy endeavor.This book contains 31 succinct chapters focusing on 31 particular marriage separators. You can read this book by yourself or with your spouse.
This book is for parents, parents who care deeply about passing on a legacy of faith in Christ, parents who invite their children to "ask Jesus into your heart.