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The Point of Marriage

What's the Point of Marriage? Part 5: To Meet Basic Human Needs

January 12, 2010

Marriage has all kinds of romantic and spiritual functions. I’ve tried to explore them in my previous four posts. But it also has some practical functions. The practical ones are the ones I’m focusing on today. Ultimately, if nothing else, I believe God invented marriage to take care of some essential human needs. Basically, I [...]

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What is the Point of Marriage? Part 4: To Teach Us What it Means to be Human

January 7, 2010

If you’ve been sticking with me for the last week or so, I’ve been exploring the purposes of marriage. So far, I’ve explained that I think they are (a) not to achieve happiness; (b) to grow us up; and (c) to teach us about God.  Another purpose of marriage, I believe, is (d) to teach [...]

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What is the Point of Marriage? Part 3: To Teach Us About God

January 5, 2010

Marriage teaches us about God by revealings aspects of his nature.

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What is the Point of Marriage? Part 2: To Grow Us Up

December 31, 2009

As I mentioned in my last post, Corey Allan of Simple Marriage argues that the purpose of marriage is to make us more grown up. It is not a tool designed to make us happy, but rather to make us more refined, more emotionally mature. I couldn’t agree more. But what exactly does maturity look [...]

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What is the Point of Marriage? Part 1: Not Happiness

December 29, 2009

I ask the question, “What is the point of marriage?” and I explore one of the things is not the point of marriage. The purpose of marriage is not to make us happy.

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