{"id":4569,"date":"2013-07-15T19:43:17","date_gmt":"2013-07-15T19:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/?p=4569"},"modified":"2013-07-15T19:43:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-15T19:43:17","slug":"marriage-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/15\/marriage-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Marriage Matters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of talk in the press recently about marriage. I wanted to take a few moments to remind you of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creeds.net\/Westminster\/c24.htm\" target=\"_blank\">our position statement on marriage and divorce<\/a>\u00a0and make you aware of some helpful resources for thinking about faithfulness to Christ in our particular moment:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/tgc\/2013\/06\/26\/9-things-you-should-know-about-the-supreme-courts-same-sex-marriage-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\">9 Things Your Should Know About the Supreme Court&#8217;s Same-Sex Marriage Cases, by Joe Carter<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnabaspiper.com\/2013\/03\/tired-of-gay-marriage-debate.html\" target=\"_blank\">Tired of the Gay Marriage Debate?<\/a> by Barnabas Piper<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/trevinwax\/2013\/06\/26\/why-gay-marriage-is-good-and-bad-for-the-church\/\" target=\"_blank\">Why Gay Marriage is Good (and Bad) for the Church by Trevin Wax<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/edstetzer\/2013\/june\/prop-8-doma-and-christian-response.html\" target=\"_blank\">A blog post<\/a> by Ed Stetzer<\/p>\n<p>Helpful resources for seeking the biblical vision for marriage by the power of the Spirit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tgc-audio.s3.amazonaws.com\/TGCW12\/Workshops\/Marriage%20in%20Gospel%20Focus.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Gospel-focused Marriage<\/a>, audio by Tim &amp; Kathy Keller<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/What-Expect-Paperback-Edition-Redesign\/dp\/1433530783\" target=\"_blank\">What Did You Expect?<\/a> book by Paul Tripp<\/p>\n<p>Excellent resource on learning discernment:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ransomfellowship.org\/publications\/ebook_babylonseries_v1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Being in the world but not of it<\/a> by Denis Haack<\/p>\n<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0;float:none;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/15\/marriage-matters\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"25\" show_faces=\"true\" font=\"arial\" action=\"recommend\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lots of talk in the press recently about marriage. I wanted to take a few moments to remind you of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creeds.net\/Westminster\/c24.htm\" target=\"_blank\">our position statement on marriage and divorce<\/a>\u00a0and make you aware of some helpful resources for thinking about faithfulness to Christ in our particular moment:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thegospelcoalition.org\/blogs\/tgc\/2013\/06\/26\/9-things-you-should-know-about-the-supreme-courts-same-sex-marriage-cases\/\" target=\"_blank\">9 Things Your Should Know About the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-pastor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FrAa-1bH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4571,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4569\/revisions\/4571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/christcommunitychurch.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}