“And you know, I just told her, ‘don’t date a boy you would not be willing to marry.’” We were in Portland, Texas at the home of my mother’s aunt and uncle, Addie and Norman. Their daughter Kay, probably a senior in high school at the time, was out on a date when we droveContinue reading “Addie Presley Gives Dating Advice. Deuteronomy 7.”
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Be Wise! WHEN YOU CHOOSE YOUR SPOUSE, YOU CHOOSE YOUR FUTURE. Ezra 10:2.
While living in exile, many of Israel’s men married the women of Babylon. They had been told not to marry foreign (non-Jewish) women, but they did not obey. Ezra led the people in prayers of repentance—and Ezra took this sin personally. He was innocent—that is, Ezra did not marry outside the faith. But because soContinue reading “Be Wise! WHEN YOU CHOOSE YOUR SPOUSE, YOU CHOOSE YOUR FUTURE. Ezra 10:2.”
FOREIGN WIVES. Ezra 9-10; 2 Corinthians 6:14.
How does God feel about dating or marriage outside your own race? Can white people and black people get married? Does it make any difference? God told the Hebrews NEVER to inter-marry with the “Canaanites, Hittites, Perizzites, Jebusites, … Egyptians, and Amorites.” Ezra 9:1. When Solomon took foreign wives, it was a disaster. The BibleContinue reading “FOREIGN WIVES. Ezra 9-10; 2 Corinthians 6:14.”
Unequally Yoked.
Now there’s an archaic phrase. You’ve no doubt heard the analogy to two unmatched beasts of burden. For example, a horse and an ox cannot work together under the same yoke. They are unequal in height and gait, and cannot work together. God warns His children to “be not unequally yoked with unbelievers” 2 CorinthiansContinue reading “Unequally Yoked.”
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