I made this video message this afternoon to say few things about marriage counseling.
For those of you who can’t understand Amharic, I’m hoping that this video will be captioned in English soon. Please bear with us. But for today, the main message of the video is: Let’s put counseling in its rightful place in order to get the full benefit of it. ///
Big houses, big wedding parties, new cars, brand clothing, getting married, having a wonderful sex with the person we are deeply in love with, having kids, etc, all these things will ultimately let us down.
Praise God! It is always good to be back to Maryland. I had a wonderful time in Toronto, Canada.
First, I wanna say, “Happy Birthday” to my lovely little one, Biruk Banko, my youngest son, who is celebrating his 14th birthday today. Happy birthday my handsome son!
Praying to Ethiopia and all the families and friends of Ethiopians who lost their lives.
Oh, Lord, remember Ethiopia as You remembered Sara! I lift my people, all Ethiopians, to you in prayer! Have mercy on us for the sake of our fathers and mothers who faithfully sought you and are seeking You even now; above all, have mercy on us all for the sake of Your Son, our only Hope, Jesus Christ. ///
A4P Guest: I’m 26 years old and my boyfriend is 29. We both go to the same church and we are active in our church. My boyfriend teaches in the young adult’s ministry and I am one of the worship leaders in the adult’s congregation. My boyfriend and I don’t really believe that God is against our pleasure. If God is the One who has given us our desires, we believe that there is no way for Him to be against it. So we both have mutual understanding in this area and we have freedom to express our love to one another whenever we want to. We watch some videos to help us do that too. We are now getting married in March of 2017 and I was wondering if you can give us some premarital counseling so we know about marriage before we decide to find ourselves in it. Continue reading “We have freedom to express our love”→
We all have that season of life where we feel like hopeless and helpless. The sin that is crouching at our door seems more powerful than the Word we have in our hearts.
We can’t afford to ignore this issue just because it makes some people feel uncomfortable, can we? No, we can’t. And I believe, this issue matters more for those who are yet in the process of finding their lifelong partner than the people who already are married.
Let me first say this: As far as I know, there is no “age-difference” topic in the Bible. So, this is a simple answer for anyone who may ask for a Bible reference for the points I’m about to make. Some people argue, “If the Bible ignores this issue, we don’t need to talk about it.” And some say, “What matters the most is how much the couple loves each other.” Hmm! I better leave these lines of reasoning right here and move on to my point, not because I don’t want to deal with them but I may easily get sidetracked from the point I wanna make today trying to address them.
