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Jul 2024
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Marriage as Ministry Power

Tim Keller | Gospel in Life
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Whether you’re single, married, widowed, or divorced, you can immediately apply Scripture’s teachings about marriage to your life.

According to the Scripture, marriage is a divine invention. It stands apart from other human institutions because it didn’t evolve out of human thinking. And the basic principles for marriage that are laid out in Ephesians 5 are critical to our understanding of what God says marriage is.

We’ll look now at the first of these basic principles: Self-centeredness is the main enemy of any marriage.

This sermon was preached by Dr. Timothy Keller at Redeemer Presbyterian Church on August 18, 1991. Series: Marriage. Scripture: Ephesians 5:22-33.

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