About
Ordinary Brother is a neighbor and a friend with a calling to restore the sickened Body of Messiah. He has worked as an English teacher, ministry assistant, street performer, travel writer and manual laborer. He lived and worked outside his country for twelve years, which is where he came to faith and began sharing the Gospel. He now resides in southwestern Pennsylvania with his wife and three children.
About My Book
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Here is a short description of Get Married and Save the World from the back cover:
Christians today are intimidated by marriage. They put it off for decades. They put off having children. At best they view staying married for life as an ideal, and see marriage more as a temporary contract that can end because of sin or dissatisfaction. To many it sounds like a long, pathetic story about pain. Beyond that, abandonment of the family is at the core of the instability of Christian civilization and its current replacement by Muslim populations.
In Get Married and Save the World, your ordinary brother confronts this situation head on. He shares the great truths of marriage as revealed in the Holy Bible, and how we can accomplish them through faith and obedience to God. He explains how each pillar within marriage blesses the community with life and peace and points to the Salvation in Jesus Christ. It is indeed the foundation for a new society. The book’s message is interwoven with abundant practical advice, storytelling and theology. Marriage is joy, healing and life, if we walk in God’s way.
Christians today are intimidated by marriage. They put it off for decades. They put off having children. At best they view staying married for life as an ideal, and see marriage more as a temporary contract that can end because of sin or dissatisfaction. To many it sounds like a long, pathetic story about pain. Beyond that, abandonment of the family is at the core of the instability of Christian civilization and its current replacement by Muslim populations.
In Get Married and Save the World, your ordinary brother confronts this situation head on. He shares the great truths of marriage as revealed in the Holy Bible, and how we can accomplish them through faith and obedience to God. He explains how each pillar within marriage blesses the community with life and peace and points to the Salvation in Jesus Christ. It is indeed the foundation for a new society. The book’s message is interwoven with abundant practical advice, storytelling and theology. Marriage is joy, healing and life, if we walk in God’s way.
What does this marriage book cover?
The main chapters of the book include six main elements of Christian marriage:
Marital headship
Submission
Homemaking
The lifelong covenant
The vessel for children
Free love
There is also a section on marriage preparation and one on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. More than any marriage manual though, it is a call to sacrifice, to live a set-apart lifestyle, to run the home as a sacred community and to restore the world through our faith.
Marital headship
Submission
Homemaking
The lifelong covenant
The vessel for children
Free love
There is also a section on marriage preparation and one on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. More than any marriage manual though, it is a call to sacrifice, to live a set-apart lifestyle, to run the home as a sacred community and to restore the world through our faith.
These are a few pictures of the godly wife and children God has blessed me with. At the top of my resume for writing this book, are the blessings and joy that come from walking in the Lord's way in our family. No seminary degree necessary. The average person can be fruitful in the home through living out God's word. I could hit you with hundreds of travel pics too, but that might be overkill.
Why I write this Book (from the introduction)
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I am writing this book so the Christian today can have a simple presentation of what marriage is according to the Word of God, as well as what the family must be. Normally, it would seem redundant to write such a book, but when I think that the simple Christian will be taught by liberals, apostates and often unbelievers, that they will absorb much of their value system from them, I believe it is urgent to give a simple presentation of the main aspects of Christian marriage. I want the truth to be out there.
The spark of inspiration for this book, really the fire that got me started, was a young man I knew who made a girl with child outside of marriage. I encouraged this young man to marry her, and take care of the mother and child for life. He sounded like he received the idea well. Yet I know he can be subject to many failings as a human being, and is subject to hearing very ungodly advice from both young and old around him. So I suppose I imagine myself speaking to this young man as I write this book. He may have started the union of man and woman in the sinful way, but there is nothing stopping him from continuing instead in righteousness, and that’s what we all need on the earth – righteous men. We need more righteous men. In my heart I write this book for him.
The spark of inspiration for this book, really the fire that got me started, was a young man I knew who made a girl with child outside of marriage. I encouraged this young man to marry her, and take care of the mother and child for life. He sounded like he received the idea well. Yet I know he can be subject to many failings as a human being, and is subject to hearing very ungodly advice from both young and old around him. So I suppose I imagine myself speaking to this young man as I write this book. He may have started the union of man and woman in the sinful way, but there is nothing stopping him from continuing instead in righteousness, and that’s what we all need on the earth – righteous men. We need more righteous men. In my heart I write this book for him.