This week, as a special treat, because all I can wrap my mind around is flowers and table cloths and shoes and how many communion hymns we’ll need, I thought it would be fun to do a mini-series on Great Marriages of the Bible. The number of actually good and functional marriages in Holy Scripture might be something like three. Priscilla and Aquilla seem cool. And I quite like Naaman and his wife and their Israelite slave girl. And, let me see… Ruth and Boaz had a nice love story, but we don’t know how they got along through the long winter evenings with Grandma Naomi and Baby Obed. Maybe it was super cozy, but the Bible doesn’t let us peek through the curtain on their domestic arrangements.
The way you probably know a good marriage is that it doesn’t get mentioned by any Biblical writer.
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