A man married fifty years once told Stephen Davey that after all that time, he and his wife still have almost nothing in common except the day they got married. Davey uses that bit of honesty to introduce one of the harder passages in Luke's Gospel, where the Pharisees mock Jesus over money and He responds by tightening, not loosening, God's standard for marriage. Davey traces the Old Testament debate over divorce, Jesus' exception for sexual immorality, and Paul's later teaching on abandonment in 1 Corinthians 7, building the case that Scripture permits divorce in certain situations without ever requiring it. He's especially direct about abuse, insisting no spouse should be told to endure it the way a missionary endures persecution. It's a careful, compassionate look at where grace and truth meet in marriage's hardest moments.
A Case for Divorce and Remarriage
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