Marriage, Sexuality & Family
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Does the Bible Allow Divorce and Remarriage?
God hates divorce and designed marriage to be permanent, but Scripture recognizes real grounds—unrepentant adultery and desertion—that release the innocent party. And divorce, however painful, is never the unforgivable sin; Christ's cross covers it too.
Read it →How Should Christian Parents Raise Their Children?
Teach the faith woven into ordinary life—bedtime prayers, Scripture read together, church attended as a family—starting from the font where their Christian life began. Your child's salvation doesn't finally rest on your performance; parent from grace, not fear.
Read it →Is It Okay to Be Single?
Not just okay—a genuine, honorable calling Jesus and Paul both lived. Your identity rests on being a baptized child of God, not on marital status, and the single life can be whole and fruitful in its own right.
Read it →Is Sex Before Marriage Wrong?
Sex is God's good gift, given a home in marriage where it seals a covenant already made—which is why Scripture reserves it there and calls anything outside it sin. But sexual sin is no more beyond forgiveness than any other; Christ's blood covers it fully.
Read it →What Does the Bible Say About Gender Identity?
Scripture's answer begins with creation: God made us male and female, body and soul together, and the body is his good gift rather than raw material for self-definition. That truth is held together with real compassion for real suffering—and with an identity given, not constructed: you are baptized.
Read it →What Does the Bible Say About Homosexuality?
Scripture's teaching begins at creation, not with a list of prohibitions: God designed sexual union for the marriage of man and woman, and reserves it there. That standard convicts all of us in different ways—and the same passage that names the sin names the washing.
Read it →What Does the Bible Say About Marriage?
A creation gift, not a human invention—the lifelong one-flesh union of a man and woman, grounded before the fall. Lutherans don't count it a sacrament (it doesn't deliver forgiveness), but it's still a living picture of Christ and his Church.
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