Last night was the first session from Dr. Art Azurdia on “God, the Gospel, and Your Marriage,” and I can honestly say that listening to him was like drinking from a firehose. Here are a few ideas and quotes:

• “The Bible is not a magic book. We are in all was completely dependent on the illumination of the Holy Spirit.”
• “The dignity of marriage is grounded in the fact that marriage is the holy creation of sovereign God.” He went on the explain that such a grounding removes any authority man thinks he has over marriage, and any right to change it to fit his purposes or dissolve it to accomplish his desires or changed feelings.
• “We must begin with God Himself. Your marriage is not your own. It belongs to God.”
• “Eve’s worth is based in the fact that she is an image-bearer of God, not that she came from man.”
• “Marriage is not the creation of man, so man has no authority to do with it as he wills.

His text for the evening was Genesis 2:15-25, and he consistently and constantly referenced back to this text.

We’re looking forward to three more sessions today with Dr. Azurdia. In another post I will see if I can provide the words to one of the songs we sang; it is easily one of the most powerful songs about Christ’s work on the cross that I have ever sung or heard.