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    Couples Like You and Me
    Couples Like You and Me
    Couples Like You and Me
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    Couples Like You and Me

    By F. Wayne Mac Leod

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    We are all influenced by what we see around us. Our conception of the ideal couple is founded, in part, on what we see in other relationships. In this study we will look at the lives of twelve marriages in the Bible. They are couples like you and me. They faced temptations like you and me. Some of them succeeded in overcoming those temptations. Others fell prey to them.

    The goal of these twelve simple reflections is to encourage you in your own married life. You will see dangers to be avoided and examples to follow. What is important is that you let the Lord guide you through these Biblical illustrations. They are meant for your instruction and encouragement. May this simple study encourage you in your life as a couple.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherF. Wayne Mac Leod
    Release dateMay 28, 2019
    ISBN9780463076033
    Couples Like You and Me
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    F. Wayne Mac Leod

    F. Wayne Mac Leod was born in Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, Canada and received his education at Ontario Bible College, University of Waterloo and Ontario Theological Seminary. He was ordained at Hespeler Baptist Church, Cambridge, Ontario in 1991. He and his wife, Diane served as missionaries with the Africa Evangelical Fellowship (now merged with SIM) on the islands of Mauritius and Reunion in the Indian Ocean from 1985-1993 where he was involved in church development and leadership training. He is presently involved in a writing ministry and is a member of Action International Ministries.

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      Couples Like You and Me - F. Wayne Mac Leod

      Couples Like You and Me

      Lessons from the Lives of Twelve Couples in the Bible

      F. Wayne Mac Leod

      Light To My Path Book Distribution

      Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, CANADA

      Couples Like You and Me

      Copyright © 2019 by F. Wayne Mac Leod

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means without written permission of the author.

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      Scripture quotations marked (NIV) are taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™

      Scripture quotations marked (ESV) are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations marked (NLT) are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright ©1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved.

      Scripture quotations from The Authorized (King James) Version. Rights in the Authorized Version in the United Kingdom are vested in the Crown. Reproduced by permission of the Crown’s patentee, Cambridge University Press

      Contents

      Preface

      1 - Adam and Eve

      2 - Abraham and Sarah

      3 - Lot and his Wife

      4 - Isaac and Rebecca

      5 - Jacob and Leah

      6 - Moses and Zipporah

      7 - David and His Wives

      8 - Solomon and His Wives

      9 - Boaz and Ruth

      10 - Samson and the Woman of Timnah

      11 - The Prophets and Their Wives

      12 - Aquila and Priscilla

      Light To My Path Book Distribution

      Preface

      We are all influenced by what we see around us. Our conception of the ideal couple is founded, in part, on what we see in other relationships. In this study, we will look at the lives of twelve marriages in the Bible. They were couples like you and me. They faced temptations like you and me. Some of them succeeded in overcoming these temptations. Others fell prey to them. The goal of these twelve simple reflections is to encourage you in your own married life. You will see dangers to be avoided and examples to follow. What is important is that you let the Lord guide you through these Biblical illustrations. They are for your instruction and encouragement. May this simple study encourage you in your life as a couple.

      F. Wayne Mac Leod

      Chapter 1 - Adam and Eve:

      The Effects of Sin in the Life of the Couple

      Read Genesis 3.7-19

      The Lord had just created the Garden of Eden. There He placed Adam, the first man, and gave him the responsibility of cultivating the soil. Adam lived in a perfect paradise. The beauty of God’s creation surrounded him. Sickness, suffering and sadness were unknown. He enjoyed complete peace and tranquillity. He had no enemy or worry. He could have lived forever in communion with His Creator in that paradise. One would have thought that in such a situation, the heart of Adam would have overflowed with joy. Deep in his heart, however, he felt a void.

      God knew this and said: it is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him (Genesis 2:18). Although Adam lived in the presence of God in a perfect paradise, God had created him so that he would find true happiness and joy in communion with others of his kind. Adam was not made to live in isolation. Genesis 3 tells us that God created animals from the ground and brought them to man to see what he would name them. Among these animals, however, no suitable helper was found (Genesis 2.20b). There was no doubt that Adam enjoyed these animals. They were company for him and a wonderful gift of God. The problem, however, was that they did not fill the emptiness he felt in his heart. These animals only served to make Adam even more aware of his loneliness.

      To meet this profound need, God caused Adam to fall asleep. As he slept, God took one of his ribs and from it created a woman. When Adam saw her, he knew that this was the helper his heart desired. She was part of him. She had been created from his own body. Adam recognised this connection. He called her woman because he said, this is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh she shall be called ‘woman’ because she was taken out of man (Genesis 2:23). They were created for each other. They would complete each other.

      We can only imagine what those first few months would have been like as Adam and Eve lived

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