I love writing fiction, but my heart is focused on the study of God, His Word, and how we should live in reaction to God. I try to let this shine through all my writing, but perhaps it shines the clearest here.
What are you Doing? A conversation about dating and courtship. There are thousands of Godly young people of both genders who want to get married, are ready to get married, and should be married… indeed they should have been married long ago… who are not married. Their church, their friends, and their families have all prepared them for marriage, for early marriage, for early, fruitful marriage… and they are not married. There is no persecution, no law, no physical infirmities preventing them from being married… but they are not married. This is not a ‘panic’, it is a crisis. Worse, we have many of the very best and brightest of our Christian young people, the best taught, from the finest families, and they are already well past the flower of their age; yet they are not married. This is beyond a crisis, it is a catastrophe. Scripture provides clear answers to this crisis, clear solutions for this catastrophe: solutions we have ignored because they run counter to everything our culture has taught us. It is time we began to take every thought captive to Christ, and throw off the chains of bondage to this world. It is time we ‘let them marry’. We have prepared this document, and our other work on this subject, after long thought, careful study, much prayer, and copious discussion. We covet your feedback. VonFrom a review on Lulu: [What are you Doing?] addresses the confusion regarding Christian Courtship. In a Socratic style dialog, problems are accurately diagnosed and solutions boldly proposed. Many footnotes to modern courtship literature and various scripture passages are supplied. Some readers will judge the offered solution - betrothal - as archaic and unworkable in modern society. But those who have seriously pondered the marriage crisis should welcome a fresh approach. ... This book moves the courtship/marriage discussion in a more biblical direction. It should encourage families to share a common vision between generations - a vision that motivates early marriages and sustains those new marriages within a biblical church community and extended family context.  Affirming the Sufficiency of Scripture over the path to marriage. Scripture, which is sufficient for every good work, is sufficient for this good work: the process of marrying our young women to our young men. In What are you Doing? we take a brief, fictional, look at the path to marriage. In the Covenant of Betrothal we dive much deeper: examining every single Biblical marriage, and all of the laws and teachings that can and should inform our view of the marriage path. The result is our conclusion that our marriages should reflect, and reflect accurately, the marriage of Christ and the Biblical examples. We would like to call the church back to what we are calling 'The Covenant of Betrothal'. As with all of our books, we covet your feedback. Von |
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Von's BooksVon started writing ten years ago, and loves sharing his writing with others. You will find a variety of writing here, but mostly Christian Science Fiction and Fantasy for young adults.
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