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Courtship or Dating, Part 2: Loving and Honoring Authority Pastor Phil Layton, Gold Country Baptist Church, Jan. 10, 2010 (www.goldcountrybaptist.org ) Introduction: - God’s Word is sufficient for all of life and godliness (2 Tim. 3:16-17, Psalm 19, 119). It may not use some of the modern terms we use,…

Courtship or Dating, Part 3: Parental Protection from the Dating Game (Ruth 2-3) Preached by Pastor Phil Layton at Gold Country Baptist Church on January 24, 2010 www.goldcountrybaptist.org We’ve been studying the book of Ruth on Sunday evenings and taking time to look at its principles in light of how…

Courtship or Dating, Part 4: Purpose and Purity in Relationships Pastor Phil Layton, Gold Country Baptist Church, Jan. 31, 2010 (www.goldcountrybaptist.org ) Introductory Observations of what God blessed in Ruth and Boaz’s relationship: 1. Parental honor (Ruth 3:5-6, 17; God blesses Ruth’s honoring of…

Courtship or Dating or Doing “the Ruth Method”? (Ruth 2-3) Please turn in God’s Word to the book of Ruth, and in our ongoing verse-by-verse study through this book we come to a very timeless and timely question: how do a man and woman go from meeting to marriage? Should they date, or court, or “dort”…

INTRODUCTION We have considered courtship and marriage as providing a true biblical alternative to sexual sin. We have also addressed the importance of wisdom in relationships. No technique can substitute for love and kindness. But now we do come to some particular questions. As Christians we take the…

INTRODUCTION Biblical courtship is not a technique. It is not a step-by-step process for garnering sure-fire results every time. Rather, biblical courtship is an area of our lives where, once again, we are called to walk in wisdom. THE TEXT Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit…

INTRODUCTION Biblical courtship is a difficult issue to address because it is connected to so many other aspects of our lives. One of the things we must do is abandon pious sentimentalism in our thinking. THE TEXTS 3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:…

Song of Songs 4-8 Yahweh-ignited love grows progressively stronger in intimacy and delight! Before Scripture reading: This morning we continue our series on the Song of Songs. Before I continue with a more detailed explanation of the second part of the book, I would like to spend some time this morning…

Song of Solomon 1v1-7 Delighting In Love Introduction Come to a book that is not often preached on but it ought to be because of the truth it reveals. We see here what true marriage should be like. “God has placed this Song in the Canon in order to teach us the purity and sanctity of that estate of marriage…