It all seemed so idyllic. Not everyone gets to fulfil their childhood dream of marrying a Prince, but of course, to live the best of times, you have to endure the worst… With their wedding ceremony finally approaching, Alyssa and Ali’s fairytale romance threatens to hit the rocks. Struck by disagreement on the ceremony, she begins to wonder whether everything is too good to be true, and whether she’s cut out for a life of royalty. After a perilous flight, and a shocking crash landing, they’re forced to come together when their plane is stricken on a remote, and beautifully exotic island! The future royal husband and wife may be out of their comfort zones, but can they come together to survive and thrive? Will they make it to see their wedding day?
This work is a journey into the bridal relationship between Jesus and His church, written by acclaimed author Sula Skiles. Dive in and discover the very love relationship that you were born for.
The great military exploits of Confederate General 'Stonewall' Jackson are studied in military schools the world over. His iron-will and stern self-disciple are legendary. But the real Thomas J.Jackson was also a humble Christian and a loving husband and father. The tender and instructive letters he wrote to his wife Anna are a model of godly leadership and covenantal faithfulness.
Short devotional writings on Christ and the church, His beloved bride. The book begins with looking at the example of the beloved puritan pastor Christopher Love and his wife Mary, their single-eyed devotion to Christ and love for one another in the context of martyrdom. The ensuing devotionals flesh out the question, "If husbands are to love their wives as Christ did the church, how exactly has Christ loved His bride?" And secondly, "What are the duties of the bride of Christ to her heavenly Husband?" The short work is a melding together of thoughts from the Scriptures upon marriage, martyrdom, and missions.
When a man is blackmailed into marrying a woman he does not know, he is surprised to find himself captured by her beauty, and he's determined to convince her of his love. Original.
The bestselling follow-up to Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist. Includes a reader's guide and an excerpt from Pitre's The Case for Jesus. In Jesus the Bridegroom, Brant Pitre once again taps into the wells of Jewish Scripture and tradition, and unlocks the secrets of what is arguably the most well-known symbol of the Christian faith: the cross of Christ. In this thrilling exploration, Pitre shows how the suffering and death of Jesus was far more than a tragic Roman execution. Instead, the Passion of Christ was the fulfillment of ancient Jewish prophecies of a wedding, when the God of the universe would wed himself to humankind in an everlasting nuptial covenant. To be sure, most Christians are familiar with the apostle Paul’s teaching that Christ is the ‘Bridegroom’ and the Church is the ‘Bride’. But what does this really mean? And what would ever possess Paul to compare the death of Christ to the love of a husband for his wife? If you would have been at the Crucifixion, with Jesus hanging there dying, is that how you would have described it? How could a first-century Jew like Paul, who knew how brutal Roman crucifixions were, have ever compared the execution of Jesus to a wedding? And why does he refer to this as the “great mystery” (Ephesians 5:32)? As Pitre shows, the key to unlocking this mystery can be found by going back to Jewish Scripture and tradition and seeing the entire history of salvation, from Mount Sinai to Mount Calvary, as a divine love story between Creator and creature, between God and Israel, between Christ and his bride—a story that comes to its climax on the wood of a Roman cross. In the pages of Jesus the Bridegroom, dozens of familiar passages in the Bible—the Exodus, the Song of Songs, the Wedding at Cana, the Woman at the Well, the Last Supper, the Crucifixion, and even the Second Coming at the End of Time—are suddenly transformed before our eyes. Indeed, when seen in the light of Jewish Scripture and tradition, the life of Christ is nothing less than the greatest love story ever told.
Known as the Song of songs, this book is, perhaps, the most controversial love poem to be found in the Bible. Many believe it too overtly sensual to be considered as Scripture. Sometimes seeming almost erotic, it is anything but that. Rather, it is an allegory, an unfolding of the heart of Jesus Christ-the heavenly bridegroom toward his beloved-the church. The Song of Solomon, far from being sensual and sordid, points to a time beyond time, while unveiling a life to be lived in fullness and holy love-now. Here you will find an awareness of the love of Jesus that will carry you to the heights of joy. In this study, Dr. Ronald Cottle has woven together an exacting interpretation of this amazingly penetrating look into the heart of God. The passion and desire God has for the Beloved Bride of Christ shines through in a most intriguing way.
They call her the Langlinais Bride—though she's seen her husband only one time . . . on their wedding day, twelve years ago. For years naÏve, convent-bred Juliana dreaded being summoned to the side of the man she wed as a child so long ago. Now her husband, Sebastian, Earl of Langlinais, has become ensnared in his villainous brother's wicked plots—and has no choice but to turn to his virgin bride for help. Juliana now finds herself face-to-face with a man so virile and so powerful that she's fascinated by him—just as he asks her to go against everything she holds true. Sebastian never counted on being enchanted by the beauty of this innocent angel he intended to keep as wife in name only—and he dares not reveal to her the secret reason why their love can never be . . .
