Cover courtesy of Crossway

This Momentary Marriage

A Parable of Permanence

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Notes: Written for Piper's fortieth wedding anniversary, and dedicated to his wife Noel. This ISBN's registrant prefix (978-0-97995) is not one of Crossway's; every retailer consulted nonetheless gives Crossway, 2009, as the publisher, and Crossway's own later paperback carries 9781433531118. What the arrangement was behind the 2009 printing is not established here.

1. Staying Married Is Not Mainly about Staying in Love
2. Naked and Not Ashamed
3. God's Showcase of Covenant-Keeping Grace
4. Forgiving and Forbearing
5. Pursuing Conformity to Christ in the Covenant
6. Lionhearted and Lamblike -- The Christian Husband as Head: Foundations of Headship
7. Lionhearted and Lamblike -- The Christian Husband as Head: What Does It Mean to Lead?
8. The Beautiful Faith of Fearless Submission
9. Single in Christ: A Name Better Than Sons and Daughters
10. Singleness, Marriage, and the Christian Virtue of Hospitality
11. Faith and Sex in Marriage
12. Marriage Is Meant for Making Children... Disciples of Jesus: How Absolute Is the Duty to Procreate?
13. Marriage Is Meant for Making Children... Disciples of Jesus: The Conquest of Anger in Father and Child
14. What God Has Joined Together, Let Not Man Separate: The Gospel and the Radical New Obedience
15. What God Has Joined Together, Let Not Man Separate: The Gospel and the Divorced