Pittsburgh Marraige Conference

Speakers for Pittsburgh Marriage Conference

The primary speaker for the marriage conference will be Bruce Ware with his wife Jodi also contributing and leading a session for the women on Saturday afternoon.

Dr. Bruce A. Ware

Dr. Ware is a highly esteemed theologian and author in the evangelical world. He came to Southern Seminary from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School where he served as Associate Professor and Chairman of the Department of Biblical and Systematic Theology. Prior to this, he taught at Western Conservative Baptist Seminary and at Bethel Theological Seminary. Dr. Ware has written numerous journal articles, book chapters, and book review

Ware received M.Div. and Th.M. degrees from Western Conservative Baptist Seminary, a M.A. from University of Washington, and his Ph.D. from Fuller Theological Seminary.

Some Books written by Bruce Ware:

Big Truths for Young Hearts: Teaching and Learning the Greatness of God (Crossway, 2009)
Father, Son, & Holy Spirit: Relationships, Roles, and Relevance (Crossway, 2005)
God's Greater Glory: The Exalted God of Scripture and the Christian Faith (Crossway, 2004)
Their God Is Too Small (Crossway, 2003)
God's Lesser Glory: The Diminished God of Open Theism (Crossway, 2001)
Still Sovereign,ed. with Thomas Schreiner, (Baker, 2000), was originally sold as The Grace of God and the Bondage of the Will

"But at the beginning of creation God 'made them male and female.'For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.'So they are no longer two, but one. Therefore what God has joined together, let man not separate."
-Mark 10:6-9

Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. After all, no one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church— for we are members of his body. "For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh." This is a profound mystery—but I am talking about Christ and the church. However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.
-Ephesians 5:22-33