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Divorce and remarriage...call it adultery.

Sometimes Jesus calls it "Adultery with an asterisk."

Adultery****

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I knew a preacher who wrote a book titled "When Divorce Strikes", by Maurice Berquist. It is likely out of print but you might be able to locate a copy by contacting the publishing arm of the Church of God (anderson, IN). He passed away several years ago while on a preaching trip to India. Whilke not a thick book, it gives a real soecific analysis of divorce in the Bible and in the context of the time it was written.

He and my former senior pastor, Gerald Marvel wrote a most wonderful book of the topic of preaching titled "A Handful of Stars". BTW Gerald Marvels three children are pastors. One of them was divorced by his wife while he was a youth pastor. He offered to resign his position, the church wouldn't let him resign; he filled in as senior pastor who took another church; and, was later named the senior pastor of the same church which is one of the most dynamic growing Bible based churches in the Bellingham, WA area.