Marriage is a Gift, Not a Right

In my wife at home I have a lovelier adornment, one that God has given me and adorned with His word beyond the others, even though she may not have a beautiful body or may have other failings. Though I may look over all the women in the world, I cannot find any about...

The How and The Why

Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must...
Sermon Prep | Marriage and the Kingdom

Sermon Prep | Marriage and the Kingdom

MATTHEW 19.1-12 Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh V. 5 After a time of teaching, Jesus moves away from the crowds at Galilee … so the crowds follow him. Among the crowd are the Pharisees...
Sermon Prep | Marriage and the Kingdom

Sermon Prep | Forgiveness

MATTHEW 18.15-35 So also my heavenly Father will do to every one of you, if you do not forgive your brother from your heart. V. 35 Even though we know it is something that God has called us to do, forgiveness is hard. In this passage Jesus doesn’t tell us to ignore it...
Sermon Prep | Marriage and the Kingdom

Sermon Prep | Faith

MATTHEW 17.14-18.14 [Merges Faith and Value — Weeks 10&11 Sermon Preps from Matthew Booklet 3] He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here...