Sermons About Desires
Fighting Fair
Disagreements are going to occur. And having conflict doesn’t mean you have an unhealthy marriage. The fact is that if you never have any conflict or disagreements, then the marriage isn’t healthy because one partner has cowered to the BIG ME in MarriagE. Just as we have mentioned that marriage is a covenant and not a contract, marriage is also not a competition to she who can win the most arguments. Conflict can bring understanding, but only if you fight fair. Today we’re going to learn that how you argue—especially how you end an argument—can determine the long-term success or failure of your marriage.
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Cares
We have been talking about marriage for the past 2 weeks in our new sermon series entitled Summer Lovin’. We have learned that as long as you continue to place expectations on your spouse you have a debt/debtor relationship that will crowd out love and intimacy. In order to experience marriage as God designed it you must transform your expectations back to desire. But then what? You're still left with all these unfulfilled hopes, dreams, and needs. We must learn to look to God as the ultimate satisfier of our desires, not our spouse. We must develop the habit of casting our cares on Him.
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I.O.U.
Expectations in marriage create a debt/debtor relationship that resembles more of a contract between two parties than a covenant between two people. The result of this is that your spouse feels like they never measure up and they are never good enough. Your marriage becomes devoid of love and joy. So what are you to do? You can't deny your expectations-after all, they started out as God-given desires. Instead you must learn to transform your expectations back into desires. You must get to a place where you decide that your spouse doesn't owe you anything and that you owe them everything.
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The ME in MarriagE
Marriage. Everybody's is different. Every marriage contains a unique blend of personalities, a unique history, a unique set of circumstances, a unique set of problems, and a unique set of joys. Despite the fact that every marriage is different, there are certain aspects of marriage that affect us all in the same way. There are some universal constants wired into us as people and into the nature of relationships. One of these universals is the power of expectations. As we'll see today, understanding how expectations work will have a huge effect on the relationship between you and your spouse
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Murder in the Church
Sadly churches are often filled with conflict. These conflicts flow out of worldly wisdom and unrestrained desires. But God's grace is more than sufficient to restore relationships among those who humble themselves.
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The Transformation Series: Where is God Taking You?
Do we have what we need to live godly lives? How can our knowledge of eternity help us live presently? Why are people often spiritually ineffective? What is God’s goal for us? In these next few months we are going to be taking a look at how the gospel changes people, and what are the obstacles for transformation in our lives.
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The deep desires of our heart
I must admit that I have never seen the TV show 'Desperate Housewives', and from what I've read about it, I don't think I ever want to. Anyway I don't need to, because there is a better version here in the Bible. Here in our text we have two desperate housewives: Leah and Rachel. One is desperate for love, the other is desperate for children.
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