Sermons About I.o.u.
Who Wrote the Book of Love?
Love. Something that brings us such a wide spectrum of feelings and emotions. Love can be a positive or a negative experience. Love can bring us to feelings of heavenly bliss or utter despair. Why is love so hard to figure out? What does tru love really even look like? This week we complete our Summer Lovin’ series with a look at Who Wrote the Book of Love!
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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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