Marriage

Marriage was created to be a place where two people wake up every day trying to thrill each other with selfless, unconditional love, just as Adam and Eve did in the garden. Sin turned that selfless love into a competition of expectations and conditions, but by surrendering our expectations to God and submitting them to our spouse, we can find our way back to what marriage was always meant to be.

A remarkable, loving marriage is possible, but it requires doing things differently than culture, friends, or even our parents modeled. When we are hurt, we get to choose: forget it, forgive it, or fix it — instead of memorializing the offense and building a fence that eventually hides the person we love.

Real marriages are messy and need maintenance, repair, and sometimes real fixing, but fake images and fake fixes never solve anything — only truth from God's Word does. Pastor TJ walks through three proverbs that show how to stop the cycle of complaining, choose better words, and bind a marriage to Christ so it can actually be repaired.

God isn't only interested in saving souls — He wants to save marriages, and that healing starts with a new heart. Jesus teaches that adultery begins long before the act, in a wandering heart, so guarding and directing our hearts toward the people God has given us protects what is beautiful and can restore what is broken.