One of the most important lessons that being in relationships can teach us is how to serve another, how to love. It can, or should, remove us from self-centeredness and become more others focused. In a way it can move us to become more “Christlike”.

“For the son of man did not come to be served but to serve.” (Matthew 26:28)

Listen to this podcast as I discuss in more detail the idea of grace in marriage and how all of this plays in raising kids and affects their future relationships.

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In this episode we discuss the idea that the devil does still prowl around and to not be aware of this only makes it much easier for us to lose the "battle".

Men....Do you realize the battle you are in? Do you have a peace mixed with passion? Does your heart stir in good ways? Do you feel connected to God? Do you feel connected to your spouse? Do you joke, laugh, and have true innocent fun?

Too often our soul and heart is captive.

How we give and receive love will determine the quality of our life and the relationships in it. . . . . Do you agree?

**First episode back in awhile so please forgive any non-audio "smoothness" and/or transitions :)

Are you guilty of the Sin of Self-Protection? For my whole life I was unaware that I was and often am still guilty of this sin in my relationships.  "If the core business of life is to love each other as God loves us, then a priority effort to play it safe interferes with the purpose of loving.  We were designed to love, and when we do, something good develops inside.  We feel clean, rich, whole.  Even better, we become less concerned with how we feel and more concerned with the lives of others.  But when a commitment to self-protection governs what we say, how we say it, and to whom then a nagging discomfort creeps through our soul that demands to be soothed." (Inside Out-Larry Crabb)

In this episode we discuss this challenging statement. . ."Until we acknowledge painful disappointment in our circumstances and relationships (particularly the latter), we will not pursue Christ with the passion of deep thirst.  Or, to put it more simply, we rarely learn to meaningfully depend on God when our life is uncomfortable." (Inside Out - Larry Crabb)

To avoid not feeling what needs to be felt, the pain, the ache, the heartache, the sin, we deprive ourselves of our desperate need for the gospel of Christ, which provides amazing hope, forgiveness, and a love that is unfathomable.  Instead of "running to" things of this world to "numb out" pain there is a better place to run to and that is in the arms of our Heavenly Father.

In this episode we discuss the idea of our pursuit to relieve pain in our life and how "feeling better" has become more important than finding God.