Ephesians 5:22-25 – The Nexus

I’ve got another blast from the past for you today. This one is the next part of the marriage series we pulled back out of the mothballs last week. We live in a culture that highly values equality and fairness. That commitment plays itself out in just about every area of our lives including our marriages. Marriages are supposed to be equal relationships of equal partners, right? Well, it depends on what you mean by equal. In this message we are going to do a deep dive into equality, talk about the kind of equality that does and doesn’t exist in marriage, and set our sights on something entirely higher than that (and far more consistent with the teachings of the apostles) as the goal we should be striving for together. Let’s take a look.

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In this third part of our series, Marriage Myths, we take a look at the cultural myth that the perfect marriage is one in which the husband and wife are perfectly equal in every way. While there is no difference in their value to the relationship, the husband and wife are not the same, nor were they designed to be. Marriage isn’t about equality at all, as it turns out. To see what it will do, keep reading…

The “All’s Fair” Dilemma

I brought a little something for show-and-tell this morning. Who knows what this is? Good. It’s a mousetrap. Okay, next question: Who knows what it’s for? Close: It’s for breaking the spine or neck of a furry little woodland creature that is only a fraction of our size and was just out for an evening snack. Its wife and 5,000 kids are probably going to starve to death now. (Anybody feel guilty yet?) Read the rest…

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Whole and Fair Aren’t the Same

The “All’s Fair” Dilemma