We’re going to go with a throwback post today. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about relationships and what it takes to really get them right. As a pastor, I tend to hear about everybody’s junk at some point. It may not be because they tell me about it directly, but I almost always manage to hear about it anyway. I can think of at least three couples who are at various points of struggling in their relationship without really trying. And, wouldn’t you know it, one of the posts that went live today almost ten years ago was a sermon I preached in a series on marriage. Our culture preaches the gospel of soulmates. According to this gospel, there is a person out there who is your soulmate. All you have to do is find them, and everything will be sunshine and rainbows from that point forward. And yet, what if something happens that leaves you thinking the person you thought was yours…isn’t anymore? Does that mean you were wrong this whole time? Nope, it means you’ve been thinking about it wrong the whole time. Let’s talk a walk down the blog’s memory lane today and have a conversation about relationships and marriage that still feels remarkably fresh almost ten years later.
Read the rest…Tag: Soulmate
The “One” Syndrome
This Sunday as we continue our series, Marriage Myths, we started unpacking the first myth: The soulmate myth. Our culture says that when we find our soulmate, everything about our life will be on the up and up from there on out. The truth is something entirely different than that…and a lot better. Keep reading (or listening) to find out what this is.
The “One” Syndrome
So, my boys were watching the movie Frozen again the other night. And I’ll admit it: I sat there and watched a lot of it with them. After all, I set it to record…for them of course. Okay, I’ll go ahead and admit it: Frozen is a good movie. It’s actually pretty unique as far as Disney princess movies go. Now, at one level it’s just like all the rest. But at another level it’s very different. It does something no other Disney movie I can think of does. Again, though, for most of the movie you wouldn’t know it. Read the rest…
