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June 28 - August 28, 2017
We hurry to date as soon as we hit high school but wait to settle down and marry until after we’ve started our career and enjoyed some freedom.
We come in and out of relationships like buying new shoes, slipping off anyone who begins to feel uncomfortable or inconvenient and then picking up whatever pair we like best the next day.
We love to be loved but aren’t completely sure we even know what love is.
The whole dating game thrives on adrenaline and ambiguity—always showing enough to pique someone’s interest and curiosity, but never enough to answer the most important questions.
We’re always projecting and positioning ourselves to get the attention and affirmation we crave but without ever risking or giving up too much in the process.
When worth and identity are being measured in society by who likes us and how many like us, he reminds us we’re already worth far more than we know and defined by a love higher than any human love.
Against all the hide-and-seek ambiguity, he injects us with intentionality—with the liberty to communicate clearly and carefully in love
If Christian dating—the intentional, selfless, and prayerful process of pursuing marriage—sounds like slavery, we don’t get it. If low-commitment sexual promiscuity sounds like freedom, we don’t get it. Jesus may ask more of us, but he does so to secure something far better for us.
I want to shape our waiting and longing to reflect everything Jesus has already given and promised us, and to honor the work he’s given us to do in every season of life, regardless of our marital status.
Why would I think my marriage would survive? Why would I subject myself to that kind of regret and pain? I want at least a few of you to believe again in marriage.
One of the most radical and countercultural things we can do today to declare our faith in Jesus is to marry someone and remain faithful to that spouse until we die.
Finally, on this side of heaven we are all not yet married. Every wedding day is only a small and inadequate picture of a wedding day to come, when we are ...
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God made our marriages to be movie posters of a marriage to come.
From far too young, I longed for the affection, safety, and intimacy I anticipated with a wife.
I started dating too early. I stayed in relationships too long.
