Beyond the Pulpit

#43: Why pursuing Christ, hard work, and sexual purity prepares you to love your future spouse well


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This week on Beyond the Pulpit we walk through Genesis 24 to champion marriage as a good gift and explore how walking with Christ, working hard, and pursuing sexual purity prepare us to bless a future spouse. We wrestle with real questions about temptation, guardrails, and whether to date while struggling.

• Genesis 24 as a framework for dating and marriage
• marriage as a good, not a barrier
• be the best thing that happened to someone
• walk with Christ as the core preparation
• work hard and build resilience for covenant life
• sexual purity as virtue, not only avoidance
• fire in the fireplace analogy for blessing and danger
• cultural saturation, temptation, and wise guardrails
• self-control and lifelong battle before and after marriage
• should you date if you struggle with porn and lust
• 1 Corinthians 7, tension with fleeing immorality
• honesty, accountability, direction over perfection


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