Join us as we begin our new series on Prayer! We will walk together through the Lord's Prayer found in Matthew 6.

Pleasure was a part of God's plan, and sex and romance are crucial parts of marriage. They are for our enjoyment now, and they also point to the wonderful intimacy that is to come in Christ Jesus.

Marriage at its core is friendship: a constant and close, truthful and compassionate friendship that is devoted to growth of the spouses holiness.  This is the primary devoted friendship of life,  every other friendship is subordinate, even children and parents.

The purpose and meanings of the gendered difference that makes marriage beautiful, sex spiritual, and life fruitful. Part 2

The purpose and meanings of the gendered difference that makes marriage beautiful, sex spiritual, and life fruitful. Part 1

The Holy Spirit is the supernatural power that you have to have filling you and your marraige.  You are called to love a flawed person whit a love that you do not naturally possess.  Marriage is a covenant container that commits you for life and provides the permanence that lets you open up and still be loved.

The visible design of marriage is a model and pointer to the gospel of Jesus Christ and gives us an experience that wets our appetite to have the spouse we are created eternally for.

Jesus is the first citizen of the new supernatural world. Revelation gives us a picture of a supernatural world, not an anti natural world. Cities, the result of the human process of cultivation is renewed and beautified by Him. Jesus prepares for us the city that Adam should have built and gifts it to us, His bride. All the best of human culture is brought into the city. This should fill our minds as we turn the page on a new year. This is the day that all things will really be made new.

For Mary, a miracle breaks in and seems to interrupt the natural course of her lives. But, we do not really know what God is doing in our lives as part of His super-natural order of where He is taking things. How this day needs to go according to His story, His plan and what He is making. This means His hand over our lives can be a painful thing, bringing things into our lives we would never choose, in order to bring about the good and Glory that will be seen only by "walking backwards into the future."

Jesus is the second person of the trinity, the Word. Through Him and for Him all things were made. His miracles demonstrate not "raw power", but specific power, they are signs. He is and has always been running the whole show.... the God of all wine at Cana, The God of all harvest and all fish, The God of all healing, the God over death. He is not just a King, not just the King, He is "Her King".