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It’s hard to believe there are couples who’ve been married for thirty, forty, or even fifty years. So, what’s their secret? In this program, Chip shares a vital message in his ongoing teaching. He begins unpacking four biblical skills all great marriages have in common. Discover how you can improve your relationship today!

How do you develop spiritual intimacy?

I. Spiritual intimacy with Christ is cultivated by actively believing two things:

1. Whose you are: Chosen -Col. 1:13-22
2. Who you’ve become: Holy and loved -Col. 2:9-15

II. Spiritual intimacy with your mate is cultivated by recognizing the supremacy Christ’s role and relationship in your marriage. -Col. 1:15-18

III. The benefits of spiritual intimacy*

• Allows you to CONNECT at the deepest level.
• Links you with God’s PURPOSES and PLANS for you.
• Allows you to BLESS each other with God’s love.
• Brings your deepest values and desires into agreement.
• Opens the door to the deepest levels of COMMUNICATION.
• Empowers your marriage to SURVIVE.
• Connects you to a SUPPORTIVE body of fellow believers.

*Divorce Proof Your Marriage by Gary and Barbara Rosberg, pgs. 254-256.

IV. How to develop your personal spiritual intimacy**

• ASK God for it. -Col. 1:1-9
• BEWARE of counterfeits. -Col. 2:8-10
• GUARD your thought life. -Col. 3:1-4
• KILL spiritual competitors. -Col. 3:5-7
• SATURATE your life in God’s Word. -Col. 3:16

**Marriage that Works by Chip Ingram, specific help and practical steps for men and women; chapter 9 for men and chapter 11 for women.

V. Removing barriers and building bridges for spiritual intimacy

• There is no one right way to develop spiritual intimacy
• Pray together
• Worship together
• Share what you’re learning

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• "Divorce Proof Your Marriage" Book by Gary and Barbara Rosberg

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My plane had just landed in a Midwestern city during a record breaking cold spell and the pilot welcomed us to the city with a temperature reading that made you want to divert the fight to Florida. Well, at least I had checked the weather channel and I was able to anticipate the ice age, so I had the appropriate coat, scarf, gloves and layers. As I was waiting for my suitcase in the baggage claim area, I heard someone yell, "Grab those pineapples." Excuse me? Well sure enough there were two couples just returning from Hawaii with beautiful live flowers around their necks, and they were wearing short sleeve shirts and, of course, carrying their box of pineapples. Well, when I hit the wind outside, I was cold, but I was prepared. I can't imagine what happened to the Luau bunch! When they woke up that morning they probably just said, "Well, it's warm here. I'll just dress for where I am." They were totally unprepared for where they were going!

I'm Ron Hutchcraft and I want to have A Word With You today about "Dressing for Your Final Destination."

Now Jesus actually told about a man who was very prepared for where he was, but totally unprepared for where he was going. Maybe like you. Luke 12:16-20, our word for today from the Word of God, Jesus told them this parable, "The ground of a certain rich man produced a good crop. He thought to himself, 'What shall I do, I have no place to store my crops.' Then he said, 'This is what I'll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones and there I will store all my grain and my goods and I will say to myself you have many good things laid up for many years, take life easy, eat, drink and be merry.' But God said to him, 'You fool, this very night your life will be demanded from you, then who will get what you have prepared for yourself!'"

Here's a man who was really dressed for where he was, he had it all, he had his earth security well planned out. But he forgot about where he would be spending most of his future - in eternity. He was totally unprepared to meet God.

Someday your heart's going to beat for the last time, and in that unpredictable moment eternity will begin for you. And at that point it won't matter what your title was, or your income, or your religion, or your achievements. All that's going to matter is whether or not you have a personal love relationship with God. A relationship that can, according to the Bible, only be accessed through God's Son, Jesus Christ. Why? Because no one can make it to heaven with sin.

See, God was supposed to run your life and mine, but over and over we've said, "No, I'll do it, God." The Bible says, "All of us have sinned and we've fallen short of the glory of God." In this parable, "I will" three times. That man God called a fool, he just said, "I will, I will, I will." Because of that, God is out of our reach, but we're not out of His.

God says this is love, and this is the Bible speaking. "Not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins" in the most incredible act of love you'll ever hear about. The God we defied sacrificed His one and only Son to carry our death penalty for the sinning we did. And now your eternal destination, heaven or hell, depends totally on what you do with the man who died for your sin, Jesus Christ.

You can reject Him, you can ignore Him, or you can reach out to Him and say, "Lord I'm not ready for eternity but I want to be. I'm facing the fact I've gone my way instead of yours over and over again. Right now I'm putting all my trust in You and Your death on that cross for me to remove the sin between God and me, and to open the door to eternal life for me.

I want to invite you to go to our website because it's there to help you be sure you have begun a relationship with Him. It's

What kind of faith gets Heaven’s attention? In Luke 7, Jesus was amazed by a Roman centurion’s faith—not a religious leader, but a soldier who understood authority and believed Jesus could heal his servant with just a word...

Notes

The Roman soldier’s amazing faith got Heaven’s attention.
 
Weak or strong, everyone has a form of faith.
  
Read Luke 7:1–10
 
Luke 7:9
When Jesus heard this, He was amazed. Turning to the crowd that was following Him, He said, "I tell you, I haven't seen faith like this in all Israel!"
 
Everything about Jesus was amazing.
 
Matthew 8:27
They were amazed and said, "What kind of Man is this? Even the winds and the waves obey Him!"
  
Luke 7:9
When Jesus heard this, He was amazed.
 
Roman centurions were significant people.  
 
This centurion somehow knew Jesus could heal his beloved servant.
 
Sometimes non-believers have more faith than believers.
 
The two disciples on the Emmaus Road summed it up, “We had hoped He was the One.”
 
The non-believers remembered what Jesus said would happen after He died.
 
Matthew 27:63
We remember that while He was still alive that deceiver said, 'After three days I will rise again.'
 
Where does sickness come from?
 
Sickness and death were not part of God’s original plan for us.
 
Romans 5:12
Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned.
 
Satan brought the afflictions in Job's life.
 
God will, on occasion, allow sickness in our lives to keep us humble, to teach us lessons, and to prepare us for the future.
 
#1 Natural healing is what God built into the human body.
 
#2 There is supernatural healing too.
 
There is a promise of healing in the book of Isaiah.
(Isaiah 53:4–5)
 
1 Peter 2:24
"He himself bore our sins" in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; "by His wounds you have been healed."
 
Lay hold of this promise when you need His healing touch.
 
Why are some of us still sick?
One reason is simply a lack of asking.
(James. 4:2)
 
Mark 6:5–6
And because of their unbelief, he couldn't do any miracles among them except to place his hands on a few sick people and heal them. And he was amazed at their unbelief.
 
The people who knew Jesus best couldn’t see Him for who He really was.
 
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
 
The safest place to put your faith is in God.
 
Faith is belief plus action.
 
Faith does things.
 
Amazing faith is to be used, applied, and put through its paces.
 
The Christian life is lived by and through faith.
 
Faith can make the difference between something happening and not happening.
 
God is the One who works.
But He chooses to work through humans living by faith.
 
Even death is not the end.
 
Jesus said, “I am the living One. I died, but look—I am alive forever and ever!
I hold the keys of death and the grave.”
 
The powerful centurion had rank, influence, and resources.
The widow had nothing.  
 
The centurion reached out to Jesus.
But Jesus reached out to the woman.
 
Read Luke 7:11–17
 
Luke 7:13
When the Lord saw her, His heart overflowed with compassion. "Don't cry!" He said.
 
Jesus was deeply moved by the widow’s plight.
 
Jonah knew the nature of God was to forgive.
 
Jesus feels sorrow and compassion for those who have lost loved ones.
 
We will see our loved ones who died in faith again.
 
Paul uses the word “harpazō”, translated as “caught up.”
(1 Thessalonians 4:16–17)
 
The centurion demonstrated amazing faith.
 
For the people of Nazareth, their familiarity bred contemp

Join us this hour as we review a very important hearing held on Capitol Hill recently that dealt with the global advancement of censorship of free speech. The EU appears to be bringing the threat of censorship to the shores of America. Craig Parshall will break this all down for us and tell us why the threat is real and present.

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The story of the American Revolution has been told through every form of media, but what is never spoken of was the foundation of faith that underpinned everything that happed during those transformative times. On In The Market with Janet Parshall this week we looked back at the founding of our nation and how God’s hand directed the men who fought and died to establish this nation and it’s God-given freedoms as a model for the rest of the world. The Wizard of Oz is a childhood classic film and the images from this beloved film are ingrained in our collective memories. But our guest took us behind the scenes of an experience he had as the Lord showed him hidden truths and spiritual lessons that can be applied to all our lives through this beloved children’s film. The enemy is always seeking to tempt, distract and mislead God’s people but our guest, a respected pastor and teacher says that we don’t have to give in to his deceptions. Our guest gave us a clear understanding of the enemy’s tactics and what we can do to avoid falling into those temptations. Women take on so many challenges and roles throughout their lives and the exhaustion from carrying so many burdens is overwhelming. But women who walk with Christ have a fount of rest and restoration through Him that others do not. Our guest shared some wonderfully encouraging “refreshments” from God’s word that believing wives, mothers and grandmothers can take to their hearts and live with confidence and grace and give the same to others as well. Nobody is excluded from the power of media’s influence in their lives these days. From social media, tv news and internet articles we are bombarded with ideas and beliefs that can easily confuse and mislead us into wrong thinking. But we have the unflinching truth of God’s word to measure those ideas against. Join us for another instructional hour of In The Market with Janet Parshall.

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God’s plan for unity is bigger than politics or culture—and it starts with the church. Dr. Tony Evans explains how Jesus breaks down walls and brings people together without erasing their uniqueness.