Last week we talked about choosing oneness in our marriage. A word I did not use last week, but a word that is very important to the work of oneness is vulnerability. To be vulnerable is to let the guard down, open the door, let them in; and man is it hard to do that when you are hurt. Today we look at one of the most amazing things about God that is perhaps the most difficult to practice: forgiveness. God is a forgiving God.

It is difficult to understand, but in marriage there is perhaps a unique opportunity to just touch the edge of glory, the edge of this mystery of the Trinity. God gives us marriage with a purpose of this oneness relationship where we experience His being and practice being like Him.

It is difficult to understand, but in marriage there is perhaps a unique opportunity to just touch the edge of glory, the edge of this mystery of the Trinity. God gives us marriage with a purpose of this oneness relationship where we experience His being and practice being like Him.

Well, good morning Heights Family. I want to start this morning spending a few minutes with Jerry Witte, our Next Generation Pastor. We just watched a video introducing a ministry called Married People.

Well, good morning Heights Family. I want to start this morning spending a few minutes with Jerry Witte, our Next Generation Pastor. We just watched a video introducing a ministry called Married People.

We live in a culture that questions if family, if marriage really gives us any more chance at love, for it is marriage and family that seems to be a big source for so much hurt. So why do it? Why trap ourselves in those bond? Well we saw last week that trapped in those bonds just might be our greatest opportunity to learn love. Marriage and family has not failed us, as much as we have failed to understand what the purpose of marriage and family is.

We live in a culture that questions if family, if marriage really gives us any more chance at love, for it is marriage and family that seems to be a big source for so much hurt. So why do it? Why trap ourselves in those bond? Well we saw last week that trapped in those bonds just might be our greatest opportunity to learn love. Marriage and family has not failed us, as much as we have failed to understand what the purpose of marriage and family is.

How is it that the home can have our most meaningful moments and our worst? How do we experience the most hurt and disappointment with the people that love us the most? I think the home will always be our greatest opportunity to experience both love and hurt. Why? Because the home houses the sinners we cant easily get away from.

How is it that the home can have our most meaningful moments and our worst? How do we experience the most hurt and disappointment with the people that love us the most? I think the home will always be our greatest opportunity to experience both love and hurt. Why? Because the home houses the sinners we cant easily get away from.

Happy Easter! We are so glad you are here to join us and a billion or so people around the world in remembering and celebrating the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. And in that vain, let us refresh ourselves with the story. Ill read portions of the story as told by the Gospel of Mark beginning in 15:22-27; 33-39; 16:1-6.