Sermon: "The Best Thing You Can Do for Your Spouse" by Randy Roberts 
Part 4 – The Best Thing You Can Do

Prayer: Genevieve Koh Isidro

Pastoral Welcome: Rob Mohr

Baptism: Annelise Juliette Mace - Doug Mace

Children’s Feature: Timothy Gillespie

Meditation:

If you just learn a single trick, Scout, you’ll get along a lot better with all kinds of folks. You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view … until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it. – Atticus Finch, a fictional character in Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel To Kill a Mockingbird

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these. – George Washington Carver

Scripture Reading: Luke 6:27–36, TNIV - Terry and Kathie Ingram

INTRODUCTION TO THE SERMON

Marriage is the most intimate of relationships and, at the same time, maybe the most challenging. Those two realities exist side-by-side in countless homes. The challenges come largely because of the closeness that marriage creates. When we are so close to another person, and know the intimate details of their lives – the good, the bad and the ugly – it is bound to create challenges. This sometimes leaves couples contemplating whether or not they made a good choice when they married.

If you’ve ever been to that place, you may wish to consider the words of Bill Brown, quoted in Marriage Partnership with these words:

Every marriage seems to have its periods of “death” as well as “resurrection.” C.S. Lewis felt this way and attributed so much divorce among Christians to their not waiting out that deadly period – the winter months of a marriage – until the spring, or resurrection, arrives.

A friend of mine likens marriage to the lilac bush in her garden. When it is bare and brittle during winter, she doesn’t pull it out, only to plant a new bush each spring. Instead, she lives through that dormant period, and in the spring her lilac bush has not only grown, but it is more beautiful than ever.  (Bill Brown, Together Each Day. Marriage Partnership, Vol. 5, no. 6).

You may wonder what the best thing you can do for your spouse might be, especially if you find yourself in that “winter” period. That is the topic of our sermon today. Our series is entitled, The Best Thing You Can Do. Today we focus on marriage. As we do so, it is my prayer that our marriages will be strengthened, empowered by the Spirit of Jesus to be what he designed marriage to be. 

God’s best to you.

Randy Roberts
Senior Pastor

Note: Child dedications and baptisms are in the extras section of the DVD

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