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“and far from being trivial matters, a game, you're living in the grief and the grind of some very harsh realities. You're struggling with what's happening in your marriage. You're struggling with your job, your career. Some of you are struggling with enormous pressures financially in your life and you're wrestling with how to manage your money and what to do and dealing with that in life. And others of you are dealing with issues of behaviors and patterns”
David H. McKinley · Are We Just Spectators?“where to go some of you are dealing with a tribulation in your family your marriage is in trouble your marriage is struggling there's tribulation a child has walked away from the Lord and you're struggling with that tribulation tribulation is a reality and tribulation is an experience that we all know in life and it's a part of living in this Fallen World in the broken Brokenness of this world and the disappointment of this world as it is”
· Delivered From the Great Tribulation“Claire compassion and care but also great clarity from God's word as we need to know what does the bible tell us about marriages I think one of the reason our marriages and our families are struggling today is because we're so easily indwelling and believing lies of our culture John Mark Comer in his book live no lies he's also written ruthless elimination of hurry to my probably top five books we use live no lies when we preached our second Corinthians series and in that book he said this I think we”
· Does Marriage Really Matter?“We doubt God's grace in the struggles of weakness and sickness. We doubt God's justice in the injuries of inequity. We doubt God when our marriages are struggling and failing. We doubt God when our kids are wandering. We doubt God when we're dealing with endless, constant, repetitive pain. We doubt God when we suddenly lose someone that we treasure and love”
David H. McKinley · Responding to Those Who Doubt“forgive find your enjoyment and being someone who ministers Mercy to others and that's especially true in the home Dan allender and tremper Longman said we must never be naive enough to think of marriage as a Safe Harbor from the fall the deepest struggles of life will occur in the most primary relationship affected by the Fall that's marriage it was Ruth Graham who said every marriage needs two good givers and two good for givers and to be merciful”
· Can I Get Some Respect?“known the things that I've done, like, man, you wouldn't love me. You wouldn't accept me. You wouldn't sit across from me. You would just judge me. You see, guilt looks at the behavior, but shames puts an emphasis on the person. You don't just feel like you failed, you feel like you're a failure. There's a lot of people in the room who struggle with shame. How about the supposed to bees? I mean, my marriage is supposed to be better than this. My husband's supposed to be like this. My”
Zach Clinton · Finding Hope Again“he said that in a fallen world, marriage doesn't solve our emptiness, it exposes it. And if you don't understand that the very thing that you need most is a reconciliation of relationship with Christ, then you will spend your married life struggling to try to find how you can fill your emptiness and you simply won't do it. Being reconciled to God enables us to be reconciled to others.”
David H. McKinley · Reconciliation“and marries another commits adultery so is there biblical precedent and means for divorce yes but what God has joined together he doesn't desire for any man including husband or wife to separate and just think about this from a second for for a second from God's point of view of his Covenant commitment to us you see when you become a Believer and you repent of your sin and you put your life and your trust and your hope in”
· Does Marriage Really Matter?“relationships in life respect and when respect is gone when respect is lost relationships suffer and struggle for survival it was Gary Thomas an author who has written over 15 books on marriage who wrote this in one of his books we are obsessed with being respected but rarely consider our own obligation to respect”
· Can I Get Some Respect?“sexual liberalization the sexual Liberation revolution of the 1960s set in motion a Cascade effect the reversal of the long-standing moral consensus around promiscuity separating sex from Marriage worked in tandem with the Advent of birth control and the legalization of abortion separating sex from procreation which moved on to the legalization of no fault divorce turning a covenant into a contract and separated sex from intimacy infidelity then to Tender and hook up culture separating”
· Does Marriage Really Matter?“say it, reconciled to God by the death of his son, much more now that we are, say it again, reconciled, shall we be saved by his life. More than that, we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation. That's our word. Reconciled. Reconciliation. It's another of those R words that we are”
David H. McKinley · Reconciliation“and the ministry of reconciliation is not the pastor's mission. It is the church's mission. And therefore, we must live it out. As I say that, I simply say it because reconciliation is what our lives are all about once we are in Christ. The reconciling mission of God has for us in the world, but there is to become a reconciling manner in us.”
David H. McKinley · Reconciliation“to be accounted righteous. That is to be reconciled in a new status as he will bear their iniquities. It is the reconciling work of Christ that brings blessing in our lives. So what are some of the blessings of reconciliation? I mean, I can say it's a blessing, but what are the blessings? What are the specific blessings of knowing that we can be reconciled to God?”
David H. McKinley · Reconciliation
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“reality or maybe a terminal illness and you're struggling with how does this all come to an end in my life. Some of you are dealing with a persistent pain and that's a tribulation in your life, trying to navigate and trying to determine where to go. Some of you are dealing with a tribulation in your family. Your marriage is in trouble. Your marriage is struggling. It's tribulation. A child has walked away from the Lord and you're struggling with that tribulation. Tribulation is a reality and tribulation is an experience that we all know in life. And it's a”
David H. McKinley · He will Deliver From the Great Tribulation“Men are like earthenware. But the woman is to be treasured and honored and protected in the very best sense of that meaning. Why? So that your prayers may not be hindered. Some of us are stumbling in prayer because we're struggling with our marriages. And we need to get our marriages right so that our prayer life will be right. Jesus said this in the Gospel of Matthew chapter 5.”
David H. McKinley · We Have a Father Who Hears Us“up and be real and be honest without fear of retribution or judgment and they could just share their problems, it would cut down on my workload immensely. It really would. And it would make a life group a safe place to be. And because what happens so often is a couple will come into my office and they're struggling in their marriage. And I sit and I listen to them and we're struggling with this and this and this is what's going on. This is what's going on. And when they finally stop talking and they look at me like, okay, what do you got? I say, joined a club. We're all doing”
Bret Legg · Simmons Series“to doubt His love. Some of you have been waiting for children. My wife and I certainly know that experience. Seven years of marriage and childless, struggling with waiting and hoping and wondering that one day we would hold a baby in our arms. And yet even in the ultimate providence of God, we were never able to have children biologically. And yet providentially over time and in His grace,”
David H. McKinley · The Christ Who Cares For You“prone you are to discouragement. Because the higher we rise, the easier it is for us to fall. And so discouragement is something that we deal with. Of course, there are many sources of discouragement, beginning with the four-letter word LIFE, life. Life can be discouraging. But many of us are discouraged because, well, there's a struggle going on in our marriage that we can't seem to begin to unresolve. There's a battle going on with our kids, and there's just tension”
David H. McKinley · The Dugout of Discouragement“them, He loved them, but He delayed. And it's important for us today to recognize that even when we experience God's delays in our lives, we are not being denied because of God's lack of love for us. I'm speaking to some of you today here with me in the room, some of you today who are listening and watching, and I know today that you're struggling with the fact that marriage has been delayed in your life. You have been waiting for, preparing for a day”
David H. McKinley · The Christ Who Cares For You“And that king is not going to be defeated, and his will is not going to be overruled. And the power of Jesus is that he is the king of all eternity, the king of kings and the Lord of lords. And my question today is, do you know the king? Some of you today are struggling, And you're thinking, my marriage is over. Some of you today are looking and thinking about your children and thinking, what a mess.”
David H. McKinley · Guarding Against Satan's Schemes“of control. And we've got a major issue going on in our economy today and a lot of decisions being made that are having a lot of impact on a lot of people. Maybe the struggle that you have in your life is a loss of a marriage. And what began as a wonderful hope of a happily ever after has become a nightmare. And you are struggling today because you are barely hanging on in a marriage that you do not know if it has hope. Maybe there's another dream in your life, and I don't know what that”
David H. McKinley · Choosing Resilience Beyond Ruin“2nd Corinthians verse 7 1 through 5 even talks about the importance of having a consistent sex life in marriage again don't turn there I don't want to lose you but 2nd Corinthians chapter 7 verses one through five but whether you're married whether you're not no matter how good your marriage is no matter how old or young you are you have to struggle”
Bret Legg · Hotter Means Pleasure“The deepest struggles of life will occur in the most primary relationship affected by the fall, marriage. And it takes a lot of mercy to build a lasting marriage. It takes a lot of mercy to build a strong church. It takes a lot of mercy to fulfill God's mission that he's called us to in the world. And that doesn't mean that that mercy is without standards, our expectations, our responsibilities,”
David H. McKinley · Can I Get Some Respect?“that point, because then we know there's no other option but to follow God. In my marriage, I've been married 54 and a half years now, 54 and a half years. We made that covenant agreement. So there's never been an option, but we're going to work through the challenges and struggles and you know, the differences and whatever it is, because we know that our marriage is on purpose and on mission. So when you're in that kind of a covenant all in agreement, you see your life as your own mission. And I think then that gives your life eternal purpose and direction every day.”
Tom Mullins · Tom Mullins“That's the answer, not some other means in the world. And so to that end, we come to this passage that is so full of this amazing story of this huge chasm that existed in the ancient world, A chasm of separation between Jew and Gentile. And if we're going to understand the magnitude of the reconciliation that is discussed here and the peace that has come here in Ephesians 2,”
David H. McKinley · Included in God's Covenant