Get Up and Walk · Week 5 · Monday Won Without a Word His wife is not where he is with God, and it has been the quiet ache of his marriage for years. He came back to faith hard…
Won Without a Word
Your vulnerability is someone else’s rise
Seven Statements from the Cross • Week 2 • Monday The Thing He Never Told Anyone Statement II — Luke 23:43 • Chris, mid-40s, father of a 22-year-old “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the…
Call them back to the table
“Not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.” Philippians 2:4 · ESV Tom, 44, comes home on a Friday. His 14-year-old Jaylen is gaming in his room. His 16-year-old Maya is on…
Both directions
“Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.” Galatians 6:2 · ESV Kevin, 47, just got off the phone with his mother’s oncologist. Her treatment isn’t responding the way they’d hoped. He walks into the kitchen where…
Words are cheap
“Love is patient and kind… it does not insist on its own way.” 1 Corinthians 13:4–5 · ESV Harold wasn’t always this man. He was the guy who fixed things. Coached Little League. Built the deck in the backyard with…
Don’t Take It Out on Them
“Love one another as I have loved you.” John 15:12 · ESV Marcus, 52, and Renae have been married 31 years. They built a good life, raised kids, survived hard seasons, made it through the kind of years most couples…
Don’t take it out on them
“When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple whom He loved standing nearby, He said to His mother, ‘Woman, behold, your son!’ Then He said to the disciple, ‘Behold, your mother!’ From that hour the disciple took her into…
The Long Way Home
“I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.” 1 Corinthians 3:6 (ESV) Amber called Derek on his commute home. She was processing something hard with her sister and needed to talk through it. Ninety seconds in, Derek was already…
Submit to One Another
“Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her.” Ephesians 5:25 (ESV) Derek, 41, is a guy who tends to win. He’s good at it. At work, in conversation, in the low-grade ongoing negotiations…
Using the Bible as a Hammer
USING THE BIBLE AS A HAMMER There is a particularly dangerous version of the accidental Pharisee that shows up inside Christian marriages. He loves his wife. He is serious about God’s Word. He has done the reading, attended the conferences,…