These Four Walls, Pt. 3: How to Have a Good Marriage

Don't be fooled by these easy-sounding titles; they are meant to be taken in a "tongue-in-cheek" sort of way. After all, as Pastor Glenn Packiam points out this week, the Bible's ideals about marriage are held in tension with its narratives of strained and broken marriages. The beautiful truth is that God meets us where we are, bring beauty out of our brokenness. We explore what it means to say that marriage is about becoming one, forgiving one another, and allowing Jesus to be the center. The whole sermon is brought to a powerful conclusion with a remarkable testimony of restoration-in-progress from a young couple in our congregation. What we find in the end is not a rosy picture of marriage, but a hopeful one because of the grace of God.