This awful take by Sandberg treats sinful, reckless men as almost "throw-away" entertainment before "settling down" later.
Scripture calls men and women to pursue godliness, wisdom, purity, and faithfulness from the very start. Marriage is not built on worldly self-fulfillment or feminist ideology, but on covenant love, sacrificial leadership, mutual service, and submission to the Lord Jesus Christ.
Before you call yourself a leader, ask:
Do I serve when unseen?
Do I repent when corrected?
Do I protect the weak?
Do I obey Scripture?
Do I speak truth when it's costly?
Do I lead by example at home?
Do I love holiness more than applause?
Do I take responsibility when things go wrong?
Do I point people to Christ or to myself?
Good morning, brothers and sisters. Praise the Lord!
This is your morning reminder to dig into Scripture. Sit at the feet of the Master. Hunger for the words and guidance of Christ.
God created the institution of marriage, not man.
He gave us a perfect picture of what that marriage should look like in Genesis 2:22-24: a union between one man and one woman.
Any other version of marriage isn’t a real marriage. It’s actually a perversion of God’s creation.
It baffles me that we can board a plane and place our lives in the hands of a pilot we’ve never met, or step into an Uber with a complete stranger behind the wheel, yet we often struggle to trust the God who is perfectly good, all-knowing, and completely in control.
The Cross Should Be Raised
George MacLeod was a great preacher who, hundreds of years ago, faithfully obeyed the Great Commission. He exalted Jesus Christ in his preaching and wasn't afraid to preach the blood of the cross. He said, "I simply argue that the cross should be raised at the center of the marketplace as well as on the steeple of the church. I am recovering the claim that Jesus was not crucified in a cathedral between two candles, but on a cross between two thieves; on the town's garbage heap; at a crossroad, so cosmopolitan they had to write His title in Hebrew and Latin and Greek ... at the kind of a place where cynics talk smut, and thieves curse, and soldiers gamble. Because that is where He died. And that is what He died for. And that is what He died about. That is where church-men ought to be and what church-men ought to be about."
There goes another minute. Gone forever. Go share your faith while you still have time.