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Three Types of Fun Every Married Couple Must Enjoy

On Wednesday, I explained that God made marriage a beautiful thing and that He wants you to enjoy it. There are three types of fun every married couple must enjoy! The first is face to face fun. What all does this entail? Think back to your dating days when all you wanted to do was […]

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Understanding How God Works

I want to go over three main points that Lysa made on Sunday when sharing her story. Amidst all of the chaos, confusion, and discontentment, she learned how God works. Firstly, “God does His best work in the unseen.” When she looked at where Art was as a result of his unfaithfulness, she had a hard time […]

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Marriage: Walking in Grace & Mercy

It was an honor to have my good friends Art and Lysa TerKeurst visit The Summit this past Sunday. While their story is known publically due to their positions in business and ministry, there may have been people at church who were unaware of all they’ve been through. Lysa shared the devastation she experienced because […]

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Change Your Orbit: How to Follow God

How do you seek God? You already know that it’s important, that it’s a top priority. But how do you actually do this? You and your spouse can seek God together as you pray together every day. Prayer changes things! Take a look at 2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV): “if my people, who are called by my name, will […]

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The Language of Love

I have a cousin in California who is one of those “off the hook” good surfers. He lives in the land of big waves—really, really big waves. The biggest ones (for you non-Californians) are not in Huntington Beach or Newport. They are several hours North where the water is even colder and the sharks a […]

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Chick-Fil-A didn’t invent marriage. They’re just defending it!

You’re not ‘Chicken’ if you defend marriage! For the last couple of weeks, Chick-Fil-A has come under enormous attack for, wait for it… Saying they agree with God on marriage being only between one man and one woman. For this, politicians and Hollywood “stars” (as well as well known musicians) have demanded they be punished, […]

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How Things Break

Today is the day to stand firm for the institution of marriage in the state of North Carolina by voting FOR the marriage amendment that adds protection for this precious union into our state constitution. In today’s post I want to make a final argument before we all head for the polls. Consider how often […]

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Sunday Evening Mind Dump

Took a little bit of a blog break last week. Thanks for the breather, gang! I also skipped my first ‘Sunday Evening Mind Dump’ in quite a while—glad to be back! We wrapped up our 5 week series on the book of James entitled, “Moxie” today. I learned something…when going through a book of the […]

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Relationship/Sex Q&A

This coming Sunday evening (November 21st) @ our Southbrook Weddington campus I will be hosting a time where we deal with some of the questions and struggles that married/dating folks have. There is some confusion as to who should come to this, so let me clarify… Previously, this was for married couples only but I […]

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