What is The Lord’s Supper? The Lord’s Supper (Communion) is a sacred and symbolic way of remembering the death of Jesus and renewing our commitment to Him. During the Lord’s Supper, believers… • Remember Christ’s death on their behalf • Examine their lives in light of God’s mercy and love • Engage in confession and […]
We decide to get married because we’re looking for something and we believe we’ve found it in our spouse. But a few years into the marriage, we’re still looking for something and we’re wondering why our spouse is withholding it. What happened? There’s a general principle in life and marriage, and it’s this: we tend […]
(The posts in this series have been adapted from the “Relentless Love” marriage seminar, created and taught by David McKinley and Bret Legg at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Dallas, TX.) In this series, we’ve talked about the things that go into making a good marriage story. We’ve talked about the author, the characters, the obstacles, […]
(The posts in this series have been adapted from the “Relentless Love” marriage seminar, created and taught by David McKinley and Bret Legg at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Dallas, TX.) If you’ve been following this series from the beginning, you already know about many of the parts of a good marriage story. You know about the author, […]
(The posts in this series have been adapted from the “Relentless Love” marriage seminar, created and taught by David McKinley and Bret Legg at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Dallas, TX.) In this series, we’re looking at your marriage as if it were a story, and hopefully a good story that you and others want to read. We’ve been […]
(The posts in this series have been adapted from the “Relentless Love” marriage seminar, created and taught by David McKinley and Bret Legg at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Dallas, TX.) In this series, we’re looking at your marriage as if it were a story and what goes into making it a good story that you and […]
(The posts in this series have been adapted from the “Relentless Love” marriage seminar, created and taught by David McKinley and Bret Legg at Prestonwood Baptist Church in Dallas, TX.) Whether it’s War and Peace or Green Eggs and Ham, everyone loves a good story. Children ask for them at bedtime, people tell them at work, individuals troll for […]
There are times when doing the right thing seems to make matters worse. You try to defend your friend on the playground and you’re the one who gets beat up. An employer asks for an honest opinion then makes your life miserable because they didn’t like what you said. You stop to help a stranded motorist […]
We just put our Christmas decorations up…five days before Christmas! No, we’re not Scrooges and no, this is not typical for us. We were going to have the decorations up three weeks before Christmas, but that week turned out to be more demanding than we expected. (Don’t they all?) We did stick a naked tree in […]