1. Dating is explosive, passionate, exciting, and romantic

1. Dating is explosive, passionate, exciting, and romantic

2. What used to be delightfully surprising becomes dreadfully familiar

1. Dating is explosive, passionate, exciting, and romantic

2. What used to be delightfully surprising becomes dreadfully familiar

3. The new wears off and what used to sizzle has to work to maintain a fizzle

• God’s goal for a marriage is not just that it survive, but that it thrive as an expression of your relationship with Him.

MARRIAGE EDITION

• Commitment is energy, interest, attitude and time.

MARRIAGE EDITION

A. Ask the architect, Jas 1:5

• The key to getting along with each other is first rightly relating to God individually.

• We become like that which we are committed to.

A. Ask the architect, Jas 1:5

B. Build on a solid foundation, Luke 6:48

• A solid foundation requires faith and flexibility.

A. Ask the architect, Jas 1:5

B. Build on a solid foundation, Luke 6:48

C. Cooperate as a team, Eph 5:21

• “In honour preferring one another” means it is an honor to be able to let the other person go before you and be the leader.

• Women: affection, conversation, honesty, finances, and faithfulness

• Men: sex, companionship, attractiveness, peace, and admiration

• Marriage is not about what you have a right to, but

about demonstrating unconditional love to one

another in grace.

E—ENCOURAGE each otherN—NEW things tried J—JOINT help givenO—OFFENSES forgivenY—YES is said