Sermon preached on November 16, 2008
I have a strange passion -- or compassion -- that has been a strong part of my personality as long as I remember. My heart continually reaches out to old cars, tractors, nearly anything mechanical, that does not work! When I was dating Andrea, she absolutely marveled (not in the same sense as did I) when I forked over a whopping $500 for a barely running totally rusted 1972 Camaro RS with four flat tires! God seems to have blessed me (some might say, cursed me...) with an interest and ability to make mechanical things work again. I have spent much time over the years tinkering, gathering advice, and looking through manuals to figure out how things were supposed to work.
But after three to four years into my marriage, I found it was not running very smoothly. Unfortunately, I did not know intuitively how to change it. Honestly, I did not know my wife, not what she desired, and I felt she had little desire left for me. Our lines of communication were disrupted. I felt at times like giving up. At other times I would search through "manuals," trying to figure it all out. It wasn't until a couple of years later, however, that I turned to God's Word. And there, in 1 Peter 3, I thought surely I had discovered a blatant error in the Scriptures...
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