I believe I can confidently say that I am an expert in marriage having been in one for twenty-seven years that has lasted through storms, but more importantly one that has grown in love and in Christ.

I am working on the sermon for this Sunday that is dealing with a man being a husband and a father. Unfortunately today, men are portrayed as bumbling idiots on sitcoms when it comes to their role as a husband. Why? I believe it is because we live in a culture, (America) that has devalued marriage and the family. Everybody Loves Raymond is a classic example. It is a hilarious show and will make you laugh your head off, but Ray is portrayed as a bumbling husband.

Men have forgotten that we were created in the image of God and that he instilled into us his passion. Yet we have become passive husbands and passive fathers. Men, our story starts in Genesis. it starts with a creator who creates a being that he gives the choice to love Him or reject Him. When the fall in the garden of Eden happened, Adam chose Eve over God, just as Eve chose "self" over God.

I want to say to you, Do not become complacent.  Do not take your mate for granted.  Work at your relationship.  Cultivate it.  Read books on it.  Go to marriage enrichment seminars. Find the time.  Put the investment into your marriage so that when the rains of culture try to erode your relationship and the floods of crisis try to come and undermine the foundation and the winds of change beat against the structure, you will have a foundation that is built solid on your relationship to Jesus Christ.