Phoenix Bible Church

#EternalKingdom

“Bottom line, kingdoms rise, kingdoms fall. But there is one kingdom that's coming that will never ever cease. If you are a person who has a faith in Jesus Christ, you're a citizen of that kingdom. We need to live as a citizen of that kingdom in this one and work for the sea to make it a better place to represent Christ well. One of the reasons that Paul said that we should be praying for those is that we might experience peace so that we might proclaim the truth.”

#PeaceInTheStorm

“See, here's Christian peace and confidence. It's in the storm. Not just when the storm is over. It's in the den with the lions. It's in the midst of that depression. It's in the midst of your doubt. It's in the midst of your marital problems. It's in the midst of that diagnosis that you don't know the outcome of yet. It's in the midst of your trials that God is still true. Do you do you have that confidence? Do you have that kind of peace?”

#GospelHope

“This is the beauty of the gospel, that that God who is judge, who is righteous, who is good, he entered into the muck and mire of the lives that we get to experience today. He lived that life. But he didn't just live it, he also died. Because the judgment that comes upon the king is also the judgment that faces us, a death. And that death isn't just temporary, but eternal. It separates us from the God who created us in his image because he loves us. But he doesn't want us to be separated. He wants us to be united with him. He's beckoning, come, believe, come to me.”

#NoOneTooFarGone

“This story in Daniel four is meant to remind you, no one's too far gone. If they still have breath in their lungs. By the way, did you know we have Jesus Christ who lived a perfect life, who died at death, but that wasn't the end of his story. Did you know he walked out of a tomb? He beat death. If that's true and it is, anything's possible. Anything's possible. And your kid can be transformed. And your neighbor can be transformed. Do you believe it? And that politician who you don't like can be transformed. And this is what God does. He is in the business of making dead people come alive.”

#GodsLove

“You feel that guilt and shame right now. And you think God has left you because of it. And that is the lie of the enemy in your idolatry. Right now, God looks at you in the midst of that sin that you haven't talked about with anybody else, that idol. And he loves you, and he sees it, and he loves you. And he sees it all. The way it works out, the what you do when nobody's around, what's in your heart. He he sees it and he loves you and he's with you. And he says, hey, my child, don't keep going back to this empty well. Return to the Lord. Let's go together.”

#AskForHelp

“Some of you just need to go to somebody today and say, I need help. I need prayer. I'm hurting. Pray with me. mercy from God with me concerning this thing that I don't understand. This marriage thing I don't understand, this relationship thing I don't understand, this friendship thing, this job thing, this school thing, this, I this financial thing. I need your help. I need you to join me in my pain, in my mystery, and I need you to go on behalf of God almighty on our behalf together. I need you. You need one another.”

#FaithAndConviction

“Are you resolved? Do you know where you stand? Like, not like how you feel. Do you know where you stand? Do you know your convictions and your identity in Christ? Do you know where you stand theologically, financially? Do you know where you stand relationally? Do you know where you stand sexually? Do you know where you you stand? Have you taken some time to to think about, God, what were the things that, like, I would actually maybe risk my life for? What are those things? You don't wait for the difficulty to decide those things. You resolve ahead of time. You predetermine those things in Christ. You know where you stand. That's what Daniel shows us.”

#ChristFulfilledTheLaw

“And Jesus Christ, the son of God, perfect in every way, lives that perfect life that you could ever live. He dies of death in your place. And all that sin and all that wrath that you deserve, Jesus takes upon himself, the New Testament tells us. On a cross, upon a hill where everybody can see him. And all the shame and all the sin and all the things that have been done to you and all the commission and omish, past, present, future. Jesus Christ, the perfect Son of God, he is the perfect sacrifice. He fulfilled the law perfectly. All the stuff in the Old Testament points to him, John five says.”

#findYour2AMFriends

“Do you have somebody like that? My friend Howard calls them 2AM friends. Not because they're out partying at 2AM. Okay? That'd be funny for Howard. he says, there's a few guys I know. If I call them at 2AM and I'm gonna bind just emotionally or physically, they will answer their phone and they will help. Do you have those people? One day you'll need those people. One day you'll need those people. Don't wait till you do. You need them now. Start building into that now. That's where the fruit is, both in the good times and in the the bad.”

#ChurchIsPlanA

“And yet he said, yeah, I want all those people. I wanna die for those people. I wanna give my life, not just say I love them. Wanna show it through the cross, through humiliation. And I wanna rise again and overcome all of those things. And I wanna work in these people, but I wanna work through them. And there's no plan b. This is plan a, and it's called the church of Jesus Christ. Aren't you glad? Aren't you thankful this morning for Jesus Christ?”

#EternalImpactAtWork

“Do you approach your work that way? That as you go in on Monday morning, that there are people there, whether it's on Zoom or in the office, customers, clients, coworkers, that you can have an eternal impact on, that you can bring transformation to their lives in. Jesus has a legacy that lasts forever, and he invites us, whatever our jobs are, to approach work that we can have an impact that lasts forever.”

#VocationServesMission

“Should I stay or should I go? Let me just frame it up for you this way. You're some of you are balancing that right now. Maybe it's the school you attend. Maybe it's the job that you work. Maybe it's the position you hold. And your framework entirely for making that decision is this. Is it hard or is it easy? So, I would actually raise the stakes and tell you never leave your job because it's hard. Never stay at your job because it's easy. That is not the kingdom categories for how you should stay or leave and how you should decide that situation. Here's a better way to decide it. Here's a question you should write down. Is your vocation causing you to forsake your mission? Is your vocation causing you to forsake your primary mission in life? What's your primary mission in life?”

#WorkIsBrokenNotEvil

“In Genesis chapter three, work is now broken. But get this, work is broken. It's not evil. Some of you think your boss is Satan. There's only one of him who came to steal, kill, and destroy. Your boss may be influenced by Satan, but he's not Satan and your work is not evil. Is your work broken and hard? Yes. Genesis three tells us why. That sin infiltrates our work. It it breaks the systems of work, the circumstances of work. The people who do the work are broken and that's you and me. Not just your boss or your coworker or customer out there. That's all of us are broken by sin and sinful people go to workplaces. Therefore, we see work is broken and hard. The ground is cursed, Genesis three says. There's thorns and thistles and sweat when you work. It's not evil, but it is hard and broken.”

#IdentityOverDestination

“And many times we get these flipped and reversed that God is not primarily concerned with where you are going. Some of you need to hear that today. Some of you are trying to make a decision about a job. Some of you are trying to make a decision about who to marry. Some of you are trying to make a decision about where to go to school. Some of are trying to make a decision. Should I go to my boss about this thing or should I not? Should I apply for this promotion or or should I stay where I'm at? This seems corrupt. Should I work here? How do I navigate all this? And here's the reality. God is more concerned with who you are becoming than where you are going.”

#WorkIsFromGod

“``See, sin did not create work. It cursed it, but sin did not create work. God did. God did. So my question is, do you see your work that way? Do you see your work as a student? Some of you are getting ready to go back to school. I talked to some teachers this morning who, by the way, should get paid more also. I can't do that for you, so just to set expectations. But and they're like, oh, man. Like, school's starting and get my classroom ready. And do you see it as an opportunity, your profession as an opportunity to platform Jesus, the kingdom of God, his goodness on the earth? That's how God sees it.”

#WorkRevealsAndRedeems

“``Here's where we're going. If you take notes, I'm gonna give it to you right off the top. Why work? Why do you work? Some of you, you wake up on Monday asking that question. Why am I doing this? Why are you doing this? Here's why you're doing it. It's to reveal and to redeem. Work reveals and work redeems. Now as we grab Bibles, if you don't have a Bible, grab one right in front of you, pull it up on your phone. This is gonna be a little bit sword drill today. I'm gonna go cross scripture and show us the theology of work, but we're gonna start in the opening pages of scripture with work reveals.”

#EternalLifeOverLikes

“``That's the hope that we have in Christ. That's the joy that we have in Christ, and that's the life that we have in Christ. And do we want to live that way or not? Or are we just content with with having a good retirement built up and sitting on a beach until we die? Princes will perish, but God will reign forever. And Jesus gives us a path to live with him in his kingdom forever. Eternal life seems a lot better than a few followers on Instagram. It's the beauty of the gospel. That it's not just, forgiveness so that we don't feel shame or guilt though it is that. It is a life that God calls us into by his grace and mercy and through the sacrifice of Jesus.”

#KingOfKings

“``This is the king of kings and lord of lords. This is God in the flesh. He is the one finally who had come for us to follow and put our faith and trust in. He is the one in whom we find salvation. He is the one in whom we can be redeemed. He is the one who gives us the example, our savior. It's Jesus who shows what it looks like to have God in the flesh on earth. And the beauty of it is that he invites us into his kingdom. He promises eternal life to overcome that mortality, to overcome that death that looms for us all whether we're a tech billionaire or just someone who's trying to make ends meet. He promises us something that we can have lasting hope in. He promises us himself.”

#honesthumanity

“It's so human. Do you know this? God is not offended by your humanity. God is not offended by your questions and by your hurt and your pain. He is fully aware of it. He just wants you to be honest about it. He wants me to be honest about it. God's like, tell me what you feel. Tell me how you're hurting. Tell me what's frustrating with you. And David's like, are you even listening? We were doing so good and then something shifts in the narrative and we're like, what is happening? The same thing happens to you and to me. So then what does David do? Does he just go, okay, shake it off, get that out of your system, let's move back. And I think that's lazy Christianity.”

#WaitWithGod

“Waiting is relational. Waiting is humility. Waiting is going, it's your way, not my way. It's your time, not my time. It's your life. I just want you and I wanna be with you. I wanna be in pace with where you're going. We need to wait on the lord. Wherever you are right now in your pace with him, he knows and understands and he's with you and he's near to you. He just wants you to be with him. You know, some of us are so busy trying to get out of the valley of the shadow of death for the green fields that we miss that he's in both.”

#SatisfactionInSavior

“We dream and plan and prepare and save and and think about the next adventure that we're going to take, we finally get there and then we get to the last day and we wish, gosh. I think I could use, like, one or two more days. We get home, and and we're almost worse off because we're depressed that we're not on vacation anymore. There's a lot of people that are gonna be depressed next week because they're not here today. See, the reality is is that so often we we think we know what's gonna bring us this sense of peace, this sense of wholeness, completion, satisfaction. But the point and the big idea for today is that lasting satisfaction is not found in our circumstances but in our savior.”

#ThirstForGod

“And so often we can take for granted words like that in the scriptures because the idea of it is this, if you're thirsty, what do you do? You get a drink. If you're hungry, what do you do? You seek food. We we know that. It drives us. Right? There's something in us that says, I need to I need to satisfy this. I I need this. I'm willing to do whatever it takes to get this. I will find water in the middle of the desert. I will seek it out. I will satiate that need because I'm thirsty. What David is saying in the midst of his circumstances, in the midst of of hiding from from his accusers, from his from his enemy, God, I I thirst for you. I need your presence. I feel isolated or alone. I feel fearful. Whatever it is that he is feeling, it's rooted in a a desire to be in the presence of god. We're created with an inherent longing to be in union with our creator, and prayer is a step through the door to coming home to our heavenly father. David pens these words, recognizing whatever it is that's going on in his life, the first thing he needs is his connection with God, his connection with his heavenly father.”

#ExpectToMeetGod

“``How many of us walk into worship with a hardened heart? How many of us walk into church and go through the motions because that is what we do? What if we walk into Sunday morning not only expecting to meet with the Lord but knowing that we will? What if we refused to leave this place until we had a personal interaction with God, until we had met with him? This is what God wants for us not only on Sunday but every day. I struggle to make it through this part of the message without getting choked up because I believe so strongly that the Lord, the creator of heaven and earth, the one who knit you together and breathed life into your lungs, the one who gave up his life for you on a cross, desperately wants to meet with you but we are too busy thinking about lunch, the football game this afternoon, work tomorrow, the fight we had with our spouse or kids or sometimes both this morning?”

#SoulCareNotSelfCare

“``But if self is at the center, that's idolatry. That's why we call it the soul care, not self care. Ultimately, being still ultimately, peace is not the goal. The goal is the person of God. So we so we are still, the text literally means release grip. Cease striving. It's not just write this down. It's not just about inactivity. It's all about surrender God. That's be still.”

#BeStillSurrender

“``Ultimately, being still. Ultimately, peace is not the goal. The goal is the person of God. So we so we are still the text literally means release grip. Cease striving. It's not just, write this down, it's not just about inactivity. It's all about surrender God. That's be still. What does that look like in your life? We can all like binge Netflix and be still. But that doesn't fix the angst in your very soul.”

#SacrificesOfMany

“Verse 21, he says, greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you. All the saints greet you. In verse 22, You can write this down. The church moves forward. Do you know how? Not by the gifts of a few, but by the sacrifices of many. The church always moves forward in this day, in our day, for all time, not by the gifts of a few, but the sacrifices many.”

#GiveFirst

“Scripture talks about giving a tithe so it can be exactly 10%. Yeah, the church just wants my money. No. So God can have your heart. Then Colossians one fifteen, it talks about Jesus being preeminent. You know what preeminent means? First and best. For God so loved the world, John three sixteen, He gave His only Son, not His leftovers. He gave His first and His best. And we will never look more like God than we give back our first and our best sacrificially. Not the leftovers, not the tip. That goes to the waitress and God bless her. But the tithe goes to God and it's sacrificial, but it makes all the impact, all the impact.”

#PeaceInChrist

“That your life can be crazy, but for the Christian, you're not waiting for that zen moment where the crazy goes away because guess what? It's not happening. can put some essential oils into the atmosphere. You can do yoga. You can do meditation, but you won't get that kind of peace. But the peace you have is better than a peace that comes from your circumstances. It comes from Jesus Christ, a person who's with you, he's for you, who walks with you through any circumstance. And you can have that peace, and you can be grounded and anchored in that peace no matter what comes your way. Do you want that peace? Then take it to Jesus Christ.”

#DontWasteYourLife

“You'll hit the wrong bull's eye and you'll nail it. But it is not the mission of Christ. It's not the kingdom of heaven, and that will be a tragedy. And I don't want that for you. I I don't want you and I to come here every Sunday to open up God's word, to go home and take our time and our talent and our treasure and and maybe even do some good things that are not worthy of God things. But but keep trekking along because culturally, we're we go to church and we call ourselves Christians and then get to the end of life and realize we have wasted our lives.”

#HeWillTransformUs

“``The last thing is this, we waste our lives by quitting too soon. Look at verse 21. Hang on with me. Verse 21, here's where we'll wrap up. It says, Jesus will bring everything under his control. He will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body. Remember the language Paul used to talk about himself, not that I've already obtained. Hey. Yeah. I haven't taken ahold of this yet. That's how he talked about himself. That's how he talks about us. How does he talk about Jesus? He will. He will bring everything under his control. He will transform our lowly bodies. It's a statement of prophetic fact. It will happen.”

#PerfectRighteousness

“There is nothing that Jesus Christ living on this earth for thirty three years, picture this, there is nothing he should have done that was good that he failed to do. Are you kidding me right now? That's how holy Jesus Christ is. That's how righteous Jesus Christ is, and you can't get there because of your merit or your works. You have that righteous standing because of him and him alone. Who else is worthy?”

#GreatExchange

“Many times, that's how we talk about the gospel. Like, God forgave me of all of my sin. He cleansed me of all of my unrighteousness. Yes and amen. But he didn't stop there. What Paul is talking about here is what we know as the great exchange. He didn't just forgive all your debt and put it in the balance sheet as zero. He filled it up with a trillion dollars. And more than that, in the glorious riches scripture says of Christ Jesus, that now when God looks at you, he doesn't see your sin, he sees his perfect son.”

#LiveYourMission

“What is he challenging you to? What risk does he want you to take for his sake so that you're not risking getting to the finish line with nothing left and everything that you've accomplished being worthless. It's the stories that people will tell about you. It's not about your vocation, it's about your mission. It's about how God wants to use you in the midst of where you are.”

#ShineInDarkness

“That you're not meant to go looking for lights, you're not meant to blend into the darkness, you're not meant to shout at darkness. Our school Listen to me, our schools and government and culture is dark. Stop being shocked by it. What? They're teaching this in my kid's school? Of course they are, it's darkness. Your president did this? Of course, did. It's darkness. This Taylor Swift is thinking about this? Of course, he is. It's darkness. Stop shouting at it. Start shining in it.”

#WorkOutYourSalvation

“Right? We're like, I trust in God. He's my salvation. Amazing grace. Right? And some of you you see work and you see salvation. You're like, Tim, those words don't belong together. And I would tell you like Paul agrees. The the same author in the book of Ephesians, he says, you're saved by grace through what? Faith. Not of your works. Same author. So Paul agrees with you. Notice you have to let scripture interpret scripture, but you also have to read scripture. Just look at this verse again with me. It doesn't say work for your salvation. It says work out your salvation. Think about it this way, if you were at the gym and I said, hey, work out your biceps, am I telling you you don't have biceps? No. Now, they may be small. But I'm saying, hey, you have biceps.”

#JailerConversion

“and there's a jailer there who starts to take his life because he is a jailer in that day a former like Navy Seal, GI, hardcore guy with a lot of Roman pride and he knows that he failed in that moment. That all these prisoners are gonna go free, he's gonna die anyway, he starts to take his own life and Paul cries out to him and says, don't do that. Don't kill yourself. Hey, we're all still here. They're all still in the prison. They didn't leave. So the jailer who almost took his life, he goes to Paul and Silas and he's like, hey guys, why did you stay? What's this all about? And he knows they're Christians and he and he breaks down and he says, what must I do to be saved?”

#DayOfTheCross

“``But what's the worst day in history? The day we killed God on a cross. What's the best day in history? The day God gave his life for sinners like you and like me, for all of sin, past, present, future, sins of omission and commission, sins you talk about that are respectable like gossip and you say it's prayer requests, sins like lust pride that overtakes your soul. On that worst day in all of history where we killed God, he took upon all that sin where it should have been put on you for eternity in hell and he took it upon himself.”

#RememberTheMission

“Don't forget the mission. Paul's trying to get back to these people going, this reality is real. Don't forget the mission. Don't forget who you are. Don't forget what's primary and not secondary. And yes, it's hard. And yes, there's crazy stuff. But at the end of the day, our whole lives, all of our lives are all for Jesus. And that we would be one, and Paul will continue on in chapter one and into verse two or into chapter two by going by any means possible, be together.”

#PainPreaches

“``Pain preaches. When we are faithful in very difficult times, people pay attention. When my son was diagnosed with cancer, and I would talk about it, people would lean here's what they'd lean in. You know why they're leaning in? How are you doing this? Wait, wait. You and your family aren't completely falling apart, and I'm not saying we didn't have our moments, but they were paying attention to our pain. People are watching you in the circumstances that you find yourself in when it doesn't make sense and it's not working out. That's why you can't be a victim.”

#GodsWorkInYou

“And I'm sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. God has begun working in you from the moment we met, and he isn't gonna stop. He's gonna continue to change you, and transform you, and heal you, and encourage you, and empower you so that you could continue to be a part of building his kingdom. And I love being a part of that with you.”

#CommunityNotCrowd

“But here's what we're not interested in. We're not interested in a crowd filling rooms and buildings. We're interested in building a community. We're interested in helping people connect with one another because that's what we were made. That's the message of the gospel. It's the message of the book of Philippians that we would build relationships with one another founded on the reality that Jesus is alive and binding us together to continue to live that life now with one another, encouraging one another, being tender to one another, exhorting one another, challenging one another, having a community of people where we are known and we know others. That's what we want.”

#RenewYourMind

“You wanna know what the will of God for you is? Renew your mind. Be transformed by God's character, his nature, every single day, every single thought, every single feeling. See it redeemed. I promise you, he'll tell you what kind of job to get. I promise you, he'll fix your relationships. If you are transformed, metamorphosed, not just a little tweak, not just a little upgrade, not just a two point o. It's a different operating system. That's what renewal means. If you do that with your mind, heart, and soul, God will show you what his will is.”

#RenewDontConform

“That's that's the thing about lies man. They grow fast. Sometimes faster than truth and they're popping up everywhere. And you go to church one hour a week but you got a hundred and sixty seven other hours in your week. And you're gonna we talked about Romans 12, you're being conformed. If you're not renewing and being transformed, you're being conformed.”

#ResurrectionOnly

“``Now, some of you are thinking, Tim, it's Easter. Jesus beat death. Why you gotta talk about this? And I would say to you, you will never understand the magnitude of a solution unless you understand the magnitude of the problem. You think about it medically. If you have a cut, you have a boo boo, well then you need a band aid. But if you have a cold, you need something better. You need like medicine. You need antibiotics. You need allergy medicine. Praise God for allergy medicine. If you got a cut, need a band aid. Cold, you need antibiotics. You need medicine. If you have cancer, need surgery and treatment and specialists. If you are dead, you need the only thing that will suffice is the miracle of resurrection.”

#InnerVoice

“And it's not a red dude with horns and a pitchfork, and it's not a nice red suit with slicked back hair. It is a sinister small voice in our ears. Did you see what she was wearing today? Or did you see what she was wearing today? Did you see what they did last weekend? Must be nice. Does anybody recognize how important I am to this place, how much work I do around here? Does anybody ever see you? Could they imagine what life would be like if you didn't work here? Does anybody ever see you? Would anybody notice if you were gone? A sinister voice that keeps speaking in our ears to turn away from any sense of meaning, any sense of purpose, any sense of value as people being created in the image of god.”

#PassoverRedemption

“``As we think about the beginning of the story, for most people, whether you're pulling it from Matthew or Luke, this depiction of a triumphal entry. So we have the Passover, which is this tremendous, like, festival in Jewish culture in ancient Israel where they're celebrating God's really redemption, God's salvation because of the Passover during the time in Egypt where they're enslaved, and he comes and he takes their firstborn son, but with the blood of the lamb Mhmm. They are redeemed or they're rescued. Right? They're spared.”

#FollowingJesusReality

“You're supposed to make my life better. Like if I make a commitment to follow Jesus, I shouldn't have to go through anything hard. It's kind of smooth sailing. And almost every time I preach here, I say, if somebody gave you that brochure, they lied to you. If you got a brochure that said, following Jesus is easy street, they lied to you, lied. What they should have told you is what Jesus is. In this world, you're gonna suffer. But who will sign up to follow Jesus? If we don't understand this about being a Christian, we don't understand Christ. That's his life.”

#SeekChristNotRoutine

“What is this all about that we're doing here? Is this just a traditional thing? Showing up to church, doing the dance, checking it off the list. We're just reading our bibles because it's just a really good thing to do. We're praying because you should. Or is it just like, I see Jesus. I wanna follow Jesus. I wanna live for Jesus. I wanna look like Jesus. Paul says this, I just wanna know Christ. I just wanna know him in his death, in his resurrection, in his I just wanna know him. Do we have that heart?”

#SexIsBonding

“And this is what we know biblically but it's also what we know biologically. Right? We we know that when you have sex with another person, what happens is dopamine is released. Oxytocin is released. Oxytocin is a bonding agent. And this is why that outside of the covenant of marriage, outside of that fireplace, man and woman, sex with another person, enjoyment without commitment. It does one of two things. It harms a good relationship or it prolongs a bad one.”

“``But it also prolongs a bad one. Have you ever seen this? Again, I've seen it a lot. You have couples that and they they don't connect, they don't communicate, they don't have chemistry, but they have a lot of conflict. But then they have sex. And so they have a lot of perceived connection. Go back to the fire analogy. They've put lighter fluid on the fire. Listen, lighter fluid can like flame that bad boy up. It it can be intense. It can be emotional. It can be exciting. But lighter fluid doesn't keep a fire lit.”

#TrustJesus

“You don't even have to trust your spouse, but you do have to trust God. And do you trust Jesus Christ? Let me tell you, you can trust him. He gave his life for you when you were in conflict with him of no merit of your own. He reunite reunites you in a loving, right, holy relationship with him. I'm not inviting you to trust me, trust this process, even trust your spouse, but I am inviting you to trust God.”

#CovenantLoveHeals

“``We mourn because we love, and when we love, we're vulnerable, and when we're vulnerable, we get hurt. But God is a God of love, and he has called us to love one another. Therefore, he knows we're vulnerable. We he knows we will be hurt, and he knows we will we will mourn, and so he has chosen to empower us with the Holy Spirit in a special way when we continue to trust him and believe him in spite of the things that break our hearts. Does that make sense? It's the covenant love of God.”

#DeepRootsBeforeSex

“``And you know what? I was upset and Christina was upset, but now I'm really glad. I'm really, really glad because we're all vulnerable, we're all weak, and we can all give in. And premature sexual union diminishes the roots that God wants to be really deep in your soul, so you learn how to pray together, you learn how to be vulnerable together, you learn how to play together, you develop all the other interests that's gonna help you like each other for the rest of your life. And then when you do have a sexual union, you will have the rest of your life without any shame or guilt about how you started. It's a really big deal.”

#MarriageIsntTheFinishLine

“``Don't see marriage as the finish line. Sometimes in church we can just talk to married couples and in a sermon like this we can be like, man, if you could just find a spouse, check that off the list and like you're good. And I would say dating, marriage not the finish line, Jesus is. As you look at the book of Song of Songs, many people will say, hey, it's talking about relationships but it's also talking about our ultimate relationship with Jesus and his bride, the church. And I would say, yes and amen.”

#FulfilledInChrist

“``And you can get your horizontal relationship right. You can crush it with a spouse and be lost without a savior. We're gonna sing a song of what a god, not what a man, not what a woman, what a god. And it has this line that just stuck out to me all week. It says, no treasure of this life can satisfy. Don't look over here for someone to fulfill you. Look up here to Jesus Christ to be fulfilled, and then be freed up to enter into this dating process with Jesus Christ as your security, your identity, your eternity. That's where this thing starts. Let's pray. Father in heaven,”

#MarriageIsHard

“``And then one of the most important things I want you to know church today is marriage and relationships are hard. Some of you are feeling that right now. You're like, Tim, I've tanked it in this. As a man, as a woman, the whole thing, they're hard. And it's because anything that God wants to build, Satan wants to destroy. And you know what breaks that? That stronghold, you know what brings healing? Is confession. Is forgiveness, is repentance. You wanna get on the offensive?”

#HonestAboutInsecurities

“It had everything to do with these suppressed insecurities of I don't think I'm enough for you. And what we had to learn and we we had to learn with community and with counseling is that it's okay to be honest about your insecurities. We we say it this way, God can't love the person you're pretending to be. Ladies, neither can your husband because that person does not exist.”

#LeadByServing

“``But we lead by serving. Philippians chapter two, Jesus Christ, the son of God with all authority at the right hand of the father, He comes to the earth, what does he do? He empties himself. He leads like a humble servant all the way to death on a cross. Men are called to lead. Men are called to lead And I think we gotta reframe that because again, many of us, we think about that and we get a tick in our neck and we're so afraid of this whole conversation while our world is struggling, while our women and our children are struggling and while men are being passive and watching it happen.”

#NameIsReputation

“``That's smell and in the Hebrew it equates this whole idea with oils and fragrances and smells with your name. Your anointing oils are fragrant, your name is like an oil poured out. So in that culture and today, your name is your reputation, your name is your integrity, your character and for men it's like a smell, it's like a fragrance.”