In marriage, God calls spouses to lay aside their self-serving expectations of comfort and preferment and embrace Christ's cross-like calling to love and prefer one another above themselves. This sermon examines the duty and means for achieving it.

The Bible supplies us with a number of marital foundations which we considered last time. In this sermon, we're going to explore how these foundations are sometimes undermined and in some cases irrevocably broken. But it's not all bad news. We're also going to see the hope that available to all who rest in God's grace, power and victory in Christ.

In this introductory sermon, we consider God's original design for marriage, as the lifelong union of a man and a woman. In spite of the difficulties of matrimony in a post-fall world, we'll see the truth of God's words, "it is not good for man to be alone."