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No one stands before their friends and family in a white dress or black suit and dreams of the day when their marriage will be over. Unfortunately, it happens to millions of people every year. So what do we do when the relationship we once cultivated has been relegated to the wood pile?

What do you do when your marriage is dying?

Just a tree needs to be watered and pruned and fertilized, even the best of marriages need to be regularly maintained.

The secret to cultivating a thriving marriage is that you must start long before the marriage ceremony.

If you are in Christ – you are a new creation.

The rich young ruler and Zacchaeus had something in common: they both wanted salvation. One got to hear "salvation has come to you today" and the other heard "it's so hard for a rich person to get into heaven." Why did they hear such contrasting responses from Jesus?

In Luke chapter 12, Jesus gives us a stark warning about building bigger barns. Where are you storing your treasure?

Jesus continues to make the connection between our money and our hearts with this parable in Luke chapter 16. The shrewd manager leverages the resources he has available to him to invest in his future home, and is commended by his master. What can the church learn from this? How can we leverage our resources to invest in eternal dwellings?

In his sermon on the mount, Jesus makes it very clear that we will store up treasure somewhere. The act of storing treasure isn’t condemned, but we should pay close attention to the location in which the treasure is stored. Jesus makes a concise statement, “where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” So the question is, as Christians, where are we storing up our treasure? On earth or in Heaven? It’s gotta be one or the other.

In a world where sex outside of marriage was expected for all men, the early Christian ethic of sex only between a husband and a wife was counter-cultural. The early disciples also saw sexuality as an equal gift and responsibility to both husbands and wives. The needs of women were never taken into consideration like this before. Early disciples saw sex, not just as a physical activity, but a spiritual one as well.