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He Shouldn’t Be So Interested in Sex

August 20th, 2009

Today’s topic is “He Shouldn’t Be So Interested in Sex.”  Talk about different thinking today, boys and girls!  Now this is a big difference for men and women, when it comes to this area.  One of my big beefs about the whole marriage ministry today, and marriage seminars and everything, is that it basically takes the tack that women are wonderful, great, and normal… and that men are pigs and there is something wrong with us.

I contend that men are the way they are ’cause God made them that way on purpose.  We are not sick, twisted, broken perverts.  We’re just men.  All right?!  In no other area is this great divide in existence than when it comes to this whole area about sex.
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If I Stay, He Will Change

August 13th, 2009

Well, today’s subject is kind of a hot-topic subject, and I’m gonna really need for you to pay attention to what we’re saying. What we’re going to talk about today is going to sound, in many ways, like it totally contradicts everything we’ve told you to date about your relationships. This has to do with what happens if you’re in a relationship with someone who’s behaving really, really badly. This can be either male or female, but generally speaking, it’s when men behave extremely badly, and women don’t know what to do.
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I Have to be Honest with My Feelings

July 23rd, 2009

Today’s stinking thinking is “I have to be honest with my feelings.” Usually we run some footage of Ross interviewing people and getting some of these ridiculous comments, but there are some comments that are so dumb, it’s even hard to find regular people who even think this way. That’s the case with today’s show. Oddly enough, this is a biggie though, when people really get themselves in trouble. When they want to start bailing, when they want to start being irresponsible, they go to this idea, “Well, I have to be honest with my feelings. I know it’s wrong, I just know it’s cruel. I know it’s mean, and I know I’m a big, fat, stinking jerk, but I gotta be honest with my feelings.”
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God Wants Me to Be Happy

March 31st, 2009

Now it’s not that I’m against being happy. I do believe God wants people to be happy, but not to the point that it overcomes the right thing to do. Sadly, we’re living in a culture today that people literally determine what they’re going to do based on whether or not it makes them happy, and I’m talking about Christian people. I understand people without God in their lives thinking in these terms and even that’s ridiculous. But Christian people who literally think that what they’re going to do – my standard for life, what I decide to do, whether or not I keep my commitments and do whatever I’m supposed to do – is based on whether or not God wants me to be happy.
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Don’t Marry Too Young – Part 2

March 24th, 2009

This episode is a continuation from last week’s Don’t Marry Too Young, battling the modern thinking that people should wait until their 30s to get married.

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Don’t Marry Too Young – Part 1

March 17th, 2009

Let me talk to you a little bit about what is really fundamentally problematic here. It’s for some bizarre reason, when people’s relationships fail, they all seem to go back to the beginning as an excuse for why they failed. You know, “why did my relationship fail?” Well, because we were too young, or we didn’t have enough money, or we were too stupid, or just whatever. “We didn’t know each other well enough.” But it’s all bogus. I do not think some people are going along, happily married, and then they go: “Wait a minute! We were too young, let’s end it.” It has nothing to do with the beginning. That’s what everybody does. They’ll always run back and explain the beginning.

Marriage is not like that, marriage is a race. I like to use the analogy for a race. There are two kinds of races. There are sprints, and there are marathons. In a sprint, the most important part of the sprint is the start. You’ve got to get the start right. That’s why these cats are down, they’re in those blocks, and they’re practicing coming out of those things over and over again. Why? Because if you don’t start just right in a sprint, it’s over. You’re doomed, you’ll never make it. All right? Then there’s the marathon. Now in the marathon, the start is not nearly so important. In fact, you look at these guys, they’re all standing around scratching their armpits and just waiting for something to happen, right? At the beginning of the marathon, you can fall down, have six guys run over your head, get up, and you can still win. Because it’s not about the start. It’s about the continued running, and running, and running, and being consistent. That’s what marriage is like. In fact, a marathon is a great analogy because runners will tell you that in a marathon, they run until they think they’re gonna die. Then they get a second wind and think they’re gonna die. Then they get a second wind and think they’re gonna go to heaven. Then they think they’re gonna die. Then they’re gonna go to heaven. That’s marriage for you, right there.

One of the common things that people use as an excuse about why marriage fail is this idea of marrying too young.

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It’s Important to Find Your Soulmate

March 12th, 2009

Of all the stinking thinking that we deal with in marriage and romance today, I believe this is one of the worst. The idea that there is one cosmic being made just for you. Now, this idea of soulmate comes from Greek mythology. At one time, the Greeks believed that we had four arms and four legs, and apparently there is some debate as to whether or not we had two heads or one head with two faces. But you basically get the idea: we looked like cockroaches. Apparently, we made some god very angry along the way, and as part of our punishment, he split mankind in half. That’s how we wound up with just one face, two arms, and two legs. Our punishment now, is to seek across the universe to try and find that other half. That’s where this whole idea came from. Now you would think, as Christians, we’d be a little smarter than this, but no. What we’ve done is taken that ridiculous Pagan concept, and we’ve spiritualized it. We’ve come up with the idea that God has created one special person just for me. Let me see if I understand this. What we’re saying is God Almighty created another human being just to make you happy. If this is not the epitome of self-centered, narcissistic thinking, I do not know what is. This is the hot topic item we’re gonna be discussing on today’s show: the whole idea about soulmates.

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It’s Impossible to Make Women Happy

March 3rd, 2009

Today is a very important program, so if you’re watching at home, hit the TiVo, man. You gotta record this show, because I’m about to show you that it is not impossible to make women happy. I’m gonna talk to you and show you what it is that women want. Now this is a big deal, because for thousands of years, men have wanted to know, “what is it that women want?” This is a big deal because most women don’t know what it is that they want! They just know that they want something, and it seems impossible for them to communicate it to their husbands in a way that they understand. Hence everybody gets a sense that maybe you just can’t do it, you can’t make ‘em happy. But you can, because what women want is very simple, and it boils down to this:
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If He Really Loved Me, He’d Know What I Want

February 24th, 2009

I’m Mark Gungor and welcome to Love, Marriage, and Stinking Thinking. The program that takes on the common myths concerning life, love, and marriage. Now, this show examines the way men and women think. Hence, the two brains up here. This is very important, because we often get ourselves in big trouble because men and women think very differently. And we’re very quick to make into heart problems what are essentially head problems. In other words, a man acts and thinks in a certain way, a woman doesn’t understand it, and she assumes he has a bad heart. It’s not his heart, it’s his head. Okay? And the same problem the other way, all right? So anyway, let’s get to today’s stinking thinking.

“If he really loved me, he’d know what I want.” Yeah, I don’t think so.
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He Must Be Thinking About Something

February 18th, 2009

In this episode we examine the common myth about the way men think, specifically, is it possible for a man to think about absolutely nothing?

We sent Ross, our 33 year old intern out into the street back in my hometown of Green Bay, Wisconsin to talk to some people, here are some of the responses he got to this question.
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