February 10th, 2009
Now usually at this point, we go out into the everyday streets and we show you just the everyday people commenting on this subject, but this is one of these things that we couldn’t even find anybody who thought like this among the pagans. This is almost an exclusively religious stupid thinking, that true love gives, without expecting anything in return. We’ve heard this for years and years and years from preachers. This is the way God thinks, and this is the way people should think, and this is the way men should think, but it is not solid, it is not true, it is not biblical, and I’ll show you that in just a little bit as we talk about this. I often talk to women about how they need to motivate their husbands and how to get stuff out of them instead of sitting around waiting and crying and wishing he’d be like a girl and just give all by himself. That they need to reach out and take stuff from him.
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January 30th, 2009
What we’re gonna be doing is we’re gonna be talking about how men and women think about relationships in this country today and the way the church thinks about relationships in this country. One of the biggest problems that we’re having today is instead of us, as people of faith, affecting our culture, we have allowed our culture to affect, or infect, us. The Bible says that we need to be transformed. Don’t be conformed, Paul said. Don’t let the world put you in its mold. We need to be transformed. How? By the changing of your mind. We gotta change the way we think, and the truth of the matter is, we are suffering from stinking thinking. In no greater area do we suffer from stinking thinking than when it comes to this idea of love and marriage. We have over-spiritualized it. We have over-romanticized it. You know? The realities, the relationships between men and women are pretty simple. It’s basic truth.
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