Matt Chandler – Mingling of Souls
14 Feb 2012 3 Comments
This is session 1 from the series – An updated teaching of Song of Solomon by Matt Chandler via The Hub on Vimeo. Matt Chandler is the Pastor of the Village Church in Highland Village, Texas. Points from the series:
Matt:
- I’ll never deny that the physical attraction between a man and a woman is an important deal but, it can’t stop there. It has to very, very, very, very, very quickly move past physical attraction.
- I don’t think you have any business dating if you don’t know what you want and you haven’t defined what you’re looking for and haven’t defined what you’re willing to wait on.
- We’ve been called by God, as husbands, to love our wife like Christ loved the Church. That means, we love her, regardless of her response to those things. It’s the hardest thing in marriage, by far… by far, because as men we want to love to get something in return.
- Never speak rashly to your mate. Never touch your mate in anger. Never embarrass your mate publicly. Never argue in front of your kids or use the kids to win an argument. Never mention the in-laws. Never get historical.
- I think the only way to become an expert on your spouse is to listen. To actually listen to what they say.
You can buy, rent or preview the entire DVD set at http://gotothehub.com/ Note: some blunt words used in the first 5 minutes introduction of the creation of man and woman.
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C. S. Lewis on the Danger of Love from Desiring God
14 Feb 2012 1 Comment
in John Piper Tags: C S Lewis, Desiring God, The Four Loves
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Jonathan Parnell writes -
If you were having a cup of tea with C. S. Lewis on Valentine’s Day, and you asked him sincerely, “Mr. Lewis, am I better not to love because it’s so risky?” — he might say something like this:
Of all arguments against love none makes so strong an appeal to my nature as “Careful! This might lead you to suffering.”
To my nature, my temperament, yes. Not to my conscience. When I respond to that appeal I seem to myself to be a thousand miles away from Christ. If I am sure of anything I am sure that his teaching was never meant to confirm my congenital preference for safe investments and limited liabilities.…
There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.
But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. The alternative to tragedy, or at least to the risk of tragedy, is damnation. The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell.
The Four Loves, (New York, Harcourt, 1960)
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