Go deeper with others.

For the next three Sundays we’ll be celebrating what God has done this year through our “Be Full” missions program – i.e., the things that we as a church do for those outside of our church family, both “Across the Street and Around the World,” to show and tell them about the love of Jesus. We believe that when churches are healthy they should make a difference in their community and in the world, so we’ll spend the next three weeks hearing stories of how God has used our church’s generosity to do just that.

We’re wrapping up our series on “the four promises of fulfilling relationships.” So far, we’ve looked at the Promise of the Future, the Promise of “Over-underreacting,” and the Promise of Fulfillment. Today, we finish up with something we all need to wrestle with to fully enjoy God’s promise of a full life: unpacking the baggage and healing the wounds that can so easily sabotage our relationships.

We’re in the third week of our series on marriage, but in any healthy church (including ours) somewhere around half of those in attendance aren’t married. So this week we’re going to talk about what the Bible has to say about dating – which, technically, is nothing, but it has much to say about how to navigate life wisely, including great advice (by application) about whom and how we should date. Much of that wisdom is captured in the book of Proverbs – short, simple, practical sayings guiding us to a full life.