Raising Arrows, Not Boomerangs

Deuteronomy 6:4–9, Psalm 127: 1-5

1. Children Belong to God Before They Belong to Us.

2. Parents Must Love God Before They Can Lead Children Toward God.

3. Parenting Is Formation, Not Mere Information.

Single, Not Stalled

1 Corinthians 7:6–9, 25–35

1. Being Single is honored in the New Testament.

2. Being Single can be an advantage for mission.

Singleness is not life on hold. In Christ, singleness can be life on mission.

3. Being single requires Spirit-filled discipline.

“For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you keep away from sexual immorality, that each of you knows how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not with lustful passions, like the Gentiles, who don’t know God.”

1 Thessalonians 4:3–5, CSB

“Guard your heart above all else, for it is the source of life.”

Proverbs 4:23, CSB

4. Being Single requires deep community.

“‘Who are my mother and my brothers?’ he asked them. Looking at those sitting in a circle around him, he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.’”

Mark 3:33–35, CSB

5. Being Single requires wise desire, not cynical despair.

Vintage, Not Outdated

Ephesians 5:22–31; 1 Peter 3:1–7

Dr. Bob McCartney, Senior Pastor • May 24, 2026

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God’s design is better than culture’s experiment.

1. A Word for the Wise Wife: Respectful Submission

“Wives, submit yourselves to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.”

Colossians 3:18, CSB

so that they may encourage the young women to love their husbands and to love their children, to be self-controlled, pure, workers at home, kind, and in submission to their husbands, so that God’s word will not be slandered.

Titus 2:4-5 CSB

a. Submission is not inferiority

“There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male and female; since you are all one in Christ Jesus.”

Galatians 3:28, CSB

b. Submission is not silence

c. Submission is spiritual beauty

d. Submission is ultimately unto the Lord

2. A Message for the Modern Man: Sacrificial love

a. A husband’s love is sacrificial

b. A husband’s love is sanctifying

c. A husband’s love is sensitive

d. A husband’s love is nourishing and cherishing

“To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.”

Ephesians 5:33, CSB

e. A husband’s love honors

3. But How?

a. Stop saying, “They started it.”

b. Obey your command, not your spouse’s command.

c. Replace reaction with obedience.

d. Speak your spouse’s God-given language.

e. Remember marriage requires the gospel.