Hello everyone and welcome to Pastor Rick's Daily Hope, the Bible teaching ministry that's here to

encourage and inspire you every day. And today we're continuing our series called Awesome Relationships.

In it, Rick Warren shares practical ways to help you take your relationships with family, friends,

coworkers, and even God, from ordinary to extraordinary.

And this is a series you don't want to miss.

Well, let's get started today with part three of a message called Fighting for an Awesome

Marriage.

It really doesn't matter what other people think about marriage.

It doesn't matter what public opinion says.

It doesn't matter what the opinion polls say.

It doesn't matter what's politically correct or incorrect.

What really matters is what God says who invented marriage.

And you're going to live in a culture where this is absolutely counterculture.

You now live in a culture that is forgotten why marriage matters.

You live in a culture that does not honor it, but actually demeans it, discourages it,

ridicules it, redefines it, dismiss it and on and on and as a result

we could see what's happening in society we now have people who go to Las Vegas get drunk and in a

spontaneous moment go to wedding chapel get married and 24 hours later get divorced because

it's no big deal it's just a social contract we have

celebrities who spend a full year and millions and millions and millions of

dollars on a wedding and the preparation for the wedding lasts longer than the

marriage we have people going from one relationship to the next, to the next, in serial marriages.

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