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This culture is not going to tell you how to have a successful marriage,

so we want to build our marriage on our relationship with God.

Culture seems to celebrate departures from God's plan for the family.

Coming up today, Pastor Greg Lawry comments,

this is the day when life begins.

Scour the TV listings from front to back and you'll have a hard time finding a series that

extolls the virtues of traditional families. Long gone are the father-nosed best kinds of TV shows.

Yet the influence of media on the home is at an all-time high.

Art does animate life, it dictates trends, pushes an agenda.

Today on a new beginning, Pastor Greg Lawry helps us get back to God's plan for the home,

a plan for the family that he designed when he designed the family.

I'd like to take a quick poll. How many of you here today are married? Raise up your hand.

Your married or kids? Quite a few of you. Wow.

How many of you are happily married? Raise up your hand. Not quite as many hands that concerns me.

How many of you are single? Raise up your hand. How many of you are happily single?

You like being single. How about this? You never want to be married. Raise your hand up.

How many of you are unhappily single? You want to be married one day.

You want to be married one. Don't be embarrassed.

All right, would all of you stand up, please?

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