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Marriage: A living Image of God to the World

Marriage: A living Image of God to the World

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Sunday Service: December 7, 2025 • Guest Preacher, Pastor Carlos Reyes at HOPE Church in Clarksville, MD ---

Pastor Carlos’ sermon centered on the conviction that marriage is sacred, difficult, and designed by God to reflect His image, beginning with the creation of male and female as “one.” He warned that modern culture—through declining marriage rates, cohabitation, sexual permissiveness, and shifting gender norms—pulls people away from Scripture’s vision, making marriage seem optional or secondary. Drawing on his own 50 years of marriage, he emphasized that faithfulness, patience, character, and covenant love (not romance or convenience) are the heart of a godly union. He urged men to lead with integrity, women to embrace their God-given role as helpers, and young people to honor sexuality within marriage and resist cultural pressures. PC emphasizes that marriage requires hard work, spiritual grounding, and reliance on the Holy Spirit, but that when couples pursue it God’s way, their union becomes a testimony, a legacy, and a living image of God to the world.

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