The Top 4 Singles Sermons
Are you feeling down about being single over the age of 30? Do you need not just a glib pick-me-up but encouragement that affirms you are a valuable person as a single Christian? These 4 sermons are the cream of the crop!
What I love about these 4 sermons is they acknowledge the difficulty in being unintentionally single at an older age, yet they don't allow you to wallow in self-pity. And even though almost all promote the idea that singleness and marriage are both gifts (an interpretation of 1 Corinthians 7 that I don't agree with), I can't help but to say a hearty "Amen!" to the truths these pastors are putting down.
Whether you believe singleness is a gift of status or ability, you can't deny the obligation we singles have to live our lives in a way that honors the Lord and benefits the church while we are single (even as we are hoping, praying, and looking for marriage).
Click on the link below to each sermon and enjoy!
#4 "Singles" by Matt Chandler
“I want to…call you out of any holding pattern that you might be in. If you’re a single here and you’re like ‘…I’ve got this real desire…to start this ministry, to do this kind of discipleship, to begin to lead out of my passion, but I’ve got to wait until I find my spouse before I can give myself over to that’……I want to call you out. You start to lead us. If God’s put a passion in your soul, a passion in your heart…..you need not a spouse to be a leader. If that’s the case, we’ve got to take out a whole slew of ferocious men and women of God in our Bible.”
#3 "Living for the Lord When You Are Not Married" by Kevin DeYoung
“He
(God) has you single so you can serve Him with reckless abandon.”
#2 "A Theology of Singleness" by Tim Keller
“Marriage
can never give you all the things that you really are looking for. It’s only in Jesus’s arms that you’ll ever
find what you’re really looking for in a spouse.”
#1 "Single In Christ: A Name Better Than Sons and Daughters" by John Piper
“I’m
declaring the temporary and secondary nature of marriage and family over against
the primary and eternal nature of the family of God.”
