Husbands, love your wives!!

One thing that has become very important to me is that men start acting like men.  I taught on this last fall in our "God Created them Male and Female: WHY?" message series and still feel this is such an important biblical concept to understand and apply in God's design.  We have way too much confusion going on in homes with men who won't take the intiative to really put on their cleats and get dirty to get in the game with their wives and children.  Men, lead out in loving, and not dominating ways.  Love your wives!

With that said, it is extremely humorous to think about how relationship can and do go south when either person tries to dominate the other.  For an example:

(Ephesians 5:22-33, NIV)
22 Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Saviour. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her 26 to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. 28 In this same way, husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. 29 After all, no-one ever hated his own body, but he feeds and cares for it, just as Christ does the church-- 30 for we are members of his body. 31 “For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.” 32 This is a profound mystery--but I am talking about Christ and the church. 33 However, each one of you also must love his wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.