{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Harmonious Matrimonious","description":"Episode Notes   Happy Pentecost Sunday!   Communication is key to any good marriage.    As husbands, how do we conduct ourselves as a loving servant, without becoming a doormat?   Look to Jesus as our guide for how to serve those we love.  \u201cSo, during supper, fully aware that the Father had put everything into his power and that he had come from God and was returning to God, he rose from supper and took off his outer garments. He took a towel and tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples\u2019 feet and dry them with the towel around his waist.  He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, \u201cMaster, are you going to wash my feet?\u2019 Jesus answered and said to him, \u2018What I am doing, you do not understand now, but you will understand later.\u2019 Peter said to him, \u2018You will never wash my feet.\u2019 Jesus answered him, \u2018Unless I wash you, you will have no inheritance with me.\u2019 Simon Peter said to him, \u2018Master, then not only my feet, but my hands and head as well.\u2019 Jesus said to him, \u2018Whoever has bathed has no need except to have his feet washed, for he is clean all over; so you are clean, but not all.\u2019 For he knew who would betray him; for this reason, he said, \u2018Not all of you are clean.\u2019  So when he had washed their feet and put his garments back on and reclined at table again, he said to them, \u2018Do you realize what I have done for you? You call me \u2018teacher\u201d and \u2018master,\u2019 and rightly so, for indeed I am. If I, therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash one another\u2019s feet.  I have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you should do also.  Amen, amen, I say to you, no slave is greater than his master nor any messenger greater than the one who sent him.  If you understand this, blessed are you if you do it.\u201d John 13: 2-17   Who do we serve; ourselves, or our loved ones whom God has placed in our care?   Are we using household chores as a means to escape from the more important tasks God has placed in front of you?   "When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things." 1 Corinthians 13:11 ","author_name":"Laymentality","author_url":"http:\/\/laymentality.libsyn.com\/website","html":"