How To Die // Seth Owens // CDA Campus

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Seth Owens argues the number one cause of divorce is not sex or money but self-worship, and that adultery ends fewer marriages than idolatry.

Seth starts close to home. Before the sermon, he gives church family news about two newly confirmed elders and names the gathering as a people sitting under the living Word of God. Then Philippians 2 takes over. The passage becomes a mirror, especially for the moment when a believer reads Scripture and realizes they disagree with God. Seth presses the difference between being a follower with allegiance and being a fan with affection. It gets personal fast. He remembers a season when he felt the Lord correcting how he had been treating his wife, and marriage becomes the place where the sermon stops being abstract. He is careful to say Philippians 2 is not mainly a marriage passage. Still, it teaches believers to count one another as more significant, which is exactly where the dying starts. This is not the easy joke about marriage ending freedom. It is the slower, harder death of selfish thought and conduct. Seth keeps coming back to that spot. Being right does not mean being whole. Protecting your own stash can be its own refusal to lay something down. He sounds like a pastor more than a lecturer: direct, warm, and sometimes bracing, with Scripture carrying more weight than polish. The altar call stays practical. If God is tugging on a marriage, a hidden refusal, or any other place of surrender, Seth asks people not to leave without prayer. The closing sends the church out with affection, peace, and a plain invitation to lay down what God has named.

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A marriage sermon that treats humility as surrender, not sentiment.

This sermon stays close to Philippians 2 and keeps pulling the point back to ordinary obedience, especially in marriage. Seth starts with church-family updates, then moves into a plain challenge about humility, allegiance, and what it means to let personal preference lose its…

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You want a blunt sermon about marriage, pride, and dying to self.

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