This teaching was subtitled “Looking for the heart of Saturday night” and emphasized throughout the need we have to keep that sweetness and unity and companionship that Christian marriage is designed by God to provide. Included are a number of warnings about things that can threaten that unity and mutual care one of another, as well as practical ways from God’s Word to avoid that happening or how to recover it if it has been lost. Because we have God’s Word and God’s love available to us, we can continue to change as life and marriage change, overcome obstacles, and enjoy the intimacy and fellowship of the marriage relationship.

In the first part of this teaching, Rev. Armstrong sets God’s heart for marriage and the importance of following His design for it instead of the world’s. He covers how the marriage relationship is to be a living example of the Great Mystery in action, with the husband and wife’s roles being different but complementary, just as it is with the members of the Body of Christ. In the second part, he covers three things that can ruin a marriage: anger, lack of forgiveness and selfishness; and then three things that can bless a marriage: edifying words, kindness and unconditional love.

This teaching is from the 2025 Northern Area Pentecost Picnic.
God works with imperfect people. This teaching looks at the events of the Day of Pentecost recorded in Acts, Chapter 2 and at Peter who spoke on that day. We are shown in the Gospels how Peter made plenty of mistakes and would at times be fearful or react emotionally to situations. However, he spoke the right words on the day of Pentecost as God worked in him via the holy spirit that he received. God will work with imperfect people like us as well.

This teaching is from the 2025 Central Area Pentecost Picnic.
We look at how God isn’t looking for perfect people, He is looking for those who will believe. We cannot earn all of things that we have been given, and God doesn’t call people by mistake. The teacher emphasizes how our pasts don’t matter to God and aren’t up for discussion by others or by ourselves. We are instructed that, since God has forgiven us, we are to forgive now. God has called us to be His family for eternity.
After the teaching, the song “On My Way” by the Harbor Light Fellowship Band is played.

We have been called by God to be His sons and, as we walk in this world, people are watching our example. Whether we want them to or not and whether we recognize it or not, we make an impression on others. In order for others to understand who God is and what Jesus Christ has made available, we want to imitate many of the characteristics of our Heavenly Father, above all by walking in His love. Being the examples we’ve been called to be involves remembering and believing who we are and what we have because of Christ, manifesting the truth of God’s Word by walking out on it and holding it forth.

After tracing some of the different words for “walking” in the Bible and seeing what they can tell us about walking with God, this teaching goes on to look at a number of principles for walking spiritually using examples from God’s Word and the teacher’s own life. Records of believers such as Enoch, Noah, Hannah, David, Moses, and Jesus Christ are used to illustrate how we can walk in fellowship, alignment, and partnership with God. Some of the keys covered are the need to trust God; the importance of faithfulness; the role of prayer; the requirement to not care what others think but only what God’s will is; the place of selflessness, humility, and obedience; the necessity of operating the manifestations; and the place that waiting on God holds.