Cornerstone Community Church, San Jose Ca

Let me remind you of the top five causes of marital conflict and see if you have experienced any of them in your family. Here they are: (1) communication -- either lack of communication or miscommunication; (2) in--laws; (3) sex; (4) money; and (5) issues relating to children. For those of you who have been married, do any of them sound like familiar topics of discussion? If you don't want to think about your own conflicts, just watch any episode of the TV show "Modern Family" and you'll see how quickly conflict can erupt and how disruptive it can be. Of course the show is a comedy, so they manage to make their conflicts all seem pretty humorous. But when you're in the middle of a family fight, it doesn't feel a bit funny, does it? Sure, now I can laugh about how Brenda recently took advantage of my weakened physical condition to give a bunch of my favorite sweaters to Goodwill -- sweaters you have come to expect me to wear on Sunday mornings but will now be deprived of -- but as you can imagine it was