Triangle Family Church Sunday Service on Nov. 30, 2025
Music Offering
Sermon - Let’s Talk about Love
In this heartfelt and insightful talk, the speaker explores the essential role of love and relationships in achieving happiness and fulfillment in life. Beginning with a warm holiday greeting, the speaker introduces the central theme: relationships, framed through a creative metaphor called the “theory of warm and cold water.” This theory illustrates how the quality of our interactions—whether harsh and cold or kind and warm—directly impacts the health and longevity of our relationships. Drawing from personal experiences, spiritual teachings, and scientific studies, the speaker emphasizes that beyond basic survival needs like food, shelter, and technology, meaningful relationships are fundamental to human happiness. The talk references the Divine Principle, highlighting the spiritual goal of attaining happiness and avoiding misfortune through harmonious relationships with both God and others. Through a story of professional struggle and recovery, the speaker demonstrates how warm water—expressed as kindness, affirmation, and love as action—can revive and nurture relationships, leading to personal and communal flourishing. The message concludes with an encouragement to practice warm water in relationships, especially during the holiday season, to foster joy, healing, and connection.
Highlights
- Introduction of the “theory of warm and cold water” as a metaphor for relationships.
- Recognition of technology and internet as essential modern life needs, but emphasizing relationships as more vital.
- Explanation of the Divine Principle’s focus on attaining happiness and avoiding misfortune.
- Reference to Harvard’s 30-year study confirming that meaningful relationships are key to long-term happiness.
- Definition of “cold water” as harsh treatment that harms relationships and “warm water” as kind, affirming actions that nurture them.
- Story of a young man’s failure in a harsh work environment illustrating cold water effects.
- Story of the same man thriving in a warm, supportive environment demonstrating the power of warm water.
