Stop Running

Swiss Cove Christian Church · Jul 5, 2026

If marriage has ever exposed a wound you thought you'd already dealt with, you're not alone — and you're not the first. In "Stop Running," the opening message in our new series, Love and Marriage, Elliott looks at the story of Jacob in Genesis 32:22-32, the night he wrestled with God at the Jabbok River and walked away with a limp and a new name. Jacob spent his whole life running — from his brother, from his father-in-law, from the consequences of his own choices. Marriage doesn't erase what we're running from; it exposes it. The patterns, the anger, the old wounds we thought we'd left…