Welcome to the Paul Tripp podcast, where pastor and best-selling author, Dr. Paul David Tripp,

connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

In today's episode, you'll get to listen to a session from Paul's 2019 marriage conference,

Habits of a Healthy Marriage.

If you want more content like this from Paul on Marriage, you'll want to stream

the Marriage of Your Dreams, his 2020 marriage conference.

Check the episode notes for a link to stream the event.

Here's Paul, teaching you how to develop healthy habits in your marriage.

What we want to spend the rest of our time together

in the three sessions that we have,

looking at three habits to nail into your marriage that have the possibility of radically changing that relationship.

Three habits.

I want to introduce the first habit this way.

When our children were still at home and quite young,

we decided to have a vegetable garden.

And I rented a roller tiller,

and we tilled the soil,

and we pulled all the rocks out of it because we were in

northeastern Pennsylvania and the earth is more rock than dirt. And we made furrows and invited

the children out to put those seeds down those furrows that we had made.

And then I showed them with their hands how to cover up those, those seeds.

And then they took turns watering them. They were very excited.

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