Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

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Welcome back to Verity Podcast, you guys. We are in the middle of our honest marriage series

and myself and my husband, Josh, who are both here sharing a real life look into our relationship,

our story, and applying scripture to it. And hopefully by sharing our story and what we've learned

in our eight years, almost of being married, some of you are encouraged and perhaps are able to

implement some of the things that have worked for us in your own relationship.

Today's episode is about fighting, not just any fighting, but good fighting.

Yes, we want to be able to fight well and to communicate through the disagreements that we have.

And so the passage that we're going to be reading from today is Colossians 12 through 14,

which says put on then as guys chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassion, kindness, humility,

meekness, and patience, bearing with one another. And if one has a complaint against another,

forgiving each other, as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these

put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.

So this passage gives us a glimpse of what Christians are called to exude as Christian behavior.

But what we know most of all is that this behavior is rooted in identity in Christ. So the very

first verse says, you are God's chosen ones, holy and beloved. And that identity undergirds all

of these spirit-led behaviors. And of course, if they're called of all Christians, that means

they're called of us in marriage too. So we wanted to talk in this episode, like Josh said,

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