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 this episode, we'll listen to an interview Paul had on the Crossway podcast about how the gospel comes to bear on the day-to-day realities of marriage and why that's more than just a platitude.

Here's Paul from his interview on the Crossway podcast.

Well, Paul, thank you so much for joining me today on the Crossway podcast.

Oh, it's my pleasure to be with you.

So how long have you and your wife, Luella, been married?

So it's hard for me to imagine that this is true, but this year, 2021, we will celebrate 50 years

of marriage. Wow, 50 years. I look back on that and I think how good God has been in his presence and grace and wisdom to us,

I asked Luella to marry me at 17.

I think I knew little about love, little about relationships, little about the depth and glory of God's grace, hadn't really understood the practical nature of God's wisdom in Scripture.

And so we feel incredibly blessed.

We were engaged for three years, and I was 20 when we got married.

And we are not marriage heroes.

Lowell and I are not marriage experts.

We are the products of incalculable grace. Lowell and I are not marriage experts.

We are the products of incalculable grace and wisdom that is so deep it has no bottom.

And because we're very thankful, we today continue to work on our marriage because between the already of our conversion

and not yet of our home going, we are, we still are sinners in need of God's grace.

And that sin rears its ugly head, but we have huge hope because we've seen God's grace in operation.

How did you first meet? You said you got engaged at 17, so were you, you know, dating a little bit

before that? No, I first saw Luella in a lunch line, my very first year of college, and I stared at her.

She felt uncomfortable.

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