#485 Your Marriage Won't Survive Without Grace: Why Marriages Built on Performance Fall Apart
Java with Juli - Making Sense of God and Sex
Authentic Intimacy®
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🗓️ 2 October 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
When you’re trying to diagnose what’s missing in your marital relationship, chances are you probably won’t attribute challenges to a lack of grace. But what if grace is the missing piece?
Brad and Marilyn Rhoads of Grace Marriage join Juli to share their story. They unpack how God showed them the key role grace had to play in their marriage, how it brought them closer, and how it helped brace their relationship through challenging emotional seasons.
Guests: Brad and Marilyn Rhoads
Grace Marriage’s Instagram: @grace_marriage Grace Marriage’s Facebook: Grace Marriage
Website: gracemarriage.com
Book: The Grace Marriage: How the Gospel and Intentionality Transform Your Relationship
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Blog: Forgiveness is Hard, Grace is Harder
Blog: The Challenge of Grace
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| 0:00.0 | Hey friend, welcome to Java with Julie, hosted by me, Julie Slattery. This podcast is a listener-supported |
| 0:08.6 | outreach of a ministry called Authentic Intimacy, and our mission is to reclaim God's design for sexuality |
| 0:15.2 | and really to walk with you on that journey. Well, it's week four of our seven-week series on different themes around |
| 0:22.3 | God's sex and intimacy. And this week, we're focusing on marriage, the good, the bad, and the |
| 0:27.9 | ugly. When your spouse snaps at you after a hard day of work or a day of high emotion with |
| 0:33.4 | the kids, let me ask you, what is your first response? Well, for a lot of us, it probably |
| 0:38.1 | has nothing to do with grace. What do you think would happen if instead of responding harshly |
| 0:43.4 | or maybe giving them the silent treatment, you responded gently with a soft answer? |
| 0:49.2 | You think the outcome would be pretty different? Well, in today's episode, my guest, Brad and Marilyn Rhodes, share how |
| 0:55.8 | this revolutionary approach literally transformed their marriage. Brad and Marilyn are the authors of |
| 1:01.6 | the new book, Grace Marriage, How the Gospel and Intentionality Transform Your Relationship. They're |
| 1:07.8 | the founders of the ministry, Grace Marriage, and it's a ministry helping couples reimagine their marriages as vehicles of God's grace. |
| 1:16.5 | In their new book, Brad and Maryland are helping married couples experience greater connection, more gratitude, and real grace. |
| 1:23.2 | So that whether you're having a marriage that's thriving or it's stagnant or it's stable, |
| 1:28.5 | you're able to experience the gospel in your actual relationships. |
| 1:32.6 | Now, this is a conversation for happy couples, frustrated couples, and even soon to be married couples, |
| 1:38.4 | and has something to bless and challenge everyone. |
| 1:40.9 | So here is my conversation with my friends Brad and Marilyn Rhodes. |
| 1:47.0 | Well, Brad and Marilyn, what a joy to have you on job with Julie and Brad, you're drinking your coffee. So, you know, it's legit. There you go. |
| 1:56.4 | Brad, would you just kind of summarize briefly the heart of grace marriage and really what led you to start |
| 2:02.3 | it? Well, what led us to start it was as marriage pastor, after I was ordained, I saw that we did |
| 2:07.8 | premarital counseling and crisis counseling, but really didn't have a strategy for the marriage itself. |
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