Is your marriage strong enough to go through dry times?

Here's Dennis Rainey.

You know, when you go through a period of intense suffering, there isn't room for romance.

And there's where the culture lies to us.

Because a lot of life is going to be in the midst of storms.

And it's why your house has to be built on Jesus Christ and a commitment,

unless the Lord builds the house they labor in vain who build it. And I think this area of

marriage gets idealized to the point of not even thinking through what's going to come at you

as a couple in life. You say for better or for worse, but then what do you do when it happens?

And a lot of life is lived outside of that romantic ideal that Hollywood tells us

exists all the time.

This is the Revive Our Hearts Podcast with Nancy DeMoss Walglemouth, author of Lies Women Believe.

It's Monday, January 2nd, 2017.

Happy New Year. Imagine what your marriage could be like if you purposefully were developing intimacy over these next 12 months.

Today's program will show you how.

Nancy DeMoss-Waglmuth is talking with Dennis and Barbara Rainey about developing greater intimacy in marriage.

Dennis and Barbara founded the ministry Family Life life, and Dennis serves as president.

This conversation began when Nancy and Barbara were discussing Barbara's book,

Letters to My Daughters on the Art of Being a Wife. They invited Dennis to the platform and put

him on the spot. If you have younger kids with you, be aware they talk about physical

closeness between a husband and wife. I told Robert as I was reading this book, honey, this book

is going to make me an incredible wife. And, you know, he already thinks I am an incredible wife.

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