Welcome everyone to Family Talk. It's a ministry of the James Dobson Family Institute, supported by listeners just like you.

I'm Dr. James Dobson, and I'm thrilled that you've joined us.

Welcome to Family Talk, the broadcast ministry of the Dr. James Dobson Family Institute.

I'm Gary Bauer, senior vice president of public policy here at the Dobson Policy and Culture

Center.

I'm also the host of the Defending Faith Family and Freedom Podcasts.

You know, our nation was founded 250 years ago.

It's going to be a lot of celebrations about that this year.

And all during that time, the family, marriage between a man and a woman, has been the institution, which has held our great nation together.

And the foundation of successful families, as I think most of us know, are marriages based on the Bible, biblical marriage.

Since the beginning of time, it was God's plan for a man to leave his father and mother and cleave to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.

You know, even secular societies recognize the

value of families and marriage. But I'm sorry to say, and I think we all know this,

here in America, the family and marriage have been under a lot of pressure in recent years. Dr. James

Thompson devoted a good bit of his life

and ministry to trying to battle back against some of the cultural and legal pressures on marriage.

Sadly, even many Christian marriages often wind up in one of two categories, none of which are good.

The worst one, of course, is heading for divorce.

None of us want that.

But the second one, surviving but not thriving, I don't think that's anybody's idea of marriage either.

But there is good news about helping people, particularly people of faith,

rediscover the biblical principles that can help move our marriages out of divorce court

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