Building Blocks for a Stronger Marriage
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this broadcast, pastor and author Bob Lepine encourages you to strengthen your marriage by working toward oneness with your spouse. This requires honesty about past hurts, working through conflict, and asking forgiveness when you’ve wronged each other.
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| 0:00.0 | Marriage podcasts usually go one of two ways. |
| 0:03.0 | Relatable, but not helpful, or helpful, but totally unrelatable to your marriage. |
| 0:09.1 | The crazy little thing called Marriage Podcast has all the, |
| 0:12.4 | whoa, that's me, marriage stories. |
| 0:14.7 | And wow, I never knew that. |
| 0:16.8 | Clinical wisdom to help your marriage thrive. |
| 0:19.3 | Crazy little thing called marriage will be your favorite lesson of your week. |
| 0:22.6 | An amazing marriage is possible. |
| 0:24.5 | It begins with you. |
| 0:26.3 | Listen on your favorite podcast app. |
| 0:30.7 | I was getting ready to speak at a marriage conference and I was listening to focus on the family. |
| 0:34.5 | And Gary Smalley was on focus on the family. |
| 0:37.2 | And Gary Smalley in his inimable, but way said, |
| 0:40.2 | I'm going to tell you the one thing. |
| 0:42.4 | If you can learn how to forgive, he said that's how to resolve conflict and forgive in a marriage. |
| 0:48.4 | That's the key. And I thought, well, that should have dawned on me before now, but we're going to |
| 0:52.9 | have conflict in marriage. If we can't figure out what do we do when that happens, we're all going |
| 0:57.8 | to have problems. But if we can figure out how to resolve conflict, then we can have a good |
| 1:03.2 | marriage. And the key to that is to be generous, |
| 1:06.8 | forgivers with one another. |
| 1:09.2 | That's Bob Lapine. And he joins us today on focus on the family. |
| 1:12.9 | Thank you for being with us. Your host is focus president and author Jim Daley. |
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