Connecting Spiritually With Your Spouse
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
4.7 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 1 September 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Greg and Erin Smalley share today about their own struggles and joys in connecting in marriage. They emphasize having first of all, a relationship with God, which enables true spiritual connection with one's spouse. The Smalleys outline some great practical ways in which spouses can better relate on a spiritual level.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, parents. |
| 0:01.0 | Parent here. |
| 0:02.0 | I don't know about you, but most parenting advice I've found is a lot like my son's favorite |
| 0:05.7 | foods, just beans and hot dogs. |
| 0:08.2 | It's bland, and way too juvenile for how old he actually is. |
| 0:12.0 | But focus on the family's weekly age and stage emails have biblical stuff that helps |
| 0:16.1 | me be intentional as a parent. |
| 0:18.2 | It's great like a chef's salad of parenting tips. |
| 0:20.5 | If you want biblical, practical, and personal tips to your inbox, here's how. |
| 0:24.8 | Go to mykidsage.com, put in your kids' age, and get weekly emails that make a difference. |
| 0:30.0 | Hey, Aaron, let me ask you what you think of the term soulmate. |
| 0:38.1 | You know, I really feel like soulmate is really, it's kind of pure fantasy. |
| 0:42.8 | It's an illusion because really spiritual connection between a couple is real. |
| 0:47.7 | Hmm. |
| 0:48.7 | Well, the soulmate is used so often, it seems, and there are a lot of different perspectives |
| 0:53.2 | about it. |
| 0:54.2 | We're going to unpack what it might mean and how you can have a close intimate relationship |
| 0:59.4 | with your spouse and be more spiritually connected in the way that Aaron was just saying. |
| 1:04.6 | This is focus on the family, with focus president and author Jim Daily, and I'm John Fuller. |
| 1:09.3 | Hey, John, I'm looking forward to the program today because this is the tune up kind of program |
| 1:13.9 | where we, particularly in the Christian community, need to think about our marriages and need |
| 1:19.3 | to pay attention to them. |
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