Hey everybody, this is Andy Wood, and I'm the pastor here at Saddleback Church, and this is our podcast.

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Now, today we're wrapping up our message series called The Road to Freedom.

Stacey and I are going to join together for a conversation about marriage,

and I want to invite her to come to the stage.

Will y'all welcome her as she comes up.

All right, here we go.

We're going to talk about mailage.

Mellwich.

So, Stace, we've been married for 22 years, and this is a subject of increasing passion for us.

Yes.

And so I want to start before we jump in and talk about why we're doing this at the end of

a series on freedom.

Yeah.

Well, you know, statistically, so many people will get married over the course of their

lifetime.

Globally, over 70% of people will be married at some point during their lifetime.

So this message, it really has an impact on a lot of people.

And so it's very needed in the world today.

Yeah.

In addition to that, there's a lot of confusion on what leads to a thriving marriage.

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