Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't

grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I

take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I

ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't

shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love

with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app

today. The best marriages I've seen are marriages where the two people live for

something outside of themselves and that's the kingdom of God. They have purpose.

They don't let the small stuff become the big stuff. Look if you're working on

a task, if you're seeing people's lives change, these little things that

husbands and wives so often fight about, they just don't matter. That's Gary

Thomas and you'll hear more from him today on Focus on the Family about

finding that common purpose with your spouse. Your host is Focus President and

author Jim Daley and I'm John Fuller. Most of us get married because we want to be

happy and we want to be loved. It's very normal. God wants that for us too but he

also wants so much more for us in our marriages and that is to spur one another

in our relationship with God. One reason marriages get stuck is because we want

our spouse to change, to meet our needs instead of changing ourselves to meet

our spouse's needs and that is the simple beauty and the truth of marriage in my opinion.

Today Gary is going to challenge us to take hold of a bigger vision for our marriages

and become the husband or wife that our spouse needs. I think that's a bold statement.

Here at Focus on the Family we want to help you thrive in your marriage. We have so many

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