Episode 102 - Does God Want Me To Divorce To Be Happy?
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Love and Respect
4.4 • 877 Ratings
🗓️ 24 June 2016
⏱️ 33 minutes
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“God wants you to be happy.” Have you heard this platitude before? Has it perhaps been spoken to you? Maybe you’ve even heard it said in the context of someone being encouraged to divorce their spouse, because “God wants you to be happy.” However, some platitudes, though quite memorable, are not based on biblical truth. Join Emerson and Jonathan this week as they discuss this important topic.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the love and respect podcast a conversation that changes the way you view all |
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| 0:20.8 | They are father and son. houses Emerson and Jonathan Egerich. Are you ready? Here we go. Welcome to the Love and Respect podcast. I'm Jonathan Eggrich, joined here by my father Emerson |
| 0:44.6 | Eggrich on this beautiful June day in 2016. Hope everybody had a wonderful Father's Day weekend by the time you listened to it'll been four or five days |
| 0:55.4 | ago but hope everybody had a meaningful weekend and those listening to you in the future. |
| 0:59.0 | Thanks for kind of joining us as we get into episode 102 today. |
| 1:03.8 | Does God want me to divorce to be happy? |
| 1:07.8 | So we will jump into that in a couple minutes, |
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