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Awesome Marriage Podcast

Faith Over Culture: Building a Marriage That Stands with Aaron and Amy Graham Ep. 728

Awesome Marriage Podcast

Dr. Kim Kimberling

Relationships, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.9 • 813 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 60 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In a culture that constantly redefines truth, how do you build a marriage that actually stands firm?

Dr. Kim sits down with Aaron and Amy Graham to talk about choosing faith over culture and why most marriages don't fall apart overnight—they slowly drift as outside voices shape what we believe about love, identity, and purpose. The Grahams challenge couples to examine those influences, guard their identity, and remember that marriage was designed for more than just their own happiness.

This conversation is a powerful reminder that your spouse isn't meant to meet every need—and that intimacy with God is the foundation for a thriving marriage.

 

Episode highlights:

Drifting is a slow process.

If we are to live a life that goes against culture, we must know truth and live by it. 

Marriage has a greater mission than just your happiness.



Quotes from this Episode:

The Grahams:

If the church doesn't disciple people, the world gladly will.

What does it look like to stand firm in a marriage? It's to not give the devil a foothold.

Sometimes we don't realize how we have subtly imported a secular worldview into every area of our life. 

The enemy doesn't want to just tempt us to sin. He wants to reshape our identity and distort our worship. 

God has designed us for intimacy and that starts in our marriage relationship. 

We have to go into our marriage understanding that our spouse isn't going to solve all of our loneliness. We have to have relationship with God. 

The secular lie is that we determine what truth is: my feelings, my version of the truth.

Marriage sometimes can become an idol for people when they don't have a bigger mission than just marriage. Because your marriage can become self centered- what the main mission- it's not just your happiness. 

Dr. Kim:

So much of our faith is knowing that this God who created everything loves us conditionally in a culture where nobody loves us unconditionally- sometimes that's hard to get a hold of.

Selfishness is something we have to be aware of our whole marriage because we can fall into that trap. 

God is never going to do anything in you that is not good for your marriage. 




Time to talk about it:

Are there ideas we need to deconstruct in our marriage? 

What voices are we allowing to speak into our marriage? Do they align with the Truth?

What disciplines do we need to implement to show that our marriage is a priority and to honor the union that God has brought together? 

 

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Transcript

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think just kind of a larger message of unshakable faith is that if if the church doesn't disciple

0:06.8

people of the world gladly will and that you know if it that where the church steps back the

0:13.3

culture steps in and I've just seen this over and over of seeing how many people have drifted

0:18.8

in their faith with God over the years.

0:21.7

And I've even seen it with marriages where you just think that you can become the

0:25.4

exception to the rule and that you don't need to put the same boundaries around your marriage

0:30.4

or have the same disciplines that other people have.

0:34.6

And so it's always a slow process like to deconstruction of your faith or even

0:41.7

unraveling of your marriage. It's never, I don't think anybody starts off being like, I want,

0:46.6

I want to lose my faith or I want to lose my marriage. It's like, no, it's subtle. And a lot of

0:53.0

times you even have good intentions or you have justification for raising things up front, but it begins to unravel.

0:59.3

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Welcome to today's awesome marriage podcast today.

1:23.1

Erin and Amy Graham, join me.

1:24.8

They're the founding pastors of the district church in Washington, D.C.

1:28.3

This church represents more than 80 nations. For 15 years, they partnered together in ministry

1:33.7

in the heart of our nation's capital, disciplining a generation to follow Jesus with courage

1:39.1

and conviction. Aaron serves as a lead pastor and holds a master's degree in public policy

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