Fiercely Faithful Relationships: Lakewood Pastors Clayton & Ashlee Hurst & Writer Alli Worthington

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🗓️ 15 February 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Today’s episode features two sets of guests who have similar perspectives on life and marriage and how they get through the rough times every relationship faces. Clayton & Ashlee Hurst are marriage pastors at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas. They share personal stories of communication pitfalls in marriage and how they keep Christ at the center of their relationship. Alli Worthington is an author, business coach and the co-founder of Blissdom, who, with her husband, faced job losses, homelessness and chronic illness. She shares how she was able to loose the grip fear had on her during these difficult seasons, and where she found the courage to overcome her anxieties.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. Today we speak with two sets of guests who have
0:09.1	similar perspectives on marriage and
0:14.0	and parenting pastors at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas.
0:20.0	They share personal stories of communication pitfalls in marriage and how they keep Christ at the center of their relationship.
0:27.0	Ali Worthington is an author, business coach, and the co-founder of Blistam, who, over the course of her marriage, face job losses,
0:35.2	homelessness, and chronic illness. She shares how she was able to loose the grip fear had on her during these difficult
0:41.4	seasons and where she found the courage to overcome her anxieties.
0:46.2	We are the marriage and parenting pastors at Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas.
0:50.4	We've been on staff at Lakewood for a little over 13 years and we started with the Marriage and parenting ministry in 2014.
0:59.0	We have three kids ranging from 17 to 2 and we've been married for 21 years.
1:05.0	Clay and I both grew up in East Texas.
1:08.0	We met at our home church there and so I come from a family of very loving parents. My parents have been
1:16.4	married for almost 46 years and our house was just it was a great house to
1:21.2	grow up in. My parents loved each other deeply,
1:24.1	and that made me feel safe.
1:26.0	And so I knew I was always gonna go home
1:28.4	to a very happy home, a very love-filled home, and that just brought me so much peace and security,
1:36.2	and I'm so grateful to my parents for modeling that for me that I can now pass on to my kids. I grew up in a very similar situation in a small
1:45.8	town in East Texas. My parents now have been married for almost over 55 years
1:50.8	have a brother and a sister and it was the same type of environment.
1:56.2	My parents loved each other.
1:58.0	Very rarely, if ever, heard them argue or complain.
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