You think about it, friendship is the foundation of a really good marriage.

You want to be good friends.

And if you're not playing together, are you really friends?

You know?

That's Dr. Marcus Warner, and he's our guest today on Focus on the Family along with his co-author Chris Corsi.

Your host is Focus President and author Jim Daly and I'm John Fuller.

Here at Focus, we talk about marriage quite a bit

John. We do. It's a good thing and we want your marriage to be the best it could

possibly be and you can have that kind of marriage. I'm talking about the resources, the tools, all the things here are focused we're trying to equip you with so you can practice a good marriage.

Somebody said the other day to me, you know, we spent a lot of time, you know, getting a license to do something or working

hard vocationally, but we really don't put, unfortunately, a lot of work into our marriage.

And I think it's a good reminder that if you don't do that it'll

wither and sometimes die so we want to plow that good ground around that plant of

marriage feed it nurture it sometimes I do that, sometimes I don't do that well.

And today, we want to be able to talk about the tools

that you need to do it better.

You know, in the New Testament, First Thessalonians,

it says, rejoice always.

And sometimes in marriage and certainly in other relationships,

it can be a challenge.

You know, the joy sucking occurs rather than a joy fountain.

And today we want to give you some tools to cultivate that spirit of joy in your marriage.

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