It's pretty common to hear in our culture today that it's important for us to follow our heart, which sounds good but isn't very trustworthy advice. I'm John

Fuller along with Greg Smalley and his wife Erin and they lead the focus on the

family marriage

relationship.

Well, I would say in any decision, there's two parts.

God gave us a heart and a brain. And so if we go to our heart and we identify what are we feeling, that is information that we can then take to our brain to make a full decision. Our emotions are nothing more than

indicators. It's information of something is happening here, but then we have

this brain that we can go, okay, so what do I need to do now? So I would say one

without the other if you're functioning brain only you're in essence are

showing up heartless but if you're showing up heart only, well then you're taking out the

cognitive part of it, the ability to make wise decisions.

Mm-hmm.

And let's go ahead now and hear a little bit more about emotions and logic as we hear focused

president Jim Daly speaking with Dr David Gudgel. He spent years as a

pastor and he shares here why enjoying your marriage shouldn't be based on temporary emotions.

Dave, welcome back to Focus.

Thank you, it's really fun to come.

Yeah, so good to have you.

Now I got to ask the obvious question, what prompted you to write a book called Enjoy Your Marriage More?

Is there a behind the scene story there?

Yeah, it got started with a guy who came into my office.

He said, I got about a half hour and I need some help because I'm beginning to get

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