Gary Thomas: Lifelong Love that Fights the Drift
FamilyLife Today®
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4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Feeling the drift in your marriage? On FamilyLife Today, Dave and Ann Wilson host author Gary Thomas--who explores how intimacy with God helps us go the distance in marriage and fight for lifelong love.
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| 0:00.0 | If you think back to when we were struggling what we do wrong you mean when our marriage is struggle. Yeah |
| 0:06.7 | What do you think we did wrong? |
| 0:08.5 | We got it. Besides saying it was all my phone. We got angry and resentful. We pulled away from one another. I stopped talking |
| 0:15.8 | What what do you think I think we lost our sense of calling our sense of mission. I think |
| 0:22.5 | For me, I became very inward focused on my happiness and my dreams you not meeting them and I got |
| 0:30.0 | Frustrated and I pulled away. Yeah, and I think I start getting obsessed with your weaknesses and how you were pulling away |
| 0:36.9 | And I was very selfish and prideful thinking that it was all your fault |
| 0:52.2 | Welcome to Family Life today where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most. I'm Ann Wilson |
| 0:58.5 | And I'm Dave Wilson and you can find us at familylifetoday.com or on our Family Life app. This is Family Life today |
| 1:18.7 | Every couple we were included wants to have a life-long |
| 1:22.8 | Marriage that's the goal on day one. You're like I don't want this to end in a year or ten years |
| 1:28.1 | We see the picture of ourselves now bald |
| 1:32.0 | Empty nesters and that's the dream. The question is how do you get there? |
| 1:35.3 | So we have Gary Thomas back in the studio today with us to talk about how to do a life-long love Gary |
| 1:40.9 | Welcome back. Thank you for having me now. You wrote a book called Life Long Love. Yes, obviously all about how do you do marriage? |
| 1:47.7 | Long distance you've written 20 books. I mean of all the books you've written though |
| 1:52.9 | Where does this rank in terms of like the message you were trying to get out? |
| 1:56.9 | Well, let me say what the subtitle is two days is discovering how intimacy with God |
| 2:01.8 | breathes passion into your marriage, which is a great subtitle. Well, sacred marriage |
| 2:07.3 | Which is sort of what I became known for was really in one sense. I think a spiritual formation book |
| 2:12.5 | How does God use the challenges the difficulties the frustrations of marriage to help us grow and to become more like Christ? |
| 2:19.4 | So it really gets at the root issues of marriage. This was my first more how does |
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