Growing Spiritually in Every Season

Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2021

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Homes need a strong foundation, and marriages need to be established on God's love. Without it, you won't be nearly as ready when challenges come your way. John and Erin offer some helpful ideas for being strong spiritually as a couple. Featuring Mrs. Debra Fileta.

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0:00.0	Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't
0:04.7	grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I
0:10.2	take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I
0:14.4	ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't
0:18.8	shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love
0:23.6	with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app
0:28.3	today.
0:36.1	The house I live in was built in 1959 and there are some cracks in the ceiling
0:42.1	and it's not a foundational issue. Fortunately, it's just a time issue and a
0:47.2	couple of things that made those cracks happen. But houses need strong
0:52.6	foundations. Otherwise those cracks become crevices and the whole house
0:57.4	crumbles. Now there are times in your marriage when you feel like it's all
1:01.5	coming apart. The storms of life have entered into our realm. They're pulling us
1:07.7	down. We're going to go under. You don't know where to turn. If you don't have a
1:12.1	strong foundation in Christ, listen in. I'm John Fuller, along with Aaron Smalley
1:17.6	who's on the team here at Focus. She and her husband Greg run the marriage
1:21.2	team and Aaron, you do a lot of counseling and I know that probably the majority
1:27.0	of couples you see have gone through some hard times and that foundation gets
1:31.9	rattled. Their house starts to develop big cracks. I mean, what makes a
1:36.4	difference? How does God make a difference for those couples?
1:40.0	It's so interesting, John, because I love this question. I love thinking about
1:44.3	the couples that I've worked with over the years. And I will say one of the things
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