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This message is called The healing journey of marriage and it surprises some people

to hear that God designed marriage to heal us.

An oxymoron is a self-contradictory statement and so the healing journey of

marriage sounds like an oxymoron to some people because marriage has damaged so many people so deeply and

sometimes it may not be their marriage but it may be their parents marriage

or you know someone that's an environment that they grew up with in that damaged

them or it could have been a

previous marriage or two or three that deeply damaged them so to hear that

marriage is a healing journey is a shocking thing. Let me say Karen and I began in marriage hurting each other,

deeply damaging each other, to the brink of divorce, then we healed each other.

And our marriage today, we live in a healed, happy marriage today we live in a healed happy marriage because we found

God's way miraculously and by the grace of God we found God's way and so I want to

begin with four simple but profoundly important facts related to marriage

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