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Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

HOW RISK-TAKING LOVE LEADS TO A THRIVING, NOT BARELY ALIVE, MARRIAGE

Wretched Radio with Todd Friel

Fortis Institute

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Wait a minute — that’s not Todd! Today on Wretched Radio, Fortis Institute Fellow and Thrive host, Pastor Brad Bigney, steps in as guest host to discuss the key components to a marriage that thrives! Segment 1: • Brad Bigney guest hosts, and explains how God can move your marriage from surviving to thriving. • Real love requires risk: giving for another’s good with no strings attached. • God’s Word—not feelings or experts—guides thriving marriages. Segment 2: • Fear blocks intimacy and fuels self-protection, pretending, and shutdowns. • Love and fear are opposites—God’s love frees us to risk loving others. • Knowing God as “Abba” gives security to love boldly in relationships. Segment 3: • Focusing on a spouse’s faults poisons relationships—gratitude restores joy. • Thoughts shape emotions and actions; wrong thinking fuels conflict. • Gratitude shifts perspective, even through trials, planting marriages in healthier soil. Segment 4: • Small, daily gratitude habits re-root marriages in joy and stability. • Expressed gratitude snowballs into marriage, parenting, and friendships. • Guarding thoughts and focusing on grace transforms homes—but gratitude is not for abuse cases. ___ Thanks for listening! Wretched Radio would not be possible without the financial support of our Gospel Partners. If you would like to support Wretched Radio we would be extremely grateful. VISIT https://fortisinstitute.org/donate/ If you are already a Gospel Partner we couldn’t be more thankful for you if we tried!

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0:00.0

Richard Radio begins in three, two, one.

0:08.5

Evolution is more than a theory. It is a fundamental scientific principle.

0:11.6

You know, there's a scientific term for that. It's called baloney.

0:13.9

We are so stupid that we think that just because telephones and computers and cars are

0:18.0

intelligently designed, that means we are too. Well, we're not.

0:21.0

I don't trust that Richard Dawkins. In the beginning, God created heaven, the earth, is the only

0:26.0

logical explanation unless you don't want to believe in science and logic. It's time for Richard

0:31.9

Radio with Todd Friel. Oh, my name is Brad Bigny, and I'm a fellow with the Fortis Institute. And so far, I've only had the

0:40.2

privilege of hosting the Thrive Marriage Podcast. But today, that all changes. I get to do what I have only

0:48.9

dreamed about doing, being a guest host for the man himself, Todd Todd for real. Oh, give me a drum roll and some

0:58.8

trumpets. That's right. I'm sitting in the big chair today, filling in for the man himself,

1:10.7

and not because I begged him either.

1:12.8

He actually asked me to do this. So here we go. Let's jump into it. Let's talk about what could help

1:21.2

your marriage to go from barely alive to beginning to thrive. When I say the word risk and I say the word love, what do you think?

1:31.3

Do you even think those two words go together at all? Or do you live most your life thinking,

1:36.4

hey, I want to eliminate risk, reduce it, eradicate it, get rid of all risk if I could.

1:42.2

But I do want to experience robust, real love.

1:47.7

Well, we're going to talk about how these two words actually go together

1:51.9

when you learn what you need to know about love from the Bible

1:55.1

instead of your own feelings, instead of the culture,

1:58.9

and instead of, quote, experts, what even experts might tell you.

2:03.5

We'll never be perfect.

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