Welcome to Ultimate Marriage, weekly show designed to replace the lies culture has told us about marriage and family, with the raw truths found in the Bible.

The premise is simple, divorce is rising, families are falling, and the culture and even the church seems to be more confused than ever.

My name is Dale Partridge, along with my incredible wife Veronica. Join us as we start an important conversation about what it really means to have a Christian marriage.

Hey guys, welcome to Ultimate Marriage, today we're going to be talking about,

how to have a marriage that is holy and not just happy.

Gary Thomas wrote a book called Sacred Marriage and he had this concept of what does it mean to have a holy marriage not just a happy marriage.

I think the subtitle of his book is marriages here to make you holy not just to make you happy.

I think he coined that concept and I thought it was important to talk about today what does that actually mean.

So we're going to talk about that, we're also going to answer two questions.

Later in the show today's a very short show because we got a busy week, I have an exam for my hermeneutics class at my graduate program for Bible college seminary stuff.

And then we're also having a live 90 minute teaching for our one year Ultimate Marriage program.

We're teaching about sex for 90 minutes this Thursday. And if you're interested in learning more about that program, want to be involved in the next one.

Just go to ultimate marriage.com forward slash and notify.

I'm just I'm still fighting this stomach thing and we're working hard to do that. So yeah, I'm trying to de-stress try to pull back a bit.

And if you're watching this a video, we're just warm.

Veronica is wearing a gene.

Sure, polite Levi's denim jacket. There you go. And I'm wearing a Costco vest. Don't judge me.

So I want to talk to you guys about this idea. I've been reading the Old Testament.

And we've been just I've been going through all this stuff for my hermeneutics class Jeremiah reading about through Deuteronomy's doing some stuff in the Torah.

And I'm finding that there's just this resounding theme that's going through the Old Testament.

And he's constantly telling the children of Israel to eat differently, to dress differently, to work differently, to worship differently.

He's he's he's got his all these rules that kind of separate the Israelites from all the other peoples in the area.

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