HOW TO NAVIGATE A HARD MARRIAGE WITHOUT LOSING YOUR FAITH OR HOPE – PART 1

Transformed with Dr. Greg Gifford

Fortis Institute

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Education

4.9 • 717 Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Transformed Podcast Episode 106 | January 16, 2025 Dr. Greg Gifford dives into the biblical foundation for understanding divorce and marriage in hard circumstances. Learn the two biblical grounds for divorce and how God’s Word provides both clarity and hope in challenging marital situations. ___ Thanks for listening! Transformed would not be possible without the financial support of our Gospel Partners. If you would like to support Transformed 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	What is? What is? What is? What is biblical counseling?
0:03.8	Biblical counseling will grow you from brokenness to wholeness.
0:07.7	I think what you just said made me look at those scenarios differently.
0:10.5	God replaced all my junk with a beautiful light.
0:14.8	God's really been changing the way that I parent my children.
0:19.6	The most amazing thing is the sufficiency of his word. This is
0:24.4	Transform. And now your host, assistant professor of biblical counseling at the Master's
0:30.1	University and certified biblical counselor, Dr. Greg Gifford. Welcome back to Transform. My name is Dr. Greg Gifford. Welcome back to Transform.
0:38.4	My name is Dr. Greg Gifford, and today we're talking about difficult marriages.
0:42.6	When I say difficult, this is the reality that, you know, Brad will use the term, Brad Bigny, he'll
0:49.0	use the term thrive.
0:50.6	If you haven't listened to his podcast yet, you really got to check it out because he says something that's very true.
0:56.2	He says, God doesn't just want your marriage to exist, survive, but rather to thrive.
1:03.2	We do want our marriages to thrive.
1:05.1	But the reality is that sometimes they're not, and some marriages are just flat out difficult and hard. It's been hard for a while. When your marriage
1:13.9	has been hard for a while, what happens is you start to think about biblical criteria for divorce.
1:20.8	You start to mull over the D word, and I don't mean Dallas. Anybody a country music fan? The idea of divorce, it doesn't come up when things are well.
1:31.2	So if your marriage is thriving, you never wonder what does divorce look like, what are
1:36.8	the biblical criteria, that never comes across your mind because you just think I love this
1:40.4	person, I want to be with them.
1:42.3	It's when things do take a turn, and sometimes it's just cold and difficult. It's been hard. It's been tough rowing and it's been tough rowing for years. So divorce is that unfortunate reality that we live with, that the covenant that was intended to be permanent and lifelong isn't. So divorce is something that you and I have all been
2:02.8	exposed to in one way or another. I want to be very gracious in these next two episodes because I think
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