Growing up, Karen Larritz didn't see commitment in marriage lived out.

The women in my family ate up men.

They were an endangered species.

These women just ate them up and spit them out.

Either they didn't marry them or they divorced them.

Today, we'll hear what it takes to break that kind of cycle.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Friday hear what it takes to break that kind of cycle.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Friday, May 20th, 2016.

Today's program will give wives a lot of valuable advice to ponder, but it may not be appropriate for young children.

Yesterday, Pastor Crawford-Laritz took us to the book of Genesis to review God's design for marriage.

Crawford is the pastor of Fellowship Bible Church in the Atlanta area.

He'll be back at the end of today's program, but first we're going to hear from his wife, Karen,

as she talks straight to women about issues that she has struggled with, like submission, in marriage.

Karen is a woman who's knowledgeable in God's word.

She has a lot of depth to offer, and she speaks as a woman who has learned to live out this message.

Crawford and Karen were speaking

at a breakout session

at the True Woman 10 conference.

Let's listen.

Let me just read a couple of scriptures,

a couple scriptures from the word.

An excellent wife is a crown of her husband, but she who shames him is as rottenness to his bones.

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