Welcome. This is Craig McConnell. We're glad that you're listening into the

Ransom Heart podcast. It's our joy to Weekly. Put some of the message and our lives out there hoping that Christ will use these

words this time to just really encourage you and we're continuing in our little series we're doing with John and Stacey Eldridge and John and Stacey's book, Love and War,

Finding the Marriage You Desire.

Dream of.

Starts with the day.

And this is our second time together.

We're just continuing the conversation on marriage.

Love and War. Say more about that.

We live in a love story set in the midst of war and the more that we can

believe it, grasp it, absorb it, you know, hold on to it, use it, it shed so much light on so many things, including our marriage.

Our marriage is a love story.

Christianity is a love story,

and our marriage is a love story that's meant to reflect that love story, right?

I mean, Paul says the wildest thing.

You know, he's talking about husbands loving your wives and wives loving your husbands.

And he says that marriage is... loving your

husband's and he says that marriage is a picture of Christ and the church.

And I read that and I go you're're kidding me, you're kidding me, God...

On any given Tuesday is your... Yeah, God has entrusted who, with what he has chosen to make our marriages a picture of Christ in the church. I, it blows me away.

It absolutely blows me away.

Yeah.

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