Making Your Marriage A Fortress (with Gary Thomas)

Dad Tired

Jerrad Lopes

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

5 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Every marriage will face disaster. Illness or cancer. Job loss or financial burdens. Addiction. Anxiety. Infidelity. Loss of faith. It's not a question of if your marriage will face trials. It's a question of when. Whether you've been married for five years or fifty, your marriage will either become part of the problem or part of the solution, and it's within your power to ensure your marriage is prepared for those seasons, is a place of refuge and safety throughout those seasons, and can recover well after those seasons. In today's episode of the Dad Tired podcast, host Jerrad Lopes sits down with best-selling author Gary Thomas (Sacred Marriage) to talk through how to build a marriage that can withstand life's many storms.Podcast Discussion Questions for your Meet Up Group:* Do you look at your marriage as something that draws you closer to God?* What if you looked at and leaned into your marriage as a place where God is challenging you and showing you weaknesses in your character?* Is there some characteristic/attitude that you have in your life outside of the home that you need to check to connect with your family at home.* What are you chasing after to make you happy? Is it the kingdom of God? (Matt. 6:33)* Are you trying to turn your wife into a “love me how I want to be loved machine?” Or do you want to treat your wife like Christ who came not to be served but to serve.* Are you spiritually healthy enough to handle life when the storm hits? Will your marriage be a refuge or part of the problem.* Are you training your brain to escape the pain and pressure in your life today, that may only get worse when the storm comes?Questions from Jerrad and Gary* What is Gods agenda for my marriage? * What if your wife needs joy today in what she is doing? * Do I expect my wife/kids to exist for me? Or am I here to serve them and love them and help them grow?* How can you cherish your wife if you are living in terror of her finding you out? * What does your spiritual life look like outside of you wife? Are you relying on your wife’s relationship with Jesus?Find a Dad Tired community near you: https://www.dadtired.com/meetup.htmlJoin the online Dad Tired community: https://connect.dadtired.comDo you believe in the Dad Tired ministry? Partner with us here: https://www.dadtired.com/give.html

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0:00.0	Hey guys, really good conversation. I'm having with author Gary Thomas. It's going to be really
0:03.9	helpful for your marriage. You just want to say real quick before we jump in. You have two
0:06.8	weeks left. If you're listening to this episode at the and the week that it was released,
0:11.3	you have two weeks left to register for our dad's hard retreat this fall. We would love to have
0:15.3	you, but you have to sign up now. Registration will close on August 15, 2022. So if you're listening
0:21.5	before that, make sure that you register so that you can come join us. Then, that being said,
0:26.2	let's jump into the interview today with Gary Thomas. Gary, really excited to be hanging out
0:35.3	with you today, man. Thank you for taking the time. I know you're busy, but you've written a lot of
0:39.3	big books, books that have even shaped kind of my thinking before I was even a husband and dad,
0:44.0	not to like put any ages on any of us here, but you've influenced me for a long time, man. But
0:49.4	for the audience who may not be familiar with you, tell us who you are, what you're up to these days.
0:53.6	Yeah, I've been a writer most of my adult life. I have three kids now fully grown. So I'm on the
0:59.6	other side of most of your listeners. I grew up in Pacific Northwest. Just spent a decade in Texas
1:07.2	and very recently just moved to Colorado. So we've lived all over the country. We've literally
1:12.0	lived now, had a home in every one of the four time zones. Oh wow.
1:15.7	Pacific mountain central and eastern. Wow. That's incredible.
1:20.6	Yeah, man. You've really kind of shaped and given a great voice to much needed topics that we
1:27.9	need to talk about in marriage in regards to marriage. Like what put you on that path to really
1:33.2	empower marriages to be healthy and strong? I had written three books on spiritual formation.
1:39.2	It's how we get closer to the Lord. And then it hit me that what shaped me most as a person
1:45.6	and even as a believer and even revealed God to me more was my marriage. And then later my
1:50.8	parenting that that challenged me. It showed weaknesses in my character. And I'd never seen a book
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