Making Your Marriage a Refuge with Special Guest Gary Thomas Ep. 530
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 25 October 2022
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
"The storms will hit. It's not a threat, it's just a reality," as Gary Thomas shares with us today.
When they do, we want our marriages to be a refuge where we take comfort. In this episode, Gary Thomas tells us how to make sure your marriage is a safe haven for you and your spouse, rather than a source of pain and conflict. His latest book tells real-life stories of marriages that overcame hardship to become a fortress.
We believe this is what God wants for each marriage and what he wants for you! Don't miss this encouraging episode!
Episode highlights include:
- The one thing all of the "fortress" couples have in common
- Getting on the same page when one spouse is checked out
- How to overcome past wounds to heal our marriage
We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.
*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations and practical advice on how to build an awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.9 | I am your podcast producer and co-host, Lindsay Few. |
| 0:13.4 | On the show will be our host, Dr. Kim Kimberly. |
| 0:17.0 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 50 years. His passion is to help you |
| 0:23.4 | strengthen your most intimate relationship. Welcome to Us and Marriage Podcasts today. Arthur |
| 0:30.6 | Gary Thomas joins me. Gary has been a previous guest on the podcast. I'm so glad to have |
| 0:35.2 | him back with us today. His newest book, Making Your Marriage a Fortress, |
| 0:39.0 | Strengthing Your Marriage to withstand life storms. It's out this month, so let's go to the studio |
| 0:43.4 | and begin our talk with Gary Thomas. Well, Gary, welcome to today's awesome marriage podcast. |
| 0:49.2 | It is so good to have you back on the podcast again. Thank you for spending time with us today. |
| 0:54.2 | Well, it's my honor and privilege. Thank you so much. |
| 0:57.0 | We're excited about the new book that's coming out, making your marriage a fortress, |
| 1:01.7 | strengthening your marriage to withstand life storms. I love the title. I think it fits us all, |
| 1:06.5 | and especially after the couple of years that we have come out of. We've got a lot of storms, and a lot of storms and very just so. |
| 1:13.7 | Kind of paint this picture of what marriage can look like when a couple has made it a portrait. |
| 1:19.0 | I love that analogy. |
| 1:21.3 | The whole point is that this world is not kind to marriages. |
| 1:27.0 | We have our own sin. James 3. two says we all stumble in many ways. |
| 1:31.3 | We have the sin of others. They sin against us. We have financial challenges. We have economic |
| 1:36.9 | challenges. We just had been through a worldwide pandemic. And so I was just talking to all of these |
| 1:42.9 | couples where just some of the worst things imaginable happen, losing their only son, a severe medical diagnosis for a lifelong disability. |
| 1:54.4 | You name it. |
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