Whether it's our careers or whether it's our personal challenges or financial challenges or parenting challenges or life challenges

Whatever it is one of the greatest gifts is to have someone in your life that respects your worth and says,

I believe in you. I know this is challenge, I know this is different, but I believe God is going to

see you through this season, and I'm right here beside you every step of the way. Welcome to Family Life Today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that matter most.

I'm Shelby Abbott and your hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson.

You can find us at FamilyLife Today.

This is Family life today. So right now I'm picturing us laying on our lounge chairs on the upper deck of the

love like you mean at Marriage crews a few months back. That was my favorite part of the

wind blowing through my hair. Well I guess I don't have hair. That was the

favorite part? Absolutely. I mean it was sort of a dream come true, you know, to sort of be on vacation in the sun in the

Caribbean, but also focusing on our marriage.

And if that sounds good to you, let us invite you to the next

love like you mean it, marriage getaway. Yeah and you can sign up at Family Life., and you should sign up right now because there's a special deal going on, and you don't want to miss that deal, so...

Who doesn't want to be on a marriage cruise? Yeah, and I'm not even a cruise guy. I wouldn't like pick a boat as my favorite vacation, but this is different.

It is. Because it's pleasure with purpose. It's cruise with a meaning behind it, and it's really going to enhance your marriage.

And we're going to give you an example of some of the talks that you might hear.

Today we're going to listen to Brian and Stephanie Carter who actually gave a talk on the love like you mean at Marriage Cruz.

Yeah, it was the second night on our cruise and if you don't know Brian Carter you should he. He's on the Family Life Board of Directors.

He's also a pastor for several decades

down in Dallas of Concord Church.

And we sat way back in the back of this amphitheatre as he and Stephanie gave a talk on the secret sauce to great marriages.

I'm not a sauce guy. Maybe I'm barbecue maybe honey mustard but they do a great job on talking about what is the secret sauce yeah let me tell you this is the secret sauce so make sure you enjoy and take notes because you're going to

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