Practical Advice for Those Getting Ready to Wed (Part 1 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Dr. Greg and Erin Smalley share advice for couples getting ready to marry. Statistics show that the majority of Americans want a happy marriage, yet most spend less time preparing for the marriage than they do on the wedding ceremony. The Smalleys advise that engaged couples learn how to build a strong, healthy and godly marriage in premarital counseling. Issues they address include commitment, leaving and cleaving, honoring your spouse, communication, managing conflict and more.
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| 0:00.0 | Greg, the marriage team here at Focus on the Family reports that 93% of Americans say having a |
| 0:11.1 | happy marriage is one of their most important objectives in life. 93%. That's a big number. |
| 0:17.9 | But a significant percentage of marriages, they will end in divorce. And about |
| 0:22.7 | half of all divorces will occur within the first seven years of marriage. Why? You know, |
| 0:29.7 | Jesus really gave the answer 2,000 years ago. Let me listen to what he said. So he's giving |
| 0:36.0 | us the why. |
| 0:37.9 | Okay. |
| 0:43.2 | He says that Moses permitted you to divorce because of the hardness of your hearts, |
| 0:45.4 | but that wasn't the way in the beginning. |
| 0:48.7 | In other words, what he's saying there is that when we get married, |
| 0:51.0 | our hearts aren't hardened to each other. |
| 0:51.5 | We're open. |
| 0:52.4 | We're alive. And yet there are some things that happen |
| 0:55.5 | along the way that if couples really understood what can happen, that that creates ultimately |
| 1:02.3 | a hardened heart, if they understood what this is, I'll tell you, people wouldn't have to divorce. |
| 1:09.7 | Well, if that's piqued your curiosity, stay with us today on Focus on the Family with |
| 1:13.9 | Jim Daly. We have a lot more practical, godly advice for couples, especially younger couples, |
| 1:19.5 | about how to prepare for a strong, healthy, long-lasting marriage. I'm John Fuller, and thanks |
| 1:24.8 | for joining us. John, we do want to celebrate marriage. That's a good |
| 1:28.4 | thing. As Proverbs 1822 says, he who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the |
| 1:35.9 | Lord. And as husbands and wives, we're thankful for this wonderful gift God has given us. |
| 1:41.8 | Of course, not everyone will get married. Singleness may be God's |
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