Protecting Your Marriage, Raising Godly Kids, Finding Your Calling - w/ Jerry Jenkins

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🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In today's episode of the Marriage After God podcast, Aaron interviews Jerry Jenkins, bestselling author of over 195 books including the Left Behind series. With 54 years of marriage and over 71 million books sold, Jerry shares his time-tested wisdom about protecting your marriage through intentional boundaries he calls "hedges."

In this wisdom-filled conversation, we explore:

• Why even strong marriages need protective boundaries

• The seven specific hedges Jerry uses to protect his marriage

• How to identify and create your own personal hedges

• Why quality time with your children matters more than career success

• Practical ways to show respect and love to your spouse daily

• The new challenges social media and technology pose to marriages

• How sharing your love story strengthens your family legacy

Whether you're newly married, raising children, or seeking to protect your marriage from modern temptations, this conversation offers biblical wisdom and practical steps from someone who has faithfully lived what he teaches.

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Connect with Jerry Jenkins:

• Books: "Hedges", "Left Behind Series", and over 195 other titles

• Website: JerryJenkins.com

• Writers Guild: Jerry Jenkins Writers Guild

• Watch: The Chosen TV Series

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KEY WORDS: Marriage After God, Aaron Smith, Jerry Jenkins, marriage protection, family time, parenting wisdom, marriage boundaries, The Chosen, Left Behind, Christian marriage, family legacy, marriage hedges, protecting marriage, quality time, marriage advice, biblical marriage

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0:00.0	Hey friends, I just wanted to talk to you for a few seconds.
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0:15.2	that you just are totally in love with on social media.
0:18.3	And then lastly, if you can leave us a review today, we'd greatly appreciate it.
0:23.1	The algorithms will appreciate it. And so thank you so much for joining us on the marriage
0:27.3	effort God podcast. And I just pray that you enjoy this content.
0:31.7	Hey, everyone. Welcome back to another episode of the marriage effort for God podcast. I'm Aaron Smith,
0:35.1	your host. Today's episode is very special. I get to
0:38.4	interview Jerry Jenkins, the father of Dallas Jenkins, the creator of The Chosen. But Jerry Jenkins,
0:45.3	he is the author of over 195 books, 21 of them New York Times bestsellers. He's the author of
0:52.7	books that I grew up reading called The Left Behind
0:55.6	series. I don't know if any of my listeners have ever read those books, but they're books
1:00.1	about the end times. And Jerry Jenkins has written a book. I think it came out in 1989
1:06.1	originally. It's called Hedges, and they refreshed it now for more modern issues for the readers.
1:15.0	And Hedges is about creating intentional boundaries in your life to protect you from things that might want to get in and cause damage to you and your marriage.
1:25.9	And so I have an awesome conversation with Jerry Jenkins about
1:28.5	these things about his own hedges, about stories about him falling in love with his wife.
1:35.4	But most importantly, we talk about the modern issue with technology, with cell phones, with
1:41.8	social media, and the easy access to pornography, but also to the
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