Marriage really is a constant opportunity for lavish grace, but at the same time, there's

often this temptation to withhold it or not even ask for it when we need it.

Welcome to Family Life today, where we want to help you pursue the relationships that

matter most. I'm Ann Wilson. Yes you are, and I'm Dave Wilson, and you can find us at FamilyLifeToday.com or on the Family Life app.

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So what a week, Grace Week. Fun week. I mean, we've been talking about Grace all week.

I've been learning a lot of you. I mean, you talk about a topic that you can't talk enough about.

The grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ can never be overexplained. I mean, you talk about needing to understand.

Ann, applying it to marriages, and today we get to play it specifically to marriage.

We've got David and Meg Robbins back in the studio, the president of FamilyLife. Welcome back, guys.

Thanks. We love getting to sit around the table and talk to y'all.

So let's talk a little bit about Grace. Here's a clip from Dane Orton. You guys know Dane.

I mean, he's amazing, and here's a clip that we recorded previously.

You wrote in chapter two, I think it is impossible for the affectionate heart of Christ to be over celebrated,

made too much of, exaggerated. It cannot be plumbed, but it is easily neglected, forgotten.

We draw two little strength from it. And then you say this, when Christ sees the fallenness of the world,

and it's effect on his people, he moves toward that sin and suffering, he does not turn away from it.

And forever we've had the opposite picture. He turns away from me, and I sort of have to turn away from him.

Sometimes I go, wait, are you saying we can't over celebrate this? You are.

Yes, he says his heart is gentle, only his heart. We know from the testimony of Old Testament,

and knew the heart is not anything frothy. It's not merely your emotional or affectional life.

It's what pours out most deeply from your innermost core. And when Jesus tells us what his heart is,

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