Transparency is one of those things that we want, but we don't always want to go after.

Yeah, it's hard. It's hard to be known in all of your insecurities and your sin and sometimes in your shame.

It's easy to talk about transparency, but it's a lot harder to live it out.

Yes, yes. But God is so good. He invites us to live in the light to be known, to not hide in the darkness.

And to remember that light always pierces the darkness.

So we're going to talk about that today and how why cultivating transparency in your marriage is important and what happens when you do.

Welcome to the Fierce Marriage Podcast where we believe that marriage takes a fierce tenacity that never gives up and refuses to give in.

Here we'll share openly and honestly about all things marriage, sex, communication, finance, priorities, purpose, and everything in between.

Laugh, ponder, and join in on Candid, gospel, centered conversations.

This is Fierce Marriage.

So before we get started, we want to just do some housekeeping here. You're a good housekeeper.

I am. I'm a very good housekeeper.

Very good. Very tight, tight clean house. Every, every, what is the phrase? Every eye is dotted, every tea is crossed. Got in tittle is the word I think.

I don't know. I appreciate you not stealing my line in the intro. You didn't say, we'll see you on the other side. That's my thing.

And you left it for me. I did leave it. Thank you. You're welcome. So thoughtful. Anyway, housekeeping. Not always. Sometimes. Sometimes.

I keep a clean house. Let's not stop today. No. Okay. So if you're, if you've been listening to the fierce marriage podcast for a number of weeks, months, or over a year, then in this content is helping you, we'd appreciate if you leave a rating if you haven't join the army of Raiders and reviewers.

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But we've hit over 100 patrons. I think we have 110 now. That's awesome. Yeah. So yeah. So praise God. You know what? We love about it is it's not about the amount of money or even the amount of. To me, it's more about the amount of people that are behind it. They're involved because it feels like we're locking arms with people that care.

We're putting out a lot of of Christ. Yeah. And that's how I feel like people like us should be kind of funded, you know, to continue the ministry. So if you're not aware of the Patreon is a website that allows you to basically be a patron of people that you believe in creators like us and keep the content coming.

We've used those funds to hire a podcast producer, which helps us with this whole process of creating this and also doing the interviews, which we brought on more interviews. We have some amazing guests coming up. We've already had two amazing interviews. And there's more coming. We've already done, I think, two other interviews. And we have more than recorded. And they'll be released in time.

So if you want to be part of that, we're actually giving away our prayer books to anybody or the first 100. I think it's 90 people actually now. Yeah, because it was 110. Yeah. Yeah, we have 90 slots left. If you join at the $5 patron level or higher, we'll give you a coupon to get free books to free books. And that's worth I think about 25 bucks. So anyway, Patreon.com slash fierce marriage that's TATR EON.com slash fierce marriage. And those 90 slots are just for getting the book that you can definitely if they're like, oh, there's a lot of people that are going to be in the world.

They're like, you can definitely say, oh, they're all filled to 200 already. No, we are definitely trying to grow. Thank you. We want to get to 500 next goal. And what that will allow us to do is start creating local events and a framework for that to happen in the future. So you're definitely sewing seed and something that will bear fruit in the years to come. Not just a free book today.

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