Coming up on marriage today with Jimmy and Karen. In marriage there are rejected

differences, there are tolerated differences, and there are celebrated

differences. The healing takes place when you start celebrating your differences.

Our whole book is about differences,

and strengths.

So we're different by God's design.

That's what our book is about. We're different by God's design. That's what our book is about.

We're different by God's design,

and it's respecting that difference

that turns a dangerous difference into a dynamic difference.

That's right. difference. This message is called the healing journey of marriage and it surprises some people to hear

that God designed marriage to heal us.

An oxymoron is a self-contradictory statement.

And so the healing journey of marriage sounds like an oxymoron to some people.

Because marriage has damaged so many people, so deeply deeply and sometimes it may not be their

marriage but it may be their parents marriage or you know someone that's an environment

that they grew up with in that damaged them or it could have been a previous marriage or two or three

that deeply damaged them so to hear that marriage is a healing journey is a

shocking thing let me say Karen and I began in marriage hurting each other, deeply damaging each other,

to the brink of divorce, then we healed each other.

And our marriage today, we live in a healed, happy marriage because we found God's way.

Miraculously and by the grace of God,

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