The Intentional Marriage
Focus on the Family Marriage Podcast
Focus on the Family
4.5 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2022
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Couples who go the distance don't just drift into a successful relationship. Truth be told, it takes consistent effort to succeed in marriage. John, Erin and Greg share how you can stay intentional in striving for a great relationship with your spouse. Featuring Pastor Kevin Thompson.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Jim Daley here. If you like the focus on the family broadcast and haven't |
| 0:04.7 | grown tired of this voice just yet, you'll love my ReFocus podcast. On ReFocus I |
| 0:10.2 | take a deeper dive with a respected thinker on different aspects of culture. I |
| 0:14.4 | ask those hard questions that maybe they don't get that often and I don't |
| 0:18.8 | shy away from challenging topics to help you share God's grace, truth, and love |
| 0:23.6 | with others. So listen to ReFocus with Jim Daley on your favorite streaming app |
| 0:28.3 | today. |
| 0:35.7 | Many of us have known a couple or two that we admire because they stayed |
| 0:40.1 | together a long time. They loved each other well. The couple that comes to mind |
| 0:44.5 | immediately beyond family because we have some really great milestone |
| 0:49.0 | couples in our family are Martha and Jim. They were so loving toward each |
| 0:56.2 | other. He treated her like royalty. She served him like he was the only person in |
| 1:02.6 | her world. They had their moments. They had a love language of humor and and care |
| 1:09.7 | for other people. They were just really really inspirational. And again I'm sure |
| 1:15.4 | you have somebody that comes to mind as well. I'm John Fuller along with Dr. |
| 1:19.6 | Greg Smolley and his wife Aaron and I wonder you know you two have spent a lot |
| 1:24.8 | of time studying marriage. This is your heart and your ministry is marriage. What |
| 1:30.5 | are some words of wisdom or some insights or some people that you've admired? |
| 1:35.0 | Yeah. A couple of things come to mind. I remember one time I couldn't even tell |
| 1:38.6 | you Aaron who the couple was. Maybe you remember. But I noticed when when we |
| 1:43.8 | were praying at some point they instantly reach for each other's hand. And so |
| 1:50.1 | instead of praying I was just staring at them holding hands and just kind of |
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