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MarriageToday with Jimmy & Karen Evans

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Religion & Spirituality, Relationships, Kids & Family, Parenting, Society & Culture, Christianity

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🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Welcome to the MarriageToday Podcast, with Jimmy Evans. In today's episode, we'll delve into the essential elements of creating an honest and healthy family life. I'll share some personal experiences about the challenges I faced with communication in my own marriage and emphasize why effective communication and timely conflict resolution are pivotal. We'll discuss the risks of harboring anger overnight and the significance of addressing and resolving disputes before the day ends. Join me as we explore the virtues of honesty, humility, teachability, and grace in nurturing a transparent and loving family environment. Let's learn together how to be more relational, responsible, and gracious in our family lives. ------------------------- Join XO Now For More Content Like This!:https://www.xonow.com/ For all links mentioned in episode & more XO content, visit: https://linktr.ee/marriagetoday ------------------------- Chapters 00:00 Introduction: Building an Honest and Healthy Family Life 01:54 The Importance of Effective Communication in Marriage 05:10 Resolving Conflicts and Processing Anger in Relationships 08:58 The Role of Humility, Teachability, and Grace in Building an Honest Family 13:41 The Importance of Equality and Respect in Marriage 26:46 The Power of Grace in Building an Honest Family 30:01 Conclusion: Embracing God's DNA in Our Families Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Mary State Podcast, I'm Jimmy Evans and in today's episode we're
0:08.6	focusing on the crucial elements of building an honest and healthy family life. Our conversation will also cover key
0:15.8	themes such as honesty, humility, effective communication, and treating each other with
0:21.4	equality and respect.
0:23.0	To watch more series like this,
0:24.0	click on the link in the description
0:26.0	for a seven-day free trial on XO now.
0:29.0	God bless you.
0:30.0	This man This message today, we're talking about healthy family, both our families at home and also our family here at the church.
0:41.0	This message is called building an honest family. the I want to start this message by saying this this was the worst area of our marriage
0:54.7	we were terrible our homes you know Karen and I came out of homes that our parents were
1:00.5	good people wonderful people better people than they should have, but they just didn't know how to communicate.
1:05.0	My mom and dad did not know how to communicate.
1:08.0	Karen's parents did not know how to communicate.
1:10.0	And when Karen and I got married, we were just terrible.
1:12.0	I mean, we absolutely did not know how to communicate,
1:14.4	so much so that we almost divorced.
1:17.1	And so I want you to hear me say in this message,
1:21.3	you couldn't get any worse than us when we got married.
1:24.5	You could not be worse communicators than Jimmy and Karen Evans, but this is now one of the
1:29.2	greatest areas of our marriage.
1:31.0	And so a lot of times the reason we struggle is because people just don't talk about these things.
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