The Wedding Is Planned, But Have You Prepared Your Heart? Interview with Gary Thomas | Ep. 301
Awesome Marriage Podcast
Dr. Kim Kimberling
4.9 • 813 Ratings
🗓️ 14 February 2019
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today on the podcast we welcome back Gary Thomas. Gary Thomas is a bestselling author and international speaker. We've had Gary on the podcast in the past talking about how to cherish your spouse. In this episode Dr. Kim & Gary about one of our favorite topics, engagement.
In Gary's new book, Preparing Your Heart For Marriage, he coaches engaged couples on how to grow closer to the Lord in the days leading up to the wedding as a means of preparing them for all the days after the wedding.
Tune in to learn more about how to prepare your heart for marriage!
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- Order Gary's book, Preparing Your Heart For Marriage.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the awesome marriage podcast, a place for honest conversations about marriage and practical advice on how to have a God-honoring awesome marriage. |
| 0:09.6 | I am your podcast producer and co-host Christina Dodson. |
| 0:12.8 | On the show will be your host, Dr. Kim Kimberling. |
| 0:15.5 | Dr. Kim is a marriage counselor and has been married for over 40 years. |
| 0:19.7 | His passion is to help you strengthen your most |
| 0:22.3 | intimate relationship. Well, welcome today, the awesome marriage podcast today. We welcome back |
| 0:28.4 | Gary Thomas. Gary is a best-selling author. He's an international speaker. We've had him on the |
| 0:33.0 | podcast in the past talking about how to cherish our spouse. Today we're going to be talking about one of my favorite topics, and that's engagement. |
| 0:40.7 | Gary's new book is Preparing Your Heart for Marriage. |
| 0:42.8 | He coaches engaged couples on how to grow closer to the Lord in the days leading up to the |
| 0:47.4 | wedding. |
| 0:48.1 | It's a means of preparing them for all the days after the wedding. |
| 0:51.8 | Gary, I'm excited to talk about preparing for marriage today and welcome |
| 0:55.4 | back to the awesome marriage podcast. Well, thank you so much for having me back. Oh, it's good to have |
| 1:00.9 | you back and all that kind of, all that kind of good stuff. And so it has been over a year since we |
| 1:06.1 | talked. And so kind of catch up our listeners on what's going on with you. What have you been up to |
| 1:10.6 | this past year? |
| 1:12.5 | Well, my life doesn't actually change that much. |
| 1:15.4 | I travel around speaking on marriage. |
| 1:17.6 | I'm here at Second Baptist Church in Houston, Texas, where I will preach. |
| 1:21.2 | And just working with couples, helping to prepare them for marriage. |
| 1:25.3 | So that's pretty much what I do. |
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