Growing up, Karen Larritz didn't see commitment in marriage lived out.

The women in my family ate up men.

They were an endangered species.

These women just ate them up and spit them out.

Either they didn't marry them or they divorced them.

Today, we'll hear what it takes to break that kind of cycle.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Tuesday, We'll hear what it takes to break that kind of cycle.

This is the Revive Our Hearts podcast for Tuesday, August 19th, 2014.

Through most of August, we're studying the life of Joshua, but we're on a two-day break from that study, taking a practical look at marriage.

Today's program will give wives a lot to ponder, but this program is not appropriate for young children.

I hope you'll get your little ears somewhere else and then come back.

Here's Nancy. Yesterday, Pastor Crawford-Laritz took us to the book of Genesis to review God's

design for marriage. Crawford is the pastor of Fellowship Bible Church in the Atlanta area.

He'll be back at the end of today's program,

but first we're going to hear from his wife Karen as she talks straight to women about issues

that she has struggled with, like submission, in marriage. Karen is a woman who's knowledgeable

in God's word. She has a lot of depth to offer, and she speaks as a woman who has learned to live out this message.

Crawford and Karen were speaking at a breakout session at the True Woman 10 conference.

Let's listen.

Let me just read a couple scriptures, a couple scriptures from the word.

An excellent wife is a crown of her husband, but she who shames him is as

rottenness to his bones. Proverbs 12. 4. It is better to live in a corner of a roof and in a house

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