Episode Details

This week's episode is brought to you by our newest book "Marriage After God: Chasing Boldly After God’s Purpose for Your Life Together." One of our motivations for writing Marriage After God was to help inspire couples to consider how they can use what they have to serve God together. Sometimes we need that “

out of the box” thinking to get us to see the bigger picture or possibilities that lay right in front of us. 

Instead of seeing ministry as a Sunday service practice, we encourage couples to see their marriage as a ministry, a reflection of God’s love in this world. 

Grab Your Copy of marriage after God today! Amazon.com

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Hi, and welcome to the Marriage After God podcast.

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We're your host Aaron and Jennifer Smith.

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We have been married 15 years and have five sweet children who are growing up way too fast. We

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Love God and we love marriage,

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And we love to be honest about it all.

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Marriage is not always a walk in the park, but we do believe it has a powerful purpose.

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So our goal here is to open up the conversation to talk about our faith and our

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Marriage, especially in light of the gospel.

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We certainly don't have all the answers, but if you stick around, we may just make you laugh.

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But our hope is to encourage you to chase boldly after God's purpose for your life together.

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This is Marriage after God.

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Welcome back to another episode of The Marriage After God podcast. I'm Aaron.

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I'm Jen

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. We're happy to be here today. We're gonna be talking about marriage in light of God's plan versus our own plan, which sometimes seems like they conflict . So we're just gonna be talking about our heart postures towards that and how we should respond to that, um, as believers as as a couple, um, because we all experience that

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Today's episode is brought to you by our book Marriage After God. One of our motivations for writing this book was to inspire couples to consider how they can use what they have to serve God together. Sometimes we need that extra out of the box thinking to get us to see the bigger picture or possibilities that lay right in front of us. So our hope is that you guys would be inspired by this book that we wrote for you. You can get a copy@amazon.com or shop dot marriage after god.com.

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Awesome. So, uh, you know, it's interesting is this book Marriage After God talks about a lot of the things, um, that we experience in our life also about, um, missed expectations and how God used them, um, uh, directions that we thought we were going on, but how God was redirecting us and giving us different paths for our lives, different visions for our lives, essentially where we're at today is not something that we planned on being, you know, authors and what we're doing today with our podcast. It was never an idea in our minds when we first got married. Mm-hmm. . But look where we're at. Yep. So,

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Yeah, the style of podcasting we do, the books that we write, everything comes from our experiences and what, So even just doing this season here and we've pretty much covered a lot of what we went through last year, right? Yeah. So today's episode is just a piece of that .

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Yeah. Just talking about the, because to be honest, that's all we have to share with everyone is what we Yeah. What w