BONUS - 13 Marriage Lessons in 13 Minutes
08/09/19 • 20 min
Just last week we celebrated 13 years of marriage! Feeling generous and wanting to celebrate a little more we decided to bring you a BONUS episode this week. We are sharing our top 13 pieces of marriage advice we have learned the hard way or through good advice given to us. To make it even more fun, we are sharing all 13 in 13 minutes! Share with a spouse or married friend today!
Show Notes:
1. Communicate!! Expectations for everything from weekend plans, special days and holidays, to household responsibilities.
2. Plan for big stuff, savor the little simple stuff. Contentment.
3. Team mentality in everything! You are ONE now, so act like it. Serve the other well.
4. Never bad mouth one another to other people. Always build up your spouse publicly. Be each other's biggest cheerleader.
5. Don't try to change your spouse......but do push each other to grow! Set goals together, read books and articles together, listen to podcasts and talk about them, share biblical truth and your bible study with one another.
6. Dream big together!
7. Have sex. When you are happy, when you are grieving, when things feel wonky between you two, on a Tuesday. Sex is often the bridge back to each other.
8. Be on the same page financially and always be honest! Have regular budget check ins, communicate when changes might come up.
9. Stay unified no matter what, in all areas (parenting, ministry, career, friendships, money, etc.) Even if you have to pull away from other relationships, this relationship is the priority above all - even your children!!!
10. Have FUN!!! Be silly, competitions, date nights on the couch or out. Plan fun things to do and memories to make.
11. Get away. TOGETHER.
12. Get away. ALONE. ....time out with friends, time for them to go do whatever they want to do (hike, shop, read, yoga).
13. PRAY! Cover your spouse in prayer, pray for how you treat/approach them, pray for your struggles, hopes and dreams. Pray to be unified and love each other through all seasons.
Recommended Resources: - You and Me Forever by Francis and Lisa Chan - Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas - Mingling of Souls by Matt and Lauren Chandler - The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman - Becoming Us by Beth and Jeff McCord
What We Are Loving: Daniel - Pizza Combos Heather - Nut Thins crackers in Sriracha flavor.
Find Us Here:
Daniel www.danielritchie.org
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Heather Instagram
Just last week we celebrated 13 years of marriage! Feeling generous and wanting to celebrate a little more we decided to bring you a BONUS episode this week. We are sharing our top 13 pieces of marriage advice we have learned the hard way or through good advice given to us. To make it even more fun, we are sharing all 13 in 13 minutes! Share with a spouse or married friend today!
Show Notes:
1. Communicate!! Expectations for everything from weekend plans, special days and holidays, to household responsibilities.
2. Plan for big stuff, savor the little simple stuff. Contentment.
3. Team mentality in everything! You are ONE now, so act like it. Serve the other well.
4. Never bad mouth one another to other people. Always build up your spouse publicly. Be each other's biggest cheerleader.
5. Don't try to change your spouse......but do push each other to grow! Set goals together, read books and articles together, listen to podcasts and talk about them, share biblical truth and your bible study with one another.
6. Dream big together!
7. Have sex. When you are happy, when you are grieving, when things feel wonky between you two, on a Tuesday. Sex is often the bridge back to each other.
8. Be on the same page financially and always be honest! Have regular budget check ins, communicate when changes might come up.
9. Stay unified no matter what, in all areas (parenting, ministry, career, friendships, money, etc.) Even if you have to pull away from other relationships, this relationship is the priority above all - even your children!!!
10. Have FUN!!! Be silly, competitions, date nights on the couch or out. Plan fun things to do and memories to make.
11. Get away. TOGETHER.
12. Get away. ALONE. ....time out with friends, time for them to go do whatever they want to do (hike, shop, read, yoga).
13. PRAY! Cover your spouse in prayer, pray for how you treat/approach them, pray for your struggles, hopes and dreams. Pray to be unified and love each other through all seasons.
Recommended Resources: - You and Me Forever by Francis and Lisa Chan - Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas - Mingling of Souls by Matt and Lauren Chandler - The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman - Becoming Us by Beth and Jeff McCord
What We Are Loving: Daniel - Pizza Combos Heather - Nut Thins crackers in Sriracha flavor.
Find Us Here:
Daniel www.danielritchie.org
Twitter || Facebook ||Instagram
Heather Instagram
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Don't Treat Me Like That
Hatefulness has become the language of the day and even worse, it plays out in our actions with others. Particularly if they look, think or act differently than I do. Today we talk about the uncomfortable things going on in our society as a result of not viewing one another first, as image bearers of God. We hope this episode, while hard to hear at times, might just help you to check your heart and make sure you are treating others with dignity and respect. To treat others how you want to be treated. SHOW NOTES • Don’t judge a book by its cover. • We have to get past seeing people with a label first. • Symptoms of hate include: racism, sexism, tribalism. - Tribalism even exists within the Church. We have to stop tearing one another apart and hurting the name of Christ. • There is power in the Imago Dei - because they are created in the image of God, they are valuable! • Ask, “are there sinful narratives and privileges I have been born into that now inform how I see others?” If so, repent, ask for God’s discernment in how to view people without hate or fear attached. • BE KIND. Treat everyone you meet with kindness! It takes effort and intentionality. • Listen to other’s experiences to learn what you do not know. This requires humility and often, repentance. But without it, we will not empathize with one another and enter into other’s sufferings the way Christ did for us. What We Are Loving: Daniel - Righteous Wretch apparel. Heather - Made For This podcast with Jennie Allen, episode 4.
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The Problem with #FollowYourDreams: 1. It is a shame tactic. - Ephesians 3:20
2. We are not our own.
-We have died and our lives are hidden with Christ. Including our dreams. - Colossians 3:1-3 - 1 Peter 4:2 - 1 Corinthians 6:20
3. It is a comparison trap. - Look at the life of Joseph.
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