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Building a Vision for Your Marriage in 2025: Intentionality, Reflection and Connection

Kick off the New Year by creating a vision for your marriage that sets the tone for growth, intimacy, and connection in 2025. In this episode, we discuss how to reflect on the past year, evaluate key areas of life, and intentionally craft goals for the year ahead through a Vision Retreat. Learn practical tools, gain spiritual insights, and discover how this time of planning can deepen your bond and align your marriage with God’s purpose. Plus, we share personal stories and tips for making your retreat both meaningful and fun.

Vision Retreat Tools:

• Reflection Guide
• The Mountaintop of Marriage Vision Retreat Guidebook

Verses:

• Proverbs 29:18: When people do not accept divine guidance, they run wild. But whoever obeys the law is joyful.
• 2 Corinthians 13:5: Examine yourselves to see if your faith is genuine. Test yourselves. Surely you know that Jesus Christ is among you; if not, you have failed the test of genuine faith.
• John 10:10: The thief does not come except to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I have come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly.

Resource List:

Here are some excellent Christian marriage books that you can recommend to your listeners, complete with links for purchase:

• The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts by Gary Chapman
  • This bestseller focuses on understanding and expressing love through five key "languages" to strengthen emotional connections in marriage.
• Sacred Marriage: What If God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy? by Gary Thomas
  • This thought-provoking book emphasizes how marriage can help individuals grow closer to God while growing together as a couple.
• Love and Respect: The Love She Most Desires; The Respect He Desperately Needs by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs
  • Based on biblical principles, this book explores the dynamics of love and respect in building a thriving marriage.
• For Women Only / For Men Only Series by Shaunti and Jeff Feldhahn
  • This series offers gender-specific insights into the needs and perspectives of spouses, helping couples understand each other better.
• You and Me Forever: Marriage in Light of Eternity by Francis and Lisa Chan
  • This book challenges couples to see marriage as a way to glorify God and focus on eternal perspectives.

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Links to Focus On The Family: 

• Website: www.focusonthefamily.com
• Dr. Danny Huerta's Book: 7 Traits of Effective Parenting by Dr. Danny Huerta (VP of Parenting & Youth)