By Scott & Dawn Smith
Welcome to the Forever Marriage Podcast! Forever Marriage at Lakewood exists to strengthen families by helping couples discover God’s design for marriage. One of our hopes for the FM Podcast is to
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In Season 5 Episode 5 of the Forever Marriage Podcast, we talk about how, if you want to rekindle romance, you must mind the little things.
Proverbs 3:3 says, "Do not let kindness and truth leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart." Before we know it, kindness and truth get replaced with complacency and exaggeration. So, what simple daily or weekly acts of kindness can you take to show honor to your spouse?
Could you make their coffee in the morning?
Take the kids to school?
Unload the dishwasher?
Take out the trash?
These seemingly "little" and mundane things can add up to help rekindle romance in marriage.
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In Season 5 Episode 4 of the Forever Marriage Podcast, we talk about how, if you want to rekindle romance, you must observe your parter.
1 Peter 3:7, Peter says, “You husbands, likewise, live with your wives in an understanding way.” To understand someone you have to know them. To know them, you must spend time with them. Would your spouse say the two of you spend adequate time together? Why is time together an important part of not only observing one another but also understanding one another?
It's important to become a student of your spouse. Study them to learn…
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In Season 5 Episode 3 of the Forever Marriage Podcast, we continue our talk about how, if we want to rekindle romance, the first thing we have to do is to "remember what’s good about our mate."
After the newness of marriage has worn off, it's easy to let our differences become barriers to our intimacy in marriage. These differences can be frustrating sources of contention and bitterness. But it's important that we, instead, let our differences serve as bridges. How do we do this?
We must accept one another (Rom. 15:7). Our acceptance of one another must be in the same way that Christ accepted us. How did he accept us? Romans 5:8 says, "While we were still sinners, Christ died for us."
In this episode Scott and Dawn also mention a helpful tool to utilize when faced with a frustrating difference you see in your spouse - a series of questions to ask yourself regarding your spouse's actions.
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In Season 5 Episode 2 of the Forever Marriage Podcast, we talk about how if we want to rekindle romance, the first thing we have to do is to "remember what’s good about our mate."
We can’t experience romance with a hard heart and so we must consider how to have a soft heart toward one another. We must work on how we see each other, how we think about each other, and how we speak to each other.
Our way of seeing each other matters. Dawn says, "I have to have a filter for how I see my husband… and that comes from a biblical worldview that I have adopted. We relate to each other through the lens of these three unchanging truths - as an image bearer of a holy God, as a child of God, and as an heir with Jesus. These are identity statements that do no change. We then are privileged to fulfill the roles of husband or wife."
How we view each other and how we understand our own identity empowers us to fulfill those roles as husband or wife in a way that honors the Lord and keeps our marriage growing and thriving.
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If we want to rekindle romance, the first thing we have to do is remember what’s good about our mate.
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Welcome to Season 5 of the Forever Marriage Podcast!
If you're new with us, welcome to the show! My name is Emily Lavender and I'm joined by Scott & Dawn Smith. We are on staff at Lakewood Baptist Church in Gainesville, GA, and we are excited that you have tuned in! This is a marriage podcast where we hope you'll be encouraged to grow deeper in your understanding of God's design for marriage. You'll be equipped with practical action steps for your marriage, but you're also bound to have some good laughs along with us as we share from our own experiences.
If you've been tracking with us in our previous seasons, we are so glad you're still with us! Of course, you know Scott loves to teach through an acrostic... SO, in this episode, we introduce the one we'll be working through this season - how to Rekindle R.O.M.A.N.C.E. in marriage.
We'll consider questions like - What is romance? How do we "rekindle" the romance in our marriage if it's gone away? What does the Bible say about romance?
In this episode you’ll hear…
Stay tuned for Episode 2, where we talk about the first way to rekindle romance, which is to remember what's good about your mate.
In Season 4 Episode 17 of the Forever Marriage Podcast, we conclude this series with the final One Another of Scripture - Forgive One Another. In Ephesians 4:32, Paul says, "Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ forgave you." The measuring stick for how we are to forgive is how God forgave us. SO in this episode we talk about what forgiveness IS NOT and what forgiveness IS.
Consider as you listen to today's episode: Is there are particular person in your life that your heart is calloused or hard hearted toward?
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In Season 4 Episode 16 of the Forever Marriage Podcast, we continue to talk about Scripture's imperative to love one another, and specifically about love's empowerment and love's teacher.
1 Thessalonians 3:12 says, "and may the Lord cause you to increase and abound in love for one another, and for all men, just as we also do for you."
Can you recall a time when you knew with certainty that God was empowering your ability to love someone that was unlovely? Love is based on His love for us and not the other person's loveliness. Our ability or inability to love others as God loves them is a testament to our growth and maturity in Christ. It is also a testimony to an unbelieving world of the reality and power of the gospel.
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In Season 4 Episode 15 of the Forever Marriage Podcast, we continue our talk about Scripture's imperative to love one another. We started this conversation in the previous episode, but we pick back up with it in today's episode.
As we can see in Scripture, love is a command and not a suggestion. Why would Jesus command us to love one another? What does this mean for marriage? We talk about how it can be a challenge to love sometimes. But love is based on Christ's example, and not whether the person has earned it or not, or upon whether we feel like giving it. And finally, our love for one another is a demonstration of the reality and power of the Gospel.
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In Season 4 Episode 14 of the Forever Marriage Podcast, we talk about Scripture's imperative to love one another.
But first, by way of teaser for tomorrow night's event, Forever Marriage LIVE, we talk about what romance is and what it is not. We will gather tomorrow night at 6PM at Lakewood Baptist Church to hear Scott & Dawn talk about how to Rekindle R.O.M.A.N.C.E. It's not too late to register! We hope you will join us for this fun filled date night experience, where you will be equipped with tools to help you and spouse keep the love light burning!
Back to our episode. Very simply, what is love? How do we measure love? What does God's word say about love? Jesus, in John 13:34 says, "A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, also love one another." So what does this look like for us in marriage? Tune in to this week's episode to hear a discussion on this one another of Scripture.
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In Season 4 Episode 13 of the Forever Marriage Podcast, we cover the last 3 ways of the 10 ways to outdo one another in showing honor.
First, we talk about seeking the good for one another. Out of honor for God and honor for your spouse, can you seek their good?
Next, we talk about stimulating one another to love and good deeds. Familiarity in marriage can breed complacency and indifference, so we must give some forethought for how we can stimulate, or spur on, one another.
Finally, we talk about submitting to one another. Submission is given because we love and revere Christ. Our culture views submission negatively. It's seen as "lording over someone to press them down." Biblical submission says, "I come under you to lift you up. I want to help you experience God's fullness in your life. I want for you what God wants for you."
Consider: Of the 10 ways to outdo one another in showing honor, which one struck you most? What do you believe God now wants you to do in obedience? If you need to go back and listen again, we covered the 10 ways in episodes 8-13.
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