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Within our current context, marriage has been downgraded to the realm of subjective, personal indulgence. However, when we start to search out the scriptures we find that the biblical authors had something much more robust and concrete when they communicate God's design for marriage.

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Today's episode is all about friendship and Tom has a great framework to help us identify the quality of friends we currently have.

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Today, Tom explores the idea that our lives are shaped by what we say 'yes' and 'no' to. Throughout the conversation, he provides two things to which we should always say yes, and two things to which we should always say no.

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Today, Tom talks about the importance of remembering, and highlights the tools God has given us to do so.

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This week we turn our focus to the subject of success. The culture around us tells us to pursue our ideal selves at the expense of everything else. Scripture, as it always does, flips the status quo on its head and says to pursue God at the expense of ourselves. As we do, we'll start to see three things that will be required as we pursue life His way.

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If you've listened to the show for a while now, you've picked up on the importance of clear communication, affirmation, and shared values when it comes to general effectiveness in life. Today, Tom will frame all of these attributes within the context of the family.

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Today we continue part two of our series on Grace. If you missed part one, you can listen here: https://pointtaken.libsyn.com/episode-143-grace-part-1

You might also be interested in listening to our episode called "The Grace Test" from November 2018: https://pointtaken.libsyn.com/episode-11-the-grace-test

Grace allows you to experience a reality that you have no ability to create on your own. We talk about this in-depth in today's episode and discuss how to be cheerful distributers of underserved merit to others.

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The past few weeks we've been discussing the power that lies within our words. In the last episode, we talked about how life can flow from our words. They have the potential to draw out hope and inspiration from other people. Today, we examine the other hand and discover how destructive unbridled words can truly be. Gossip destroys relationships. Consequently, God's word has a lot of warning we should heed as we reflect on the words we allow ourselves to use.

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In this week's episode, we continue the discussion on "words" by turning our attention to life-giving words. Tom provides three types of life-giving words every person needs to hear.

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