Summary: EPISODE 21 A book report: Real Marriage: the truth about sex, friendship, and life together INTRO This is Michael Smalley, the host of the Smalley Podcast: inspiration for your relationships! THIS EPISODE BROUGHT TO YOU BY The Smalley Center, find out why over 96% of our former clients would recommend our 1, 2, or 3 day marriage intensive to a friend or family member in need of help. Rediscover happiness at SmalleyCenter.com. KEY VERSE “When I was a child, I spoke and thought and reasoned as a child. But when I grew up, I put away childish things..” 1 Corinthians 13:11 (Interesting that this is in the smack dab in the chapter on love! NOTES There is nothing wrong with being a boy, so long as you are a boy. But there is a lot wrong with being a boy when you are supposed to be a man. To paraphrase Paul: “When I was a boy, I talked like a boy, I thought like a boy, I reasoned like a boy. When I became a man, I put childish and boyish ways behind me.”a A lot of guys fight the transition from boy to man because they despise responsibility. Enabling this type of guy are a legion Driscoll, Mark (2012-01-03). Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together (p. 43). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. Tough and Tender Honor your wife emotionally and physically Here are a few practical tips for husbands in addition to some of the things mentioned above: As the family leader, model humility, honesty, repentance, service, study, and worship. Your life preaches at least as loudly as your words, so teach and model humble godliness by the grace of God. Make sure everyone in your family has a good, age-appropriate Bible that they regularly read. Read the Bible yourself and with them so they are encouraged to read on their own. Buy good Christian books for everyone in your family to read. Include Christian biographies among those books. Choose good books that you and your wife can be reading together, including books of the Bible, and discuss what you are learning. Have dinner together with your family most nights, and use that time to pray together, keep a journal log of prayer requests for other people, and read a portion of the Bible and talk about it together. Place a hand on the head of each of your children every day and pray over them. Then kiss them on the head and make sure they often get a loving hug. Driscoll, Mark (2012-01-03). Real Marriage: The Truth About Sex, Friendship, and Life Together (p. 63). Thomas Nelson. Kindle Edition. NEXT EPISODE Taking out the trash: forgiveness! THIS EPISODE WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY The Smalley Center, find out why over 96% of our former clients would recommend our 1, 2, or 3 day marriage intensive to a friend or family member in need of help. Rediscover happiness at SmalleyCenter.com.
