Putnam City Baptist Church Marriage & Family Podcast

This includes highlights from a message by Steve Stroupe where he shares the fact that there is hope 4 every marriage. He believes that hope comes from your "faith centered in God" and not yourself. A couple must believe that God can do something that they can't do in their marriage, and that God maybe knows something that they don't know about their marriage. He uses examples of how miserable he and his wife were when they first m...

Marriage Masterpiece comes from segments of a lecture to seminary students studying marriage and the home. The instructor compares marriage to being on either a cruise ship or battleship. He explains that every life is shaped by a marriage ranging from good to bad. He says that God has a design for marriage and goes through the Bible pointing out in scripture how a marriage should be a covenant, a passionate, a heroic, and one-side...

This is an interview with a couple celebrating their 40th year of marriage. Their goal is to do 40 things that they have never done during their 41st year of marriage. Some of things on their list include going on a prayer retreat; flying in a glider; going to Branson and visiting the Noah exhibit; having a picnic at a wildlife adventure park; mentoring several young couples in their church; and becoming extra grandparents to a fam...

“Theology of the Body” includes the highlights of a message by Christopher West where he introduces the importance of the incarnation of Jesus Christ. West reminds us that God’s mystery has been made visible – in the flesh through Jesus Christ. There is a relationship between our physical being and our spiritual being that is good and not ugly. He reminds us that what we do with our body should glorify God. The beauty of marriage b...

This is an interview with a couple that explains all the challenges they faced through their 14 years of marriage. Their story includes problems involving financial, mental, medical, emotional and sexual problems which they faced. They concluded that by not giving up when that was so easy to do, but to love each other and God, that they could survive. Some very dramatic experiences that many couples don't experience which makes the...

This is an interview with a couple married twelve years who have learned how to make adjustments in their busy lives. The husband travels every week with his job and the mom is at home with the children. The first part of the interview deals with intimacy and is summed up with the saying, "You cannot be right horizontally with your spouse if you are not right vertically with God." The second part of the interview deals with parenti...

Intentional Couples includes excerpts from a workshop on "Marriages that Last." Steve Stroupe leads the conference and gives three pillars that a strong marriage relationship should be based on. The first pillar is "Love is a decision and not a feeling." Love is a choice and we cannot let our feelings create our choices. The second pillar is "acceptance of your mate." We must remember that we cannot depend upon our spouse to make u...

Strengths @ Home involves highlights from Rodney Cox and John Trent as they discuss strengths and differences in marriage relationships. John Trent is very creative in describing how God sometimes puts opposites together in marriage. Trent uses a lion, otter, golden retriever, and beaver to show how the home could be like Wild Kingdom when each person has different strengths that come out in a marriage. The goal is to use our oppos...