The Plague of a Cruel Husband or Wife (The 10 Marriage Plagues, 9/10)

Here's how we gathered the, and determined what topic to talk about and why.

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So we've been doing this podcast for a long time, about eight years.

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I think we're 450-some episodes in.

Wow.

And [laughs] in that time, we've covered a lotta ground, and people say, you know, "What, h- how long, how, how many things can you say about marriage?" [laughs] And our goal is not to say everything about marriage.

Our goal is to be that voice in your ear that reminds you on a weekly basis that marriage is glorious, God is good, Scripture has our answers, and Christ is King, and the Holy Spirit equips us to live out everything He said.

Mm-hmm.

So in that journey, we've asked people to send in questions, and we've got somewhere between 1,200 and 300 of these questions.

And instead of answering each one individually, uh, we said, "Let's find some themes," and these are the 10 themes that arose.

Mm-hmm.

When people write in, too, it's important to understand who's writing in.

Right.

These don't generally tend to be...

Like, if your marriage is in a pretty good spot, uh, you're not likely to feel compelled-

Mm-hmm

... to write in.

If you're connected to church community, you're connected to family, you're connected to one another, you tend to have other avenues to, to ha- handle stuff.

Right.

And so we see themes arise, um, namely, so a couple of themes.

Isolation, couples feel isolated from one another.

Mm-hmm.

And they are isolated from church.

Mm-hmm.