Curated by It’s That Part™ — Originally published by Faith and Proverbs on .
Courtney Doctor, Melissa Kruger, Vanessa Hawkins, and Jen Wilkin have each been married for more than 25 years.
In this conversation, they talk about how marriage was different from what they expected, what practices have strengthened their marriages through life’s ebbs and flows, and the worst marriage advice they’ve heard.
Recommended Resources:
- Single, Dating, Engaged, Married by Ben Stuart
- Sacred Marriage by Gary Thomas
Related Content:
- Growing Your Marriage While Having Young Kids
- Sustaining the Covenant of Marital Love
- Marriage in Gospel Focus
- A Biblical View of Marriage
Discussion Questions:
1. What does spending quality time together look like in this season of your lives?
2. What’s the best (or worst) piece of relationship advice you’ve received? What made it helpful or harmful?
3. What strengths do you see in yourself and your spouse? How have those strengths balanced out areas of weakness in different seasons of your lives?
4. Can you think of a way to rearrange your priorities in order to strengthen your marriage (or your future marriage)?
5. Which “one another” commands come the easiest to you? Which are most difficult, and how might you seek to live those out increasingly?
6. In what ways has God used your marriage to sanctify you?
7. What do you want to pray for your spouse, your marriage, or yourself based on what you’ve heard and discussed?
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