5 Tips to Jump Start Your Marriage

<p>On today’s episode we are talking about 5 things you can do to jump start your marriage... or 5 things that we should all be continually doing in our marriage, if we want them to be healthy and God glorifying.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>NOTES:</strong></p> <ul> <li>This Weeks Whiskey: J.T.S. Brown Kentucky Bourbon - Heaven Hill Distillery</li> <li>Pappy Van Winkle Cigar</li> <li>Christian B. was a guest on Chad and Tyler's podcast, "The Honest Cigar Experience" recently, to talk marriage and gave 5 Tips to Jump Start Your Marriage.</li> <ul> <li>Episode 61 - "5 Steps to a Thriving Marriage with Christian Bringolf" - <a href= "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-honest-cigar-experience/id1525048020?i=1000541075201"> https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-honest-cigar-experience/id1525048020?i=1000541075201</a></li> </ul> </ul> <p> </p> <p>5 Tips to Jump Start Your Marriage:</p> <ol> <li>Know why your marriage is not functioning well.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></li> <li>Don't make happiness your goal in marriage</li> <li>Protect your marriage</li> <li>Steward your marriage well</li> <li>Lead from a place of humility</li> </ol> <p> </p> <ul> <li>What does it mean protect your marriage?<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></li> <li>When we make "happiness" our goal in marriage, we are willing to sacrifice everything else on the alter of self-satisfaction, chasing our passions and being "true to ourselves"... which really means do what you want, follow your passions and whims and don't judge.</li> <ul> <li>It leads to pursuing immediate gratification and neglect the hard thing and commitments we've made</li> </ul> <li>As Christians, God and His Word is our highest authority... not ourselves, not our minds, not societal trends.</li> <li>In the Bible, God designed men to protect and defend their family, property and stand up to evil.</li> <ul> <li>While many Christian men are willing to physically "lay down their life" for their wife or family... it's more likely that our greatest thre