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.

NOTES:

• This Weeks Whiskey: J.T.S. Brown Kentucky Bourbon - Heaven Hill Distillery
• Pappy Van Winkle Cigar
• 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.
• • Episode 61 - "5 Steps to a Thriving Marriage with Christian Bringolf" - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-honest-cigar-experience/id1525048020?i=1000541075201

5 Tips to Jump Start Your Marriage:

1. Know why your marriage is not functioning well. 
2. Don't make happiness your goal in marriage
3. Protect your marriage
4. Steward your marriage well
5. Lead from a place of humility

• What does it mean protect your marriage? 
• 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.
• • It leads to pursuing immediate gratification and neglect the hard thing and commitments we've made
• As Christians, God and His Word is our highest authority... not ourselves, not our minds, not societal trends.
• In the Bible, God designed men to protect and defend their family, property and stand up to evil.
• • While many Christian men are willing to physically "lay down their life" for their wife or family... it's more likely that our greatest threat to our marriage is not external... but internal.
  • The greatest threat is internal - The greatest threat is the husband not leading well and sinning against his own family.
  • Ephesians 5
• To steward our marriage well means to recognize that the marriage and your spouse doesn't ultimately belong to you but rather, it belongs to God and you are to take good care of it, as if it was yours.
• How would we treat our view our spouses differently if we saw God as our Father-in-law?
• We as husbands need to "practice" at our marriage. Marriage is a perishable skill and we have to work at it to get better and cultivate our wife.

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