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Marriage is an adventure with lots of unknowns. Every couple will have plenty of questions about how to successfully weave two lives into one. And yet, when it comes to asking questions about the most personal, intimate human relationship we’ll ever have, we often become ineffectively reserved. Why this hesitancy, even though we often desperately want answers? Revealing the nitty-gritty concerns...

Marriage is to reflect the relationship of Christ and his church (Eph. 5:31–33), and that involves the peace and reconciliation that we have in Christ. If our relationship with God is not in order, we cannot expect our marriages to be. “You cannot get second things by putting them first; you can get second things only by putting first things first” (C. S. Lewis, God in the Dock, “First and Second Things,” p. 281). As conflicts arise we must not let the sun go down on our anger, but “speaking the
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