Marriage After God - Are We Living In The Last Days?

Mar 1, 2021

Ways To Have Fun As A Family!

We want to invite you to take our 31-day marriage prayer challenge. These are made possible in part by our faithful prayer team patrons. Datenightconversations.com READ TRANSCRIPT Welcome to the "Marriage After God" podcast. We your hosts, I'm Aaron. And I'm Jennifer. We've been married for 14 years. And we have five young children. We started blogging over 10 years ago sharing our marriage story in hopes of encouraging other husbands and wives to draw closer to God and closer to each other. We have authored over 10 books together including our newest book "Marriage After God" the book that inspired us to start this podcast. "Marriage after God" has a message to remind all of us that God designed marriage with a purpose. To reflect his love. To be a light in this world. To work together as a team. Using what he has given us. To build his kingdom. Our hope is to encourage you along your marriage journey. As you boldly chase after God together. This is "Marriage After God". Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of the "Marriage After God" podcast. We're are Aaron and Jennifer Smith, your hosts. I hope you have an awesome week. I just wanna start off by sharing a little thing that I'm doing with the van, Jennifer. You're going to tell him about the van? The van. Okay, but it was my idea, like give me a little credit. It was definitely your idea. So we love to drive which we'll talk about in the actually today's episode. I have a normal van. Like it's not a minivan. It's not a, what is it? Well, people call it... They call it, it's the full size. It's a Ford transit, it's a big old boy, it's huge. It's got all the seats you could want. For all the kids. But you know what it doesn't have until now, a toilet. But I put a toilet in that van. And the reason we did that is because we like to drive. We like to go on road trips, especially with all the kids. It's so easy to, that's how we go see our family. Yeah. We get in the car and we drive But it takes us like 15 hours to get there. So imagine being on the road with five kids, that's a lot of bathrooms stops and sometimes that's all we're stopping for. And so I told Aaron, we need a bathroom in here even if it's like something easy to sit on and... And it is, and so I've been work. Something I've been doing as a hobby is work at building vans. And so I took my van and I built this box out in the back and I put a toilet in there today. He showed me today, it actually looks really awesome. I'm really excited to use it this spring, summer, fall. All of our adventures. I told them, even if we go. It's gonna change everything. Even if we go to the lake for the day. Imagine how nice it will be when we're out on an adventure and even though we're kind of close to home we don't have to rush home. If someone has to use the bathroom, we can use that. And you're gonna put like a handheld shower thing. There is gonna be a hot water shower in the back? Not like to take a full-blast shower in the van. We can rinse the kids off. We can rinse the boards off. We can, it's just gonna be awesome. So cool, guys I'm stoked about it. I'm pretty proud of myself. I have a friend helped me and we're doing a pretty good job and it's coming out nice. So this is totally in our van now. Called the adventure wagon. Yeah, it's awesome and it fits all the kids. Plus one, if we needed another seat. Oh, interesting. Okay, moving right along. Guys we just want to thank you for being our share warriors. Aaron likes to mention that every week and I think it's an amazing thing that you guys have been sharing your episodes and it's just been a huge encouragement to us but it's also just a great way to get the news out or the the word out about the "Marriage After God" podcast. And so we just wanted to say, thank you, and. Before you move on to that part. Okay. I just wanna say we don't always do this but if you do share about our podcast to social media, we might repost it. Like if we catch it on time. Yeah, because we like to do that and it's really cool seeing people do it. So just a little . Okay, second part we don't always do but I wanted to take some time out to personally shout out a specific family who I think is probably listening right now. And it started with some friends of ours who I just wanna say these friends have been such an encouragement to us and we really appreciate them. So Stan and Jessica and I know you're gonna be listening to this episode. Thank you for being our friends. Thank you for all the personal encouragement that you have poured into our lives, especially about the podcast because you have asked us about it, asked us how it's going. You've asked us how you can help in any way that you can. So I just wanna say thank you to them. But I also wanna say hi to all of their extended family because I know you're listening to just actually sent me a screenshot of one of their families, group texts showing how they were sharing the episode on love. And she was sending it as an encouragement to me. And I just thought how sweet that they're all listening and talking about it. And then I see, I see her sister on social media shared every once in a while. So thank you to all of you who are listening and specifically Stan and Jessica's family. We appreciate you, we love you guys. All right, as usual we have a free thing that we want to promote to you guys. We love making these little resources and this one's been up for a while, but we haven't talked about it for awhile. It's our date night conversation starter download. It's totally free, and we came up with all these date night conversations, starters. So you can take them. You can go on a date and pick one of the topics and use it to start a conversation. But you don't have to go on a date to use it either. I mean, you could do that... You could sit at the table. In front of the fireplace. But dates are awesome. Yeah, true. So you should, you should use this as an excuse to go on dates with your spouse. Hey, like I have to. Yeah, so all you gotta do is go to datenightconversations.com all one word, datenightconversations.com. And it's completely free. You just fill out a little form and you download the little print out and print it out and you got all these conversations starters. All right, we're excited to share today's topic with you guys. We are gonna be talking about just a whole handful of ways that you can have fun as a family. And we think that it's really important to talk about episodes like this. They're not as heavy as the ones where we dive into scripture and we're talking about... Well let's go back and forth. Yeah. Serious, funny, light, yeah. And I think that this one's important because we're getting into a different season. So lighter weather and warmer weather, hopefully but moving on into summer, you know just getting some ideas out there to say, hey, are we, are we having fun here. But you have a note here it says, this is our funnest episode. And I actually thought, it said the funniest episode. And I was thinking, why is this gonna be so funny funny episode funniest, we should do a funny episode. This is like one of those kinds of episodes that just super inspiring. Like, I hope you walk away from it just going, like I want to do everything that was on their list. Yeah, and then we should redo everything. Then we should go back and read it. Why, and we're also gonna share about why it's important to create a fun atmosphere regardless of what you may be going through because joy. Because joy. We're Christian and we believe in God and he is our source of joy and so. We shouldn't make a shirt that just says, because joy. Because joy. Exclamation mark. Also, if you hear the word family and think, well this doesn't apply to me because we don't have any children. Let us encourage you that your spouse is your family. So if you're listening, remember this it only takes two to m…

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