A good marriage doesn't happen by accident and that's the heartbeat of Commitment 2 in Paul David Tripp's book Marriage: 6 Gospel Commitments Every Couple Needs to Make. This is topic of discussion on Episode 112 of the Marriage Puzzle Podcast. If you missed episode 111 where we introduced this book series, go back and listen first — this builds on it. But here's the short version: we coincidentally started reading the same book without ever talking about it, and it's turned

We just started reading a book, and the funny part is, we started the same book coincidentally. Thomas found it on Audible during his commute. Juli was already three chapters in. Neither of us told the other — we just both happened to pick up Marriage: 6 Gospel Commitments Every Couple Needs to Make by Paul David Tripp at the exact same time. We're calling it a coincidence. We also kind of think it wasn't. We loved it enough that we've decided to spend the next several episod

If you've been married for more than about five minutes, you already know communication is where most of the real work happens. This one is from Episode 110 of the Marriage Puzzle Podcast. We like to say marriage is a three-legged stool: communication, intimacy, and finances. But after 20 years of marriage and more than 100 episodes of this podcast, we've noticed something — communication isn't just one leg. It's integrated with the other two the whole time. Amazing sex once