• Married Couples - Making Great Marriages

  • By: Doug Brinley
  • Podcast

Married Couples - Making Great Marriages

By: Doug Brinley
  • Summary

  • This podcast discusses a number of reasons to have a great marriage if a couple expects to be together forever following a temple priesthood ordinance. Therefore, divorce is not part of the Lord's program for married couples unless there are serious elements in the marriage such as abusiveness, adultery, abandonment, perhaps financial disaster due to one spouse's extravagance, or other elements detrimental to the dignity, safety, or mental health of a spouse. However, it rarely is due to the actions of just one spouse. It usually takes two to make a great marriage and only one can ruin a relationship. Where there is repeated absence of kindness, a lack of positive communication or hurtful criticism of a spouse over time without repentance, and a host of other serious elements that can fracture one's soul. If we expect to live among other exalted couples in the celestial kingdom, we must acquire character traits and attributes that will make it comfortable for us to be among such couples. Our Heavenly Father put us in an environment here on the earth where good and evil exists, so that through our use of agency, we learn how to live a celestial life by making only those choices that prove that we want to live the kind of life that God lives and other exalted beings life.

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Episodes
  • The Proclamation to the World on the Family
    Jan 6 2024

    It has been 29 years since the First Presidency and Quorum of Twelve issued a proclamation on marriage and family relations. Then I covered a number of other topics dealing with marriage and family issues.

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    37 mins
  • The Proclamation to the World on the Family
    Jan 6 2024

    In 1995, the Church leaders issued a proclamation on the family for the world to understand the place of marriage as it is placed in the standards and doctrines of the gospel of Jesus Christ. I covered some ideas of divorce, resurrection, and finally who will resurrect you as a wife and sons.

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    37 mins
  • If You Think Divorce is a Good Thing--Think Again
    Apr 11 2023

    Divorce is a dangerous topic these days because it is so prevalent. The extent of divorce in society at large is in the 40 percentages while those who marry in the temple of the Lord (Latter-day Saints), where a couple made covenants with God the Father and each other, divorce is in the high teens. A temple ceremony confers upon a couple the blessing of living together for 'time and all eternity.' Because of the Savior's resurrection and its application to all of us, it is possible to continue as a married couple not only in this life, but in the spirit world after this life and then forever following the resurrection where there is no death. Wow, what couple who is deeply in love, who loved their children and posterity, would not want those associations to continue after this brief period of mortality? That is only possible from a temple sealing. The religious world of our day thinks that marriage is simply a mortal experience, hence marriages are for "'til death do you part." So you get a divorce at the same time at which you marry! No wonder divorce, living together without the commitment of marriage, remaining single by choice, or those who divorce and do not marry again in this life are the result of believing that marriage is limited to this life.

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    51 mins

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