#562 The Best Way to Stop Fighting in Your Marriage

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4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

James 4:1 so famously writes, “What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you?”

It’s not surprising that marriage is a hotbed for conflict. When you live so closely with someone else, it’s easy to see their flaws, shortcomings, and mistakes in high definition.

So what can you do to stop constantly fighting?

In this special session from Reclaim 2024, Brad Rhoads shares what helped cut fighting and elevate fun in his marriage.

Guests: Brad Rhodes, Grace Marriage

Brad’s Website: gracemarriage.com

Brad’s Instagram: @grace_marriage

Blog: Forgiveness is Hard, Grace is Harder

Java with Juli with Dr. Juli Slattery – Christian Discussions on Marriage, Sex and Singleness.

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0:00.0	Hey friend, welcome to Job with Julie, hosted by me, Julie Slattery.
0:05.0	This podcast, as always, is listener supported, and it's an outreach of authentic intimacy, which is a ministry dedicated to helping you make sense of God and sexuality.
0:16.0	Well, if you're married, then you understand that it's really normal to disagree with your spouse and even get annoyed by things they do or maybe don't do.
0:25.3	I mean, after all, your spouse is a person that is very close to you and so you're going
0:29.6	to notice everything.
0:32.0	The challenge of marriage is knowing how to see all those things and still walk in love
0:36.6	towards your spouse. You know, there are daily opportunities for us to either fight with our spouse or to extend grace.
0:44.3	Now, someone who has spent a lot of time talking and thinking about grace is my guest today, Brad Rhodes.
0:51.3	Brad is the founder of Grace Marriage, and what you'll hear I'm sure today is actually
0:55.6	a recording from our Reclaim Conference, where we talked about the need to surrender ourselves,
1:01.2	our relationships, and our sexuality to God. And Brad did a great talk on how this plays out
1:07.0	in the intimacy of the marriage relationship. So grab your Java and get ready for Brad to share about how when he surrendered himself to God,
1:16.3	he really saw God rescue his marriage.
1:21.7	Good afternoon.
1:24.5	What we talked about earlier about grace and the power of God's grace. I'm going to kind of share with you
1:31.3	today like how that's applied to marriage and you know and how grace can really set a marriage free from
1:38.9	frustration and can really um we just give you a foundation to thrive.
1:44.7	So I'll start by kind of give you a little bit of our story.
1:48.1	So I was a practicing lawyer in Nashville, Tennessee,
1:51.4	working at a big firm downtown.
1:53.9	I was about 27 years old at the time, not dating anybody.
1:58.1	I just made a pledge.
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