Words Build & Shape: If We Have The Same Words In Marriage, We Can Accomplish Anything

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About This Episode In this episode, we explore the incredible power words have in our world and our marriage, tracing it back to the creation story. Just as God spoke the world into being, the enemy tempted and deceived using words. At the Tower of Babel, unified language and common words allowed people to accomplish anything, and having the same words in our marriage can do the same for us. We talk about how the printing press spread ideas and put the Bible into common tongues, how translation choices shape meaning, and how words today are being redefined contrary to their original intent. We also reflect on the next ten years of parenting and how prayer primes us to see the good in each other. Whose words are we listening to and repeating: the world's, or God's life-giving words?

About Aaron & Jennifer Smith Aaron and Jennifer Smith are the founders of Marriage After God and authors of Husband After God, Wife After God, and Marriage After God. Married since 2007 and raising six children in Bend, Oregon, they started Husband Revolution and Unveiled Wife to share what God was teaching them, not from a place of having it figured out, but as fellow travelers pointing couples back to Jesus.

In This Episode God created through words — Tracing the power of words back to creation. Satan tempts through words — From Eve in the garden to Jesus in the wilderness. The Tower of Babel — One language and the same words made nothing impossible. The same words in marriage — Why couples who share the same words can accomplish anything. The printing press and the King James Bible — How shared words spread ideas and put the Bible in common hands. Bible translation — Literal vs dynamic equivalence, and why word choices matter. Redefining words — How culture drains words like nice, awful, man, woman and marriage of their meaning. The next ten years of parenting — Reflecting on a pivotal season with our kids. Prayer and perception — How prayer primes spouses to see the good in each other.

Scripture Referenced Genesis 1 (creation) Genesis 3 (the serpent's temptation) Genesis 11 (the Tower of Babel)

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