Marriage:The Messy-The Marvelous-The Miraculous
Every marriage has a story, and every marriage is a journey. Join us as we explore how God is faithful through the messy, marvelous, and miraculous chapters of our marriage. We hope to share other Christian couple's stories as we progress in this podcast adventure.
Episodes
29 episodes
Episode 28 Book Review - The 5 Love Languages
We are starting a new feature for the podcast - book reviews. Since we started following God's call into marriage ministry, we have been reading marriage-related books in addition to the Holy Bible. Join us as we review some of the books we hav...
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Episode 27 Answering the call into ministry - Our interview with Rich and Lisa Part 2
Answering the call to serve in ministry is not something to take likely. God expects obedience. This is the continuation of Rich and Lisa's story. Rich is answering the call into ministry, but we also see the impact on Lisa and his family. Thro...
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Episode 26 Dealing with a call into ministry - our interview with Rich and Lisa part 1
Many men who are called to be pastors, didn't necessarily pursue that calling right after high school. Many men receive a call into full-time ministry after they have worked in other career fields and may have started families. In this episode ...
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Episode 25 Serving in Ministry as a Married Couple
Ministry. It's one of those words we toss around in our church vocabulary, but do we really know what it means? How does a married couple do ministry? Simply put, ministry is service. How do we serve as a married couple within a local body of b...
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Episode 24 When Life is Not Unicorns and Gummy Bears
Let's face it. Life is not fair. That can get under your skin and make for a bad day, week, month, or year. How do we address those joy-destroying times?What is God trying to teach me, you or us?We all have moments in the valley...
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Episode 23 Do Not Despise The Small Things
In this episode, we talk about how the little things in a marriage matter. Little things matter in our service to the Lord and to each other as husband and wife. Zechariah 4:10 ESVFor whoever has despised the day of small thing...
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Episode 22 When Children are in the Driver's Seat
Parents have the responsibility to raise their children in the faith. Unfortunately, there are times when we hear of the children dictating the spiritual direction of the family. Today we discuss why parents need to be the spiritual leaders of ...
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Episode 21 Want to experience growth? Teach a class!
In this episode, we discuss how God is growing us in marriage ministry. We are teaching a marriage class at our church. It's more than just reading certain passages from the reference materials. Join us as we discuss the ups and downs of ...
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Episode 20 A conversation with Steve and Debbie Part 3
We are excited and humbled to have as our first guests, Steve and Debbie Wilson from Marriage Matters Now. This is part 3 and the conclusion of our conversation with Steve and Debbie. In this episode, Steve and Debbie talk...
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Episode 19 A conversation with Steve and Debbie part 2
We are excited and humbled to have as our first guests, Steve and Debbie Wilson from Marriage Matters Now. This is part 2 of 3 of our conversation with Steve and Debbie. In this episode, Steve and Debbie talk about their early...
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Episode 18 A conversation with Steve and Debbie Wilson from Marriage Matters Now Part 1
We are excited and humbled to have as our first guests, Steve and Debbie Wilson from Marriage Matters Now. This is part 1 of 3 of our conversation with Steve and Debbie. We love a good back story and in this episode, we hear how...
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Episode 17 Marriage as a little g (god)
Anything can become an idol including our marriages. When we place anything or anyone above God and Jesus, it becomes an idol. In this episode, we discuss the importance of keeping the Lord first in our marriage so we do not allow our m...
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Episode 16 Our Wrap Up for 2023
Thank you to all our listeners! We apologize for the delay in posting episodes, but the last couple of months have been busy with us transitioning back to our home state and celebrating the holidays. This episode is a recap of 2023...
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Episode 15 Who's doing the dishes? part 2
This is part 2 from Episode 14The continued discussion about household roles. How we have performed the duties in the past. And how we see where there could have been improvement since that time. Seeing how God is using lessons to...
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Episode 14 Who's doing the dishes? part 1
A frank discussion about household roles. How we have performed the duties in the past. And how we see where there could have been improvement since that time. Seeing how God is using lessons today to make our relationship better for the future...
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Episode 13 Maintaining Your Marriage with Marriage Conferences
Marriage requires maintenance. One of our favorite ways of maintaining our marriage in recent years has been attending marriage conferences. Not that anything was drastically wrong in our marriage, but these events helped us recenter our ...
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Episode 12 Contending with Career Changes
The only thing constant in life is change. This is a true statement based on our experiences. This includes career changes. Join us as we discuss how God was faithful through our career changes during our marriage. Joseph in the bo...
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Episode 11 Touching on the Money
Finances are often the source of conflict within a marriage. No, we are not debt free nor do we feel qualified to provide financial advice. This is a discussion about what we have learned during our marriage as it pertains to money and finances...
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Episode 10 Rules of Engagement Part 2
In part 1, Nicole presented some "rules of engagement" that she had come across during one of her studies. On this episode, Nicole and DJ will answer 4 questions. Listen to their responses. Then you and your spouse try to answer the same questi...
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Episode 9 Rules of Engagement Part 1
Every married couple has disagreements from time to time. How you argue or resolve disagreements will impact your relationship in some way or fashion. The husband has his point of view and the wife has her point of view. Often times we see view...
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Episode 8 Parenting by Fear Parenting by Faith
Did we parent by fear? Or did we parent by faith? For us, the answer is both. We did not parent perfectly. Yet, God is still faithful. Join us as we discuss how both faith and fear played into how we parented. Train up a child in th...
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Episode 7 Our Experience with Contentment Part 2
On this episode we continue our discussion on contentment. Philippians 4:11-13 -Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. I know how to be brought low, and I know how ...
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Episode 6 Our Experience with Contentment Part 1
Finding contentment is difficult. Marriage does not make you immune from it. Join us on this episode as we discuss the challenges of learning to be content. Philippians 4:11-13 -Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have le...
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