The VowsToKeep Marriage Podcast
Need help in your marriage?! We've got you covered! The VowsToKeep Marriage Podcast will help you grow closer to your spouse and closer to God's design for your marriage. No marriage is too far gone to save or too healthy to not need a check up. Let's get started by building a Biblically healthy marriage!
Episodes
325 episodes
Why The Local Church Shapes Your Child's Faith
Church attendance is dropping fast, but the bigger question hits closer to home: when your kids leave your house, will they leave God's house too? We get honest about the data, the fear many parents carry, and the way misleading statistics can ...
Grace Over Grind p3
The fastest way to drain joy out of your faith and your marriage is to turn grace into a scorecard. We talk about legalism and performance not as an abstract doctrine, but as a daily trap that reshapes how we see God, how we see ourselves, and ...
How Legalism Sneaks Into Christian Marriage p2
The fastest way to drain joy from your faith is to turn it into a grading system. When we start believing that God approves of us because we performed well today, we do not just carry that pressure internally, we bring it into our Christian mar...
Legalism Promises Approval But Only Grace Delivers Freedom p1
The fight is rarely just about the dishes, the tone, or the timing. Sometimes the real conflict is invisible: a relentless pressure to prove you’re “good enough” for God, and then quietly demanding that same standard inside your marriage. David...
Your Faithfulness Today Shapes Your Child’s Faith Tomorrow
Your child growing up is the goal. Your child growing up and walking away from God is the fear we almost don’t want to say out loud. We start with a story that hits close to home: godly parents, real investment, and a young adult who leaves hom...
Life Begins At Fertilization And Scripture Says Why
Abortion is not just a political headline, it is a discipleship test for parents. If you have ever wondered when to bring it up with your kids, what to say without panicking, or how to respond when the culture sounds more confident than the chu...
How Mercy And Respect Rebuild Marriage Conversation
One careless comment can land like a verdict, and one merciful response can keep a marriage talking. We start with a real early-marriage mistake, David’s gold 1998 Ram Air Firebird bought sight unseen, and why Tracy’s refusal to shame him didn’...
A Soft Heart And Humility Can Bring Your Husband Back Into Conversation
The moment your husband goes quiet, it’s easy to assume the worst: he doesn’t care, he’s checked out, or you’re asking for too much. We get it, and we’re naming what’s really happening for many couples: a communication epidemic that spreads thr...
You Can Learn To Speak Courage Into Your Marriage
Avoiding your wife doesn’t make the problem disappear, it just teaches your marriage to live with distance. Today we name the cycle a lot of couples get trapped in: annoyance that grows into anger, bitterness that hardens into apathy, and silen...
Stop Tuning Out And Start Hearing Your Spouse
A husband goes to the ear doctor convinced he can’t hear his wife. The test comes back perfect, and the doctor delivers the line that stings because it’s true: it’s not your ears, it’s your heart. That story opens a deeper conversation we all n...
Are You Chasing Fruit While Neglecting Roots
A perfect date can be the loudest reminder that something deeper is off. We start with a story about a husband who tries to reconnect through a big romantic plan, only to discover that what both spouses really want is honesty, forgiveness, and ...
What If Your Marriage Runs On Undeserved Kindness
Forgetfulness can freeze a home even when the heat is sitting five feet away. We start with a simple firewood story and then hold it up to a hard spiritual reality: many of us have received mercy and grace from God, yet we still treat our spous...
Stop Agreeing To Disagree
“Agree to disagree” sounds mature, but we’ve watched it quietly hollow out unity in marriage. When two people stop working toward oneness, they don’t stop the conflict, they just postpone it until it comes back louder. We start with a listener ...
Not Every Want Is a Need: Ending Marriage Fights the Biblical Way
This podcast episode from Vows to Keep explains that marital conflict usually comes from inner desires and spiritual battles, not from a spouse being the “enemy.” Drawing from James 4, Galatians 5, Ephesians 6, and other passages, Da...
A Golden Doodle, A Gaming Chair, And Two Stubborn Hearts Walk Into A Marriage
What if the real reason you keep having the same fight isn’t the dog, the chair, or the chores—but the desires you won’t name? We take you right to the heart of conflict using James 4 as our guide, sharing candid stories—from a longed-for golde...
When Marriage Meets Depression: Replacing Isolation with God’s Design for Community
David and Tracy continue their series on depression in marriage, showing that depression is often a signal of deeper issues like isolation, “junk values,” and misplaced pursuits rather than just a biological problem. Through Scripture and the s...
How Reframing Depression Through Scripture Restored Our Hearts And Home
What if the sadness you carry is pointing you toward something deeper than a diagnosis? We open up about our own run-ins with depression—moments when relocation, isolation, work strain, and unmet expectations pushed our marriage to the edge—and...
Valentine’s Is Cheap; Your Love Doesn’t Have To Be
Tired of the Valentine’s Day script that swings between pressure and apathy? We take a deeper path, rooting marriage in the wide, long, high, and deep love described in Ephesians 3—and showing how that truth can turn a single holiday into a dai...
From Ritual To Relationship: Making Prayer The Heartbeat Of Your Marriage
What if prayer stopped feeling like a polite ritual and started moving your marriage toward real unity and joy? We explore how a vibrant prayer life—grounded in God’s character and aligned with His will—shifts couples from problem-managing to h...
Goliath Talks Tough, But He’s No Match For Dishes Done In Love
The loudest noise about marriage isn’t where the real fight is happening. We take you past the headlines and into the everyday choices that either erode a covenant or strengthen it, showing how the most decisive battles are won in kitchens, liv...
From Keeping Score To Giving Grace In Marriage
What if the real reason your marriage feels heavy is the scoreboard you never meant to build? We dive into the hidden “points system” that turns chores, tone, spending, and even small mistakes into a running tally of who’s up and who’s down—and...
From Fire To Abundance: Facing Marital Trials With Biblical Courage
Pain shows up in marriage wearing many faces: the hospital bracelet, the unpaid bill, the cold shoulder after a hard word, the ache of distance you can’t name. We tackle those moments head-on and trace a surprising map from fire and water to a ...
Blueprints For A Blessed Marriage
What if the happiest marriages aren’t lucky but intentional—built on choices Jesus promised God would bless? We unpack the Beatitudes in plain, practical language and show how humility, mourning over sin, meekness, and hunger for righteousness ...
Magic Won’t Fix Your Marriage, But This Might
What if the change you’re praying for begins where you least expect it—at the quiet decision to say yes to God again today? We explore how lasting renewal in marriage grows from God’s first love, moves through daily abiding, and shows up as sma...
How To Save Your Marriage Alone (With God’s Power) Part 2 :: [Ep 301]
When love feels impossible, many of us fly by feelings and hope for the best. We’ve learned the hard way that emotions make for a trapping cockpit, especially in a crisis. So we walk through how to stop flying blind and start flying by instrume...