Awesome Marriage Podcast

Is your marriage feeling cozy this winter? Or have things iced over? No matter where you are right now, it’s never too soon – or too late – to warm things up and fan the flames in your marriage. Today Dr. Kim and I are looking at what it looks like when couples are cold and distant, why that matters, and simple ways you can warm things up between you and your spouse.    We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.    Subscribe to Podcast Email to make sure you never miss an episode and get noteworthy quotes, resources, and more delivered straight to your inbox!    *Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here! 

Do you have goals or ideas you’d love to see happen this year? There are a lot of ways to embrace creating a vision, like New Year’s resolutions, setting an intention, or creating a vision board. The Bible also speaks to this in Proverbs. It’s not enough to hope your marriage goes in the direction you want it to - be intentional with where you want to go this year. Join Dr. Kim and I as we talk about how to effectively set an intention for your marriage this year.    We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.    Subscribe to Podcast Email to make sure you never miss an episode and get noteworthy quotes, resources, and more delivered straight to your inbox!    *Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!    RESOURCES Taking a tech break can be healthy and helpful, and our 7-Day Couples Tech Detox resource helps make the process painless!  Can you believe we’re hitting 500 episodes next month!? Check out the details of our 500th episode Review Contest here!   Our Annual Marriage Check Up Guide is designed to help you reflect on this past year and have in depth conversations about your marriage. Will you take 15 minutes each week to check up on your marriage? Dr. Kim highly recommends a quick weekly check in, and our Weekly Check In Guide makes it easy to do! This resource is also available for FREE when you sign up for the weekly Marriage Multiplier email! Have you heard about our Marriage Changer Membership? Marriage Changers get all of our monthly resources delivered automatically, plus several other benefits, including T-shirts and exclusive videos from Dr. Kim and Nancy! Learn more here! Get bite-sized daily doses of marriage wisdom delivered straight to your inbox with Dr. Kim’s Daily One Thing email. As a subscriber, you’ll also be eligible for some awesome freebies!    

I love something Christina said on a recent episode: “When your marriage is reflected in your budget, your calendar, your thoughts, and your prayers then it is a top priority.” As we get the new year started, it’s a great time to take stock of your marriage. What’s going well, and what’s just not working? So today I’m talking to Dr. Kim about what it means to check up on your marriage annually, how he and Nancy do this, and how to get started if, like me, this is pretty new to you and your spouse!    We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.    Subscribe to Podcast Email to make sure you never miss an episode. When you sign up, you will get our “5 Days 5 Ways” Love Languages resource for free! Plus you will get noteworthy quotes, resources, and more delivered straight to your inbox.   *Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!    Will you take 15 minutes each week to check up on your marriage? Dr. Kim highly recommends a quick weekly check in, and our Weekly Check In Guide makes it easy to do!  Ready to level up your marriage? With the Marriage Changers membership yet you get all of our monthly resources, plus some other sweet benefits, like Tshirts and exclusive videos with Dr. Kim and Nancy! Learn more here! Can you believe we’re hitting 500 episodes next month!? Check out the details of our 500th episode Review Contest here!   Dr. Kim’s book 7 Secrets To An Awesome Marriage  Our Annual Marriage Check Up Guide is designed to help you reflect on this past year and have in depth conversations about your marriage. Get bite-sized daily doses of marriage wisdom delivered straight to your inbox with Dr. Kim’s Daily One Thing email. As a subscriber, you’ll also be eligible for some awesome freebies!   Check out Dr. Kim’s Marriage Multiplier email! The Marriage Multiplier brings you 4 pieces of marriage wisdom in a quick, easy to read email. 

Today’s podcast is a real gift. It’s not every day we get to hear from a guest who is in their tenth decade of life, and has had not one, but two awesome marriages! Today Dr. Kim interviews Ernstena “Ernie” Parker Wood, who shares some stories of following God faithfully through life in ministry, marriage and widowhood, with wisdom and warmth. Don’t miss this one!    RESOURCES Accountability is a biblical and helpful tool for growing in holiness. Our “78 Accountability Questions: A Simple Guide For Accountability Partners” resource is a simple guide to get you started and to share some vision for what an accountability partner can look like. Check out Dr. Kim’s Marriage Multiplier email! The Marriage Multiplier brings you 4 pieces of marriage wisdom in a quick, easy to read email.  The Self Check In Guide is a great way to grow in self-awareness.  Our Questions To Help Your Spouse Open Up resource is a simple way to help build the closeness between you and your spouse  Get bite-sized daily doses of marriage wisdom delivered straight to your inbox with Dr. Kim’s Daily One Thing email. As a subscriber, you’ll also be eligible for some awesome freebies!   Ready to level up your marriage? With the Marriage Changers membership yet you get all of our monthly resources, plus some other sweet benefits, like Tshirts and exclusive videos with Dr. Kim and Nancy! Learn more here!  

Spiritual Intimacy isn’t something you hear very often but it’s a real thing that you can have in your marriage! Although it sounds deep and intangible, it can be very simple and anyone can grow in this. Today Dr. Kim and Christina talk about what spiritual intimacy is, and give practical ways to deepen the spiritual intimacy in your marriage.   We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.    RESOURCES Our House Prayer Cards are a simple way to make prayer a normal part of your life by praying over your home. So many couples have told us that these made a difference in their home!  Accountability is a biblical and helpful tool to help us grow in holiness. Our “78 Accountability Questions: A Simple Guide For Accountability Partners” resource is a simple guide to get you started and to share vision for what an accountability partner can look like. Check out Dr. Kim’s Marriage Multiplier email! The Marriage Multiplier brings you 4 pieces of marriage wisdom in a quick, easy to read email.  We have dozens of YouVersion Bible reading plans to take the guesswork out of reading the Bible together.  Get bite-sized daily doses of marriage wisdom delivered straight to your inbox with Dr. Kim’s Daily One Thing email. As a subscriber, you’ll also be eligible for some awesome freebies!   Ready to level up your marriage? With the Marriage Changers membership yet you get all of our monthly resources, plus some other sweet benefits, like Tshirts and exclusive videos with Dr. Kim and Nancy! Learn more here!

One thing we’ve been hearing a lot from couples is that they don’t feel close to each other or that their relationship feels like it’s missing some depth. Today we’re taking some time to talk about emotional intimacy and give you ideas of practical ways to deepen the emotional intimacy in your marriage.    We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.  RESOURCES   Accountability is a biblical and helpful tool for growing in holiness. Our “78 Accountability Questions: A Simple Guide For Accountability Partners” resource is a simple guide to get you started and to share some vision for what an accountability partner can look like. Check out Dr. Kim’s Marriage Multiplier email! The Marriage Multiplier brings you 4 pieces of marriage wisdom in a quick, easy to read email.  The Self Check In Guide is a great way to grow in self-awareness.  Our Questions To Help Your Spouse Open Up resource is a simple way to help build the closeness between you and your spouse  Get bite-sized daily doses of marriage wisdom delivered straight to your inbox with Dr. Kim’s Daily One Thing email. As a subscriber, you’ll also be eligible for some awesome freebies!   Ready to level up your marriage? With the Marriage Changers membership yet you get all of our monthly resources, plus some other sweet benefits, like Tshirts and exclusive videos with Dr. Kim and Nancy! Learn more here!  

Sex is an important part of an awesome marriage… and it’s also one of the top issues couples say is a problem in their marriage. We get lots of questions about sex and today we’re answering as many of them as we can, and no question is off limits! Tune in to hear Dr. Kim and Christina answer these sex FAQs.     We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.    RESOURCES It’s Giving Tuesday, the most generous time of year! This year, we’re giving our 4-Week Connection Challenge as a thank you gift to all who donate! Even after Giving Tuesday, you can still give! We are so thankful for your generosity.  Our Love Making Survey is a helpful and non-threatening way to get the sex conversation started.  Full Set - God's Design for Sex Series, 4 Books: Revised and Updated Edition By: Stan Jones, Brenna Jones  A Celebration of Sex: A Guide to Enjoying God's Gift of Sexual Intimacy Don’t Mom Alone Podcast Ep 328 goes into more detail on talking to your kids about sex. Check out Dr. Kim’s Marriage Multiplier email! The Marriage Multiplier brings you 4 pieces of marriage wisdom in a quick, easy to read email.  Creative Questions to Ask Your Spouse 2.0 will get good conversations started and keep them flowing between you and your spouse.  Get bite-sized daily doses of marriage wisdom delivered straight to your inbox with Dr. Kim’s Daily One Thing email. As a subscriber, you’ll also be eligible for some awesome freebies!   Ready to level up your marriage? With the Marriage Changers membership yet you get all of our monthly resources, plus some other sweet benefits, like Tshirts and exclusive videos with Dr. Kim and Nancy! Learn more here!  

Purity is something a lot of people talk about while single and dating, then not so much in marriage. BUt the truth is, sexual temptation does not disappear just because you are married. Married people still need to submit to God and honor him with sexual purity in marriage. Tune in this week to learn what that looks like, and how to move toward purity in your marriage.    We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.    RESOURCES It’s almost time! Giving Tuesday is next week and it’s the most generous time of year! When you give you will also receive with our 4-Week Connection Challenge! As a non-profit, we could not fulfill our mission without you. We are so thankful for your generosity!  Covenant Eyes is a great resource to help keep you accountable online.  Check out Dr. Kim’s Marriage Multiplier email! The Marriage Multiplier brings you 4 pieces of marriage wisdom in a quick, easy to read email.  Creative Questions to Ask Your Spouse 2.0 will get good conversations started and keep them flowing between you and your spouse.  Get bite-sized daily doses of marriage wisdom delivered straight to your inbox with Dr. Kim’s Daily One Thing email. As a subscriber, you’ll also be eligible for some awesome freebies!   Ready to level up your marriage? With the Marriage Changers membership yet you get all of our monthly resources, plus some other sweet benefits, like Tshirts and exclusive videos with Dr. Kim and Nancy! Learn more here!  

The Christmas season will be here soon, and it’s a great time to refocus on our faith as we celebrate Jesus’ birth. But exactly how can we do that in the midst of normal life plus holiday busyness?! There are lots of reasons why it’s easy to miss making our faith a part of daily life with our spouse and kids. So today, our special guests Deepak and Sara Reju give simple, practical ways to do just that, right in the midst of real life.   We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.    RESOURCES: Sarah’s new board book, Jesus Saves, would make a great gift for the youngest in your life!  Deepak has several books out, and you can find him on Twitter (@DeepakReju). Giving Tuesday is coming up soon; the most generous time of year! When you give you will also receive this Giving Tuesday, with our 4-Week Connection Challenge! As a non-profit, we could not fulfill our mission without you. We are so thankful for your generosity!  Our Creative Questions to Ask Your Spouse 2.0 will get good conversations started and keep them flowing between you and your spouse.  Have you seen Dr. Kim’s awesome new Marriage Multiplier email? The Marriage Multiplier brings you 4 pieces of marriage wisdom in a quick, easy to read email.  Get bite-sized daily doses of marriage wisdom delivered straight to your inbox with Dr. Kim’s Daily One Thing email. As a subscriber, you’ll also be eligible for some awesome freebies!   Have you looked into our Marriage Changers membership yet? Marriage Changers get all of our monthly resources, plus some other sweet benefits! Learn more here!  

Could you be an accidental gaslighter? We’re all vulnerable to bad patterns in marriage so it’s wise to pay attention to them. Last episode we defined gaslighting and talked about what to do if this has become part of your marriage. Today we are talking about accidental gaslighting. Tune in to take a solid look at some signs you might be accidentally harming your spouse’s mental or emotional health, and what to do about it.    We pray this episode is helpful to you and your marriage.    RESOURCES If any form of emotional or physical abuse is present in your marriage, contact the National Domestic Violence Hotline at https://www.thehotline.org/ or 1-800-799-SAFE (1-800-799-7233).  No matter where your marriage is today, there is hope. There is still hope for you to have an awesome marriage. Our 90 Days To Save Your Marriage plan is designed to start right where your marriage is today and get it on the road to healing. Our Creative Questions to Ask Your Spouse 2.0 will get good conversations started and keep them flowing between you and your spouse.  Have you seen Dr. Kim’s awesome new Marriage Multiplier email? The Marriage Multiplier contains 4 pieces of marriage wisdom for you in a quick, easy to implement email format.  Our Self Check In Guide is a really helpful resource for becoming healthier so that your marriage can be at its healthiest.  Christina mentioned our Accountability Questions guide -- which actually will be available next month. In the meantime, of our resources are always available on our website!  Do you know about our Marriage Changers membership? Marriage Changers get each of the new monthly resources we produce, plus some other sweet benefits! Learn more here! Get bite-sized daily doses of marriage wisdom delivered straight to your inbox with Dr. Kim’s Daily One Thing email. As a subscriber, you’ll also be eligible for some awesome freebies!