Healthy + Thriving Relationships

SERIES: Dating Today Dating today can be tough. Especially when we often have different ideas about dating (how to go about it, who to date, who's serious and who's not, etc.), and not to mention the wide range of bad advice floating around out there.  Especially around pre-marital counseling. If there is one thing we are passionate about it's to intentionally prepare for your marriage. So, i...

SERIES: Dating Today Dating today can be tough. Especially when we often have different ideas about dating (how to go about it, who to date, who's serious and who's not, etc.), and not to mention the wide range of bad advice floating around out there.  We all have a different idea of what “serious” means. And let's be honest, sometimes we aren’t very intentional to begin with which makes this...

SERIES: Dating Today Dating today can be tough. Especially when we often have different ideas about dating (how to go about it, who to date, who's serious and who's not, etc.), and not to mention the wide range of bad advice floating around out there.  Don't we all long to be accepted and loved despite our past choices, mistakes, and histories? Due to this, we might say, “The past doesn’t mat...

SERIES: Dating Today Dating today can be tough. Especially when we often have different ideas about dating (how to go about it, who to date, who's serious and who's not, etc.), and not to mention the wide range of bad advice floating around out there.  Today's topic is chalk-full of questions!  When should I break up with someone? What should I do if someone breaks up with me? How do I h...

SERIES: Dating Today Dating today can be tough. Especially when we often have different ideas about dating (how to go about it, who to date, who's serious and who's not, etc.), and not to mention the wide range of bad advice floating around out there.  When do you introduce the person you’re dating to your friends and family? When is it too soon? When is too late?  The cultural “consensu...

SERIES: Dating Today Dating today can be tough. Especially when we often have different ideas about dating (how to go about it, who to date, who's serious and who's not, etc.), and not to mention the wide range of bad advice floating around out there.  When we start dating there is a tendency to push current relationships and commitments aside for this new exciting person. This causes lots of...

SERIES: Dating Today Dating today can be tough. Especially when we often have different ideas about dating (how to go about it, who to date, who's serious and who's not, etc.), and not to mention the wide range of bad advice floating around out there.  Today we'll discuss when and how to build up physical intimacy while dating because culture's done a great job at overemphasizing this dynamic...

SERIES: Dating Today Dating today can be tough. Especially when we often have different ideas about dating (how to go about it, who to date, who's serious and who's not, etc.), and not to mention the wide range of bad advice floating around out there.  While dating it can be really easy to fool ourselves into thinking we’re emotionally close because we have such strong feelings. But the reali...

SERIES: Dating Today Dating today can be tough. Especially when we often have different ideas about dating (how to go about it, who to date, who's serious and who's not, etc.), and not to mention the wide range of bad advice floating around out there.  There is one thing however that most experts can agree on - the base of a great marriage is friendship. But here's the rub. Most dating relati...

SERIES: Dating Today Dating today can be tough. Especially when we often have different ideas about dating (how to go about it, who to date, who's serious and who's not, etc.), and not to mention the wide range of bad advice floating around out there.  And could we be making even harder on ourselves to find good people? Is our misunderstanding or overemphasis on physical attraction actually s...

SERIES: Dating Today Dating today can be tough. Especially when we often have different ideas about dating (how to go about it, who to date, who's serious and who's not, etc.), and not to mention the wide range of bad advice floating around out there.  Throughout this series we'll be talking how to go about dating for the purpose of preparing us for marriage. Because we believe that we must h...

SERIES: Toxic Things We Say There are a lot of popular phrases accepted in culture right now in the name of things like mental health, freedom and love.  However, could these claims that are supposedly helpful actually be extremely toxic to us? Proverbs 14:12 says, “There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.”  In this episode we’ll talk about a popular bel...

SERIES: Toxic Things We Say There are a lot of popular phrases accepted in culture right now in the name of things like mental health, freedom and love.  However, could these claims that are supposedly helpful actually be extremely toxic to us? Proverbs 14:12 says, “There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.”  In this episode we’ll talk about a popular bel...

SERIES: Toxic Things We Say There are a lot of popular phrases accepted in culture right now in the name of things like mental health, freedom and love.  However, could these claims that are supposedly helpful actually be extremely toxic to us? Proverbs 14:12 says, “There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.”  In this episode we’ll talk about a popular bel...

SERIES: Toxic Things We Say There are a lot of popular phrases accepted in culture right now in the name of things like mental health, freedom and love.  However, could these claims that are supposedly helpful actually be extremely toxic to us? Proverbs 14:12 says, “There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death.”  In this episode we’ll talk about a popular bel...

SERIES: Healthy Communication There are ways we communicate and things we do or say that are hurtful to our relationships.  So, today we're going to talk about the things NOT to do when communicating. Because until we can recognize what these are the more we'll be able to embrace healthy communication principles and techniques that will bring flourishing to our loved ones.  See MORE...

SERIES: Healthy Communication One of the biggest problems in communication is talking about the tough stuff. We oftentimes either make it worse, or we just avoid the tough stuff altogether.  But the thing is, if you want to have rich, meaningful, long-lasting relationships, then you have to practice talking through the hard things well.  So, we've created a few healthy guidelines or "rul...

SERIES: Healthy Communication This series has been all about how to communicate well in your relationships. Because when our relationships are filled with miscommunication that often leads us to disconnection.  Do you feel disconnected in your relationships? Or maybe you feel connected but want to learn how to keep it that way? Today we'll talk about how to keep the connection alive once it's...

SERIES: Healthy Communication If you've ever played Charades you know how difficult it can be to communicate. Now imagine you can only communicate that way. Oy.  But doesn't it feel like that's the truth at times? Like you’re trying to get your point across but they never understand? It's as if you each speak a different language. It's probably because you are.  And until you can learn t...

SERIES: Healthy Communication Remember passing notes? This was pre-cell phone era for those of you non-millenials.  We loved passing notes! There was an element of danger because your teacher could catch you at any moment, but sometime what you had to say was just too worth it. Texting has been the adult form of passing notes since cell phones became popular but it's never been quite as simpl...

SERIES: Healthy Communication Most problems in Relationships come down to miscommunication. Because lack of clarification = frustration. We want you to have thriving relationships, but that means you must do the work to communicate well.  This episode in particular, we'll take a look at how our family culture and our family background play a huge part in our communication with others.  W...

SERIES: How to Support Your Porn Addicted Husband The last few weeks we've discussed why he struggles with pornography and how we, as women and wives, can partner with our husband in the path to recovery.  Today, we'll switch from a defensive stance to an offensive.  Because so often we wait until pornography becomes a problem before being his refuge. Which means we must be proactive to...

SERIES: How to Support Your Porn Addicted Husband Many of us have faced the difficulties and heartbreaks that surround sexual addiction. Gordon and I have had the unfortunate experience of this in our own life. Ladies, oftentimes your natural response to this betrayal is: “I hurt too much to help.” “Why should I help? It’s not my problem” “Why can’t you just get over it? I don’t ever feel tempted...

SERIES: How to Support Your Porn-Addicted Husband Porneia . It is the root word of Pornography. And it’s the Greek word Paul uses in 1 Corinthians 6:13, translated as “sexual immorality.”  In the next couple of weeks, we’re going to focus on the issue of pornography because it's deeply personal to us both and something we protect ourselves against daily.  The reality is that most men str...

Do you long for one of those marriages that always seem really happy? Isn’t this why we get married, why we don’t want to be single? But then Roommate Syndrome kicks in. Things don’t feel the same… You look at those happy couples and think: How do they have that and we don't? They must have just found “the One” But the truth is, no matter where you are in your marriage -- whether you’ve been marri...