Established Family Podcast

Unforgiveness keeps a marriage bound to the wound. Day 2 of our 5-Day Fast & Pray Over Your Marriage Challenge is focused on breaking agreement with offense, bitterness, and division. Unforgiveness does not protect the heart. It keeps the heart imprisoned. Today we fast and pray against:— bitterness— guarded hearts— repeated division— normalized offense— emotional separationWe are releasing wh...

The cycles stop here. In Day 1 of our 5-Day Fast & Pray Over Your Marriage Challenge, we are confronting the patterns that keep repeating in your marriage, your home, and your bloodline. Many spouses are exhausted from fighting the same battles over and over again — emotional distance, confusion, destructive communication, division, and recurring pain. Today we go after the root. This prayer c...

This episode goes deep into the grief of God, the judgment of God, the mercy of God, and the sanctifying work of the Holy Spirit in covenant. Through an exegetical walk from Genesis, Exodus, Jonah, Samuel, Hebrews, Romans, Galatians, Ephesians, and 2 Corinthians, we explore how the heart of the Father moves—and why so many marriages remain stuck in cycles of chaos when the Spirit is resisted.' Can...

In this episode, we confront the reality that you are not just in relationship with people—you are in relationship with the belief systems they carry. And those belief systems will either:— train your senses in righteousness— or dull your discernment and pull you into deceptionScripture is clear:Godly relationships produce maturity, discernment, endurance, and hope (Hebrews 5:11–14; Hebrews 6:9–20...

Your marriage is not just being affected by what’s happening inside of it… …it’s being formed by the people surrounding it. Jesus made it clear—He did not come to bring peace, but division. Not chaos… but a dividing line between belief and unbelief. And if you don’t understand that division,you will stay connected to relationships that are spiritually unqualified to speak into your covenant. We br...

In Part 2 of The Relationships That Shape Your Marriage, we expose how ungodly counsel operates beneath the surface—hooking your emotions, distorting your discernment, and slowly pulling you out of covenant.

Most spouses are trying to fix their marriage……while staying connected to the very relationships that are corrupting it. Scripture is clear:“Bad company corrupts good morals.” (1 Corinthians 15:33)But most people read that verse without understanding the context Paul is addressing—a group of people who rejected the resurrection. And that matters to your marriage more than you think.

Part 4 exposes the spirit of division operating through a soulish spouse. Scripture draws a clear line between psuchikos (soulish) and pneumatikos (spiritual) in 1 Corinthians 15:42–50. One is governed by the soul—emotions, impulses, instability. The other is governed by the Spirit—life, order, and power. When a spouse is driven by emotions and not submitted to the Spirit, they remain soulish. And...

“Emotional safety” isn’t what you think it is……and chasing it may be the very thing destroying your marriage. In today’s episode, we confront a hard truth:Your emotions were never meant to lead your marriage. They were meant to be submitted, crucified, and resurrected in Christ. Because when emotions go ungoverned…they don’t just “express pain” — they produce fruit. And scripture is clear:Emotion...

You cannot trust your heart with your marriage. Your heart will lie to you. Your heart will justify what feels right…while producing what is wrong. Many spouses have become more committed to their emotions than they are to their covenant. They are slow to honor the vow that passed their lips…but quick to defend their feelings, their reactions, and their perspective. And Scripture directly confront...

There is a battle for lordship in your soul that is directly affecting your marriage. Your mind. Your will. Your emotions. And every day those emotions are producing fruit. You are either mastering your emotions and producing righteous fruit…or you are being mastered by your emotions and producing destruction.

We are entering into a time where the weight and gravity of spiritual blindness in marriage is increasing. Many spouses are quietly grieving the life, covenant, and intimacy they once had… while simultaneously learning how to maintain the appearance of a functioning marriage. An external adornment is created to hide an internal condition. A public image replaces consecration. Performance replaces...

Scripture warns repeatedly about false doctrines, seductive teachings, and persuasive philosophies that slowly lead believers away from truth (2 Corinthians 10:5, 1 Timothy 4:1, Colossians 2:8).And today many Christian marriages are quietly operating under belief systems that never came from God. Some of these doctrines come directly from secular culture. Others have been slowly repackaged with Ch...

Brought to you by ⁠The Marriage Academy⁠https://university.establishedfamily.com/marriage/ Exhaustion in marriage can be righteous. Defeat is not. In this teaching, I make the case from Scripture that defeat is not a condition designed for sons and daughters of God. It is the eternal position of the enemy. And when we align our mind, will, emotions, and conduct with the defeated one, we begin to i...

Brought to you by ⁠The Marriage Academy⁠https://university.establishedfamily.com/marriage/ Your marriage was never designed to operate under the law. In this free release from The Marriage Academy – Semester 3, Module 1, we uncover what the promises of God actually are over your family… and why so many Christian marriages are unknowingly living under a curse instead of walking in dominion.

Brought to you by ⁠The Marriage Academy⁠https://university.establishedfamily.com/marriage/ Are you actually standing for your marriage… or just calling it standing? In today’s episode of Marriage Wisdom, we confront a hard truth: not every “stand” is righteous. Not every effort to hold a marriage together is aligned with the heart of the Father.

➡ Join The Marriage Academyhttps://establisheduniversity.com/marriage Most spouses think their frustration, irritation, numbness, or contempt is just “normal marital tension.”It’s not. When the enemy gains a foothold — what Paul calls topos — he does not waste it. He uses it. He builds on it. And over time, he trains your senses to respond unrighteously to the very covenant you once prayed for. Th...

Most marriages do not collapse overnight. They decline in stages. In this episode, we uncover the biblical progression of spiritual destruction in marriage — not through psychology, not through cultural language like “drift” or “backsliding,” but through Scripture. We walk through the spiritual sequence that begins with failed temptations and trials and, if left unaccounted for, progresses into si...

Brought to you by ⁠The Marriage Academy⁠https://university.establishedfamily.com/marriage/ Is divorce biblical? Are there really “biblical outs”?And if there are… should you take them?

There was a season in my life where I was striving at full effort as a husband… and producing nothing that carried eternal weight. I was praying. I was working. I was trying. I was providing. But I was unfit for good works. In this episode, I share openly from the heart of a husband who had to come to grips with a hard truth: you can be saved, gifted, and sincere — and still build your marriage on...

This is a complimentary module from ⁠The Marriage Academy⁠:https://university.establishedfamily.com/marriage/ In this free Marriage Academy module, we confront the belief systems in marriage that quietly become strongholds—and the fruit they’ve been producing for years. This is Semester 2, Module 2 of The Marriage Academy, where we expose how lies, normalized thinking, and inherited belief systems...

Brought to you by ⁠The Marriage Academy⁠https://university.establishedfamily.com/marriage/ Most marriages don’t end because love disappeared. They end because something underneath love was compromised long before anyone admitted it. In this episode of Marriage Wisdom, we confront one of the most common — and most destructive — statements spoken in marriage:“I don’t love them anymore.”“I love them,...

If you and your spouse are always arguing, it’s not just a communication problem. In this episode of Marriage Wisdom, we confront the real reason conflict keeps resurfacing in marriages—even when both spouses “know better,” love God, or have tried counseling, books, and tools. Strife is not a personality trait. Contention is not a communication style. And conflict does not come from nowhere. Many...

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To call in to the podcast visit:https://establishedfamily.com/callIn today's episode of the Established Family Podcast we take 4x of your questions live on the show!——————🔗 Take the next step in your marriage restoration journey:➡ Join The Marriage Academyhttps://establisheduniversity.com/marriage➡ Coaching & Counseling Sessions:https://establishedfamily.com——————➡ Donate to Established F...