Jordan and Kristen Ministries

Send a text In this special episode, Kristen interviews April Barber, who talks about her daughter's heart condition.  April's daughter was born with a heart defect that had doctors convinced she would not live.  But ten years and numerous surgeries later, her daughter continues to defy the odds, and God continues to be faithful.  In this interview, April tells her story of faith, hope,...

Send a text The Bible says we should "fear the Lord our God." But why should we fear someone who loves us? How do we reconcile these two competing emotions, and what are the real-world implications of it? Support the show

Send a text Having recently celebrated their first wedding anniversary, Jordan and Kristen discuss the lessons they've learned from their first year of marriage. Support the show

Send a text We live in a society where being offended is a favorite hobby.  No wonder we have no idea how to be successful in relationships!  Every relationship has in it opportunities to be offended.  Successful relationships are those where both partners choose instead to think the best of the other person. Support the show

Send a text In our last episode, we discussed how many people don't even know how to love themselves. In this episode, we discuss a key to loving another person: humility, because without humility there can be no growth, and if you're not growing together than you're growing apart. Humility is what causes us to reflect on how we can improve for the other person, and just as importan...

Send a text Why do so many marriages and relationships fail? It's no surprise that so many of us don't know how to love each other, when so few of us know how, or even why, to love ourselves. Support the show

Send a text God accepts us the way we are, but He doesn't want to leave us the way we are. He wants to give us new life, conformed to His will, because he values us, as we are each unique and irreplaceable. Support the show

Send a text We all want divine appointments: meeting the love of our life, or someone with an exciting opportunity, or someone else who will propel us forward. But whether we realize it or not, we probably have countless divine appointments every day, and it's important to make the most out of those as well, as we wait for the ones we're believing for. Support the show

Send a text In order to get the good things that God has for us, we need to transition from "God give me" to "God use me." Support the show

Send a text A lot of people like the philosophical elements of Christianity, but have difficulty with the miracles, in particular Christ's resurrection. Some even wonder aloud whether the resurrection is a necessary component to Christianity. Why, is it not enough, to simply follow Christ's teachings? Because Jesus was not simply presenting a way of life, He was presenting Himself as lif...

Send a text Last week we spoke about the importance of letting God take control. We continue with that theme this week, explaining how the best way to stop controlling things is to understand who God is, and what his promises are. Support the show

Send a text Marriage is like two people trying to use their own pieces from their own puzzles to put a single puzzle together, on a table that sometimes seems too small.  The problem is not the dream, the problem is trying to control what God wants to do.  The key to success is submission, and letting God take over the process. Support the show

Send a text "Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good, and His love endures forever!" Support the show

Send a text We can't always be everything to our spouse, but we can always be faithful, just as God is faithful to us. Support the show

Send a text When we pray for healing, it's important to remember the importance of praying for forgiveness as well.  Sickness is not punishment for sin, but it's sometimes linked to sin, and even more than that, is an opportunity that God uses to get our attention, and display His glory. Support the show

Send a text Most people are familiar with the story of the Prodigal Son, and the main lesson, which is that God welcomes us back when we repent. But there are two other lessons just as important to learn. Support the show

Send a text Successful relationships require that both parties speak boldly to each other. But that's often misunderstood. Support the show

Send a text We all want something better, but oftentimes, we're afraid to leave the old thing behind before the new thing arrives. Support the show

Send a text You may have heard of the "five love languages": acts of service, gift giving, quality time, physical touch, and words of affirmation.  But there's a sixth love language that's even more important than the first five combined, because without it the others fail: personal growth.  When Paul writes his famous "love is patient, love is kind, it does not envy"...

Send a text Relationships are often easiest and happiest in the beginning when couples fall in love.  But too often, that feeling fades, and when that happens the relationship is at risk of decay, and often people look for new partners to get that “in love” feeling back.  The cycle then repeats itself when that relationship loses its newness.  It doesn’t have to be that way.  God is a God of renew...

Send a text Accepting Christ doesn't just redeem us from our past, it actually puts to death the old person and replaces it with an entirely new one. As the Apostle Paul said in 2 Corinthians 5: "If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has gone, and the new has come." So not only are we washed clean of our sins, we are made totally new creatures who have never had a si...

Send a text We all want the ideal spouse, kids, job, house, vacations, even the ideal day.  That's fine, but not when our happiness, and by extension our faith and our relationship with God, is tied to the perfection of those ideals.  Only God is perfect, therefore, only God should be our ideal.  When we demand perfection from other things, we're replacing our perfect God with imperfect...

Send a text The Bible says "Delight yourself int he Lord, and He will give you the desires of your heart." What's important when you read a verse like that is to see what it's not saying as well. It does not say God will give you the desires of your flesh. In this video, we discuss this important, and commonly overlooked distinction. Support the show

Send a text One of the worst habits people have is to hoard junk, and we don't just mean material things, but rather petty resentments and grievances which, by themselves, aren't worth much of anything, but when accumulated over the course of years or decades, are fatal to a relationship.  Instead, discard the silly annoyances when they occur, and hoard the positive things your partner d...

Send a text Do you ever feel like you've come up against an insurmountable wall, even after doing all the right things? You prayed for deliverance, you followed God, you were totally obedient, and still you've reached a point where you feel like you've wandered into the middle of nowhere, with a wall in front of you preventing further progress.  The Israelites must have felt the sam...