Marriage Matters with Ken and Shar

"Love Banking" is a great tool to help couples keep it fresh.  Ken and Shar explore the dangers of letting your love account become depleted, and what to do about it when it is.

We are created "body, soul and spirit" (1 Thes. 5:23),  This episode concludes a great tool providing clear and simple tips to help couples build spiritual intimacy as well as physical and emotional intimacy.

The bible tells us that we are created spirit, soul and body (1 Thes. 5:23).  Take this journey with Ken and Shar as they reveal how to build real intimacy, not only physically and emotionally (body and soul), but a spiritual intimacy as well.

Ken interviews Zach and Cecily, whose marriage suffered quite a bit early on from unmet expectations that resulted in resentment and bitterness in one, while the other felt like a failure and a  disappoointment.   Learn how God set them both free and how their entire marriage culture was radically changed.

This episode is the second part of Ken and Shar walking couples through how to manage "out of control" expectations, and how to recover quickly after a disappointment or failed expectation.

In this episode Ken and Shar unwrap a big "power tool" for building your marriage; "How to manage expectations" !  Failed expectations are the root of nearly all relational conflict, so managing expectations is a huge skill we all need.

In this episode, take a dive with Ken and Shar into a startling verse of scripture, reminding us that our spouse can never be the source of our strength, peace or fulfillment in this life.  That place belongs to another.

"When life changes, so must our marriages"!  That's the point of this episode as Ken and Shar explain that they have been married six or seven times...to the same spouse!

In this episode Ken and Shar finish working their way through Prov. 18 , reminding married couples to take special care to never wound or crush your spous' spirit.  This is a great tool for every couples tool bag.

In this episode and the next, Ken and Shar take a dive into the 18th Proverb, warning all of us that through our words and by the way we communicate we can actually 'crush" our spous' spirit.  They share not only how this happens, but also what to do to avoid it ever happening again.

In this episode Ken and Shar continue exploring the wonderful power of the "Forgiveness Cycle'.  All relationships rise and fall on the ability of two people to take responsibility for their actions and to forgive each other when injured.

Of all the tools Ken and Shar throw into our tool bags, this tool might be the most important.  No marriage can really experience deep unity without it!

In this episode Ken and Shar finish developing this important "conflict resolution" tool.

"Conflict resoluton"...it's tough, right?  This is the first of two-parts in which Ken and Shar explore a fantastic tool for quickly getting resolve in times of conflict.

In this episode Ken and Shar conclude their insightful conversatioin about the need for all couples to protect their "Inner Circle" in an ever challenging world.

Continuing to discuss how we, as couples, can protect our "inner circle", Ken and Shar share the most common "enemies" marriages face and how to meet and overcome the challenge.

Catch this impromptu Fathers Day conversation between Ken and his son, Cole, as they talk about how to win the battle for their marriages and families.

Getting married changes everything!  You each leave your family circle behind, and together, begin building a brand new one.  Ken and Shar call this new thing your "Inner Circle", and in this episode give you some great tools to help you guard and protect it from the fierce challenges to come.

In this episode, Ken and Shar discuss the third component of the marriage vow; time!  Does marriage have a shelf life?  Is it disposable?  Is it temporary? Explore with them how God designed it and what His word has to say about it.

In this episode Ken and Shar discuss the second component of the marriage vow; the "conditions". Remember them? "For better for worse, for richer for poore, in sickness and in health."  

In this episode Ken and Shar talk about the foundation of any marriage; the "vow". They explore the importance of vow-keeping and dive into exactly what it is that we vowed to each other on our wedding day.

In this introductory episode Ken and Shar give a bit of their story and speak to the cultural drift eroding the biblical value for marriage.