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Christian Family Life
What started as a question “God you created marriage can you make it work?” soon became a statement “God, you created marriage you can make it work.” Thank you for joining us on the Christian family life podcast where we get into the good, the bad, and the ugly in our marriage relationships and mine God‘s word to see what it has to say about it.
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Reset Your Marriage
Is the grass really greener on the other side? We are the only ones that struggle with these issues? Things will never change? We should just focus on the…
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#couplegoals
Happy New Year!!! Today we talk about goals. How do we set up goals that will point us to the purpose God has for us as a couple, and create oneness in our…
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Generosity in Your Marriage And Beyond!!
When we think of generosity in the context of marriage, we typically envision a couple or a family being generous with others. But what would it look like if…
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Moving From Performance To "FAITH Love" In A Healthy Way!
It is imperative that faith-based values are balanced with an understanding of how they apply within a relationship. For example, forgiveness should be…
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Receiving The Gift Of "FAITH Love"
Being loved by faith is such a special gift that can be given to each of us. It is the greatest gift ever given by God through His son Jesus, but it can also…
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Are You Loving Your Spouse By Faith or Performance?
It's easy to define a performance based marriage, but it is not as easy to define a faith based marriage. Join us as we share some thoughts on this topic as we…
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Cultivating Thankfulness In Your Home
Join us today as we spend some time with Ryan and Marissa Pierce. They share a thought with us that will help us better understand how to cultivate…
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Are You Prioritizing Your Spouse?
When we understand God's faith principle of provision, we will grasp that our spouse is God's gift to us and because of that we should desire to make sure we…
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Are Thankful Thoughts In Your Head and Your Heart Toward Your Spouse?
Thoughts come from many different places. The enemy may tell us lies, which can sometimes be partial truths, luring us into believing them. People may speak…
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How Can We Be Thankful For Our Spouse?
It is easy to default to the negatives about our spouse! The realities of life can quickly send us down a path that makes us question our relationship and…
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Are You Choosing Your Spouse Over Your Friends?
Learning to transfer loyalty from your friends to your spouse is not as easy to do, especially if you have life long friends. Today our team talks about making…
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Are The Children In The Way of Your Marriage?
Good healthy boundaries should create bridges not isolation. As you create boundaries with your children it should draw you closer to the Lord, your spouse…
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Are You Married To Your Spouse or Your Work?
Often the word "Balance" is used to express one's idea of what a healthy life should look like. However, balance actually conveys the idea that everything in…
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In-laws or Out-laws?
Leave and Cleave is an important Biblical principle, but how are we using it? Are we pushing our extended family away or are we creating a bridge that creates…
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Boundaries vs. Bridges!!
The purpose of boundaries should be to establish health...not create division! Many times boundaries are weaponized to create space for what we want, not…
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Celebrating Children In Our Marriage!
God's second purpose for marriage is to reproduce a Godly heritage. There are so many negatives that our culture throws at us as couples when it comes to…
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Are You Wrestling Hurricanes in Your Marriage?
Brad and Tiffany Haines, author of Wrestling Hurricanes, join us on this podcast that was recorded in front of a live audience at Haerfest Coffee and hosted by…
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What Sustains A Marriage And What Legacy Can We Leave?
Sally Meredith, co-founder of Christian Family Life, joins us to share what sustained her marriage to Don and the legacy they have left for their children and…
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Redemption And Hope For Your Marriage
On todays episode we continue our conversation with Will and Cindy Goff. There story of how God completely restored what had been broken is inspiring and will…
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A Vibrant Marriage, From Beginning to End!!
What newlywed couple wants to know what skills will be needed about future events such as child rearing, midlife changes, empty nesters or retirement at the…
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Is Your Marriage Standing On A Strong Foundation?
We are joined today by Zach and Abi Schneider as they share some key elements that they included in their dating, engaged, and now married life to help them…
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Getting Back To The Basics Of Marriage!
Answering questions like Why Get Married?, Are Compatibility and Good Intentions Enough?, How Can We Live Happily Ever After?, How Can We Cultivate Authentic…
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Establishing A Right Foundation In Your Marriage!
Establishing a strong foundation before you even get married is so important. If you are dating or engaged make the time to have the conversations and go…
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Setting Goals In Your Marriage!
On todays episode we take time to talk about the importance of setting goals. We are fans of living in the moment, but also believe that you need to pray over…
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Practical Financial Advice For Couples!
Reed Crosson from Ron Blue Trust ronblue.com, shares some practical financial advice that you and your spouse can implement that will help relieve some of the…
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Talking Money and Marriage!
Today we spend time with Reed Crosson of Ron Blue Trust (https://www.ronblue.com). In the first part of a two part interview, Reed helps us understand the…
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Celebrating A Milestone: Episode 100!
Celebrating milestones in life are important! Today our CFL team has some fun celebrating a ministry milestone of 100 episodes for the Christian Family Life…
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Can Blessings Come From Trials?
We are conditioned to believe that nothing good can come from a trial. In todays episode we discuss what scripture says about trials and how we can look at…
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The Truth About Trials!
Join us today as we talk about the truth about trials. You’re either in one, coming out of one, or getting ready to go into one. It’s a crazy cycle that we all…
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Does Your Communication Help or Hurt?
Conflict within a marriage cannot be avoided. Scripture tells us not to be surprised (1 Peter 4:12) when trials come our way. How we communicate within those…
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Communication: Life or Death To Your Marriage?
Marriage communication problems were sited as the most common factor leading to divorce. How you communicate is such a big piece of the puzzle when it comes to…
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What's A Great Way To Invest In Your Marriage?
Gray and Shelly Foshee share with us how important it is to invest in other marriages. By doing so, the Foshee, were able to notice how much of an impact it…
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God's Power Changed Our Marriage And Now Fuels Us To Invest In Others!
Join us today as we talk with with Gray and Shelly Foshee and hear their story of redemption that has fueled them to become marriage missionaries. It's amazing…
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Are You Feeling Alone and Hopeless in Your Marriage?
LeWayne and Yasmine Young share with us the ups and downs of marriage and how they leaned on God to give them hope in the midst of navigating a blended…
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Remerge Marriage? What is it?
Join us on todays podcast as we interview Lewayne and Yasmine Young about the tensions in your marriage that come from a blended family. LeWayne and Yasmine…
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Great Advice To Strengthen Your Marriage!!!
Many people ask us, what is the best piece of advice you can give us to make our marriage better? Our answer today is very different than if we were to have…
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It’s Worth It!
Your marriage is worth fighting for. Enjoy mountain top experiences as you work through the valley. Today our team shares why the fight is worth it and…
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Getting Back To The Basics Of Marriage!!!
Freedom to love and accept your spouse is based on your relationship with God!! Letting God's love and forgiveness for you (The Gospel) flow through you to…
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Enjoy Your Marriage, Don't Just Endure It!!
"I wish there was a way to know you were in the good old days before you actually left them." Andy Bernard said this in "The Office". God not only has purpose…
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Part 2 Interview with Co-Author of "Secrets of Sex and Marriage" Dr. Michael Sytsma
Sex is one of the most common marriage issues (for example, nearly 80% of couples are mismatched in how often they want it), but it doesn't have to be that…
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An Interview with Certified Sex Therapist Dr. Michael Sytsma, Part 1
Today our CFL team sits down with ordained minister, licensed professional counselor, certified sex therapist, professor, and national speaker Dr. Michael…
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Continued Conversation with Shaunti Feldhahn on "Secrets of Sex & Marriage"
Join us on this second part of our conversation with Shaunti Feldhahn, co-author of "Secrets of Sex & Marriage". Shaunti shares with us some insightful…
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"Secrets of Sex & Marriage" with Co-Author Shaunti Feldhahn
Today we interview Shaunti Feldhahn who is a bestselling author, social researcher, podcaster, with a graduate degree from Harvard. Join us in this first…
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SIN! The Number One Marriage Killer
When we talk about the good, the bad, and the ugly of marriage, we point at the ugly and define it through he lens of sin!! the Bible says in Jeremiah 17:9…
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What is Killing Your Connection With Your Spouse?
Today we will touch on 3 more connection killers that are pretty prevalent in marriages. Hopefully this chat will help us sit and discuss these past six types…
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Marriage Connection Killers!
Do you remember those early days of dating and marriage? You were always thinking about each other, romance was alive and well, things were hot! What happened?…
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Are You And Your Spouse Experiencing Physical and or Sexual Intimacy?
Our CFL team was out in Snohomish, WA and our topic of discussion was Physical/Sexual Intimacy. We bring this important topic to the podcast to encourage each…
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Are You Experiencing an Emotionally Healthy Marriage?
Last week we talked about being Spiritually healthy with the Lord and allowing that to spill over into your relationships, starting with your spouse. We…
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Building Spiritual Intimacy in Your Marriage!
Spiritual Intimacy between husband and wife truly is a spillover of your personal relationship with the Lord. The closer we each grow in our walk with Jesus…
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Mental Health Leads To Relational Health!
Discover what you may need to help you heal so that you can strengthen your relationships around you. We've heard the phrase, "healed people heal people, hurt…
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Identifying Trauma And How It Affects Relationships!
Today we are joined, for a two part podcast, by Buffy Wimmer from Collaborative Counseling Group! Buffy will help us, in the first part, how to identify and…
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Mental Health and Relationships! (Part 2)
Kina Scott and Lisa Adam continue to give us amazing nuggets in the area of mental health and its affect on relationships. Being aware of symptoms like…
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Mental Health and Relationships! (Part 1)
We continue our conversation this month on mental health and it's affect on relationships. Today we are joined by Kina Scott and Lisa Adams with New Phase…
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Mental Health and your Marriage!
Our CFL team into what 2023 will look like for our podcast. We start off the year takling about mental health and how it affects your relationships, starting…
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"Faith Love" in action around the world!!
As we close out 2022 we are grateful for what God has done in marriages in communities, churches, and countries around the world. Today we highlight some of…
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The Pursuit of Intimacy During the Holidays!
During the hustle and bustle, we encourage you to take time to connect with your spouse. Today we discuss the importance of pursuing emotional intimacy with…
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Is Holiday Spending Causing Tension in Your Marriage?
According to a survey done by the American Psychological Association, money and finances are the number one cause of stress for Americans. Mixing the two…
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Is the Busyness of the Holidays Causing Tension in your Marriage?
We seem to get caught up in fulfilling all the expectations placed on us for the Holidays. Some expectations are placed there ourselves. We don't have to get…
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Holiday Tensions to Navigate as a Couple!! (Extended Family)
As you enter the holidays you could very well be navigating some real extended family tensions. Who's traditions will you keep, who's house to go to, do you…
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Working through conflict with your spouse in a healthy way!!
This podcast was recorded with a live audience from Defined Coffee in Mooresville, NC. Is conflict wreaking havoc in your marriage? Do you feel distant from…