Strengthening Your Marriage

How do you thrive when your marriage isn’t thriving? (Or in other relationships that aren’t thriving?) Jeremy and Hayley explore this question together in their latest two-part episode ‘When Your Marriage Isn’t Thriving’. They let you in on a season of their own ‘failure to thrive’ in marriage and reflect personally on what they’ve been learning.

How do you thrive when your marriage isn’t thriving? (Or in other relationships that aren’t thriving?) Jeremy and Hayley explore this question together in their latest two-part episode ‘When Your Marriage Isn’t Thriving’. They let you in on a season of their own ‘failure to thrive’ in marriage and reflect personally on what they’ve been learning.

How do you really connect with each other? (This is the second half of Connecting Personally.) Our marriages are rich when we sharing our hearts with each other. But just sharing is not enough. When Hayley shares her heart with me it’s critical that I meet her sharing with genuine interest. The kind of listening that ‘tracks’ what’s important to her. In this focus on sharing personally we’ve split content into two parts (episode 6 and 7). Hayley and I open up about what we’ve been learning own relationship about connecting in this way.

How do you really connect with each other? Our marriages are rich when we sharing our hearts with each other. But just sharing is not enough. Personal sharing needs to be met with genuine interest – listening that ‘tracks’ what’s important to our spouse. Jeremy and Hayley explore this personal connection in two parts (episode 6 and 7). As usual they speak openly about what they’ve been learning in their own relationship.

How do you own wrong in marriage? Relationships are messy. Marriage can be too. Our spouse can get in the way of what we want and we can respond in a hurtful way. How do we address what’s happened and move forward together with greater understanding and unity? In episode 5, Jeremy and Hayley speak about biblical habits of confession and forgiveness in marriage.

Have you ever felt unsure about what love looks like in marriage? Our culture throws up a range of definitions of love. But what really works? What makes us fully human? What leads to a deep and rich marriage? In episode 4, Jeremy and Hayley put forward God’s pattern of restorative love as a pattern for our marriages. They share a couple of application questions and and respond to them from own experience. They know what it’s like to live with a ‘love’ that lacks the richness of restorative love. Their marriage is a work in progress as God pinpoints ... Read more

Have you ever desired to change in marriage only to feel stuck by your track record of failure? Jeremy and Hayley speak to this experience and offer hope in their latest podcast episode ‘Enabled to Live a New Reality.’ Jeremy and Hayley continue from episode 2 in shedding light on what God’s “something better” looks like in our marriages. Again they speak personally from their own experience. They point us to God’s ways but also his power which enables them to change day by day.

In episode 2, Jeremy and Hayley ask the question of whether we’re willing to let go of our dream of marriage to embrace something better. Sometimes a good dose of pain and disillusionment is what we need to see the alternative God is holding out for us. Jeremy and Hayley discuss this personally — what dreams they’ve needed to let go of, what that’s meant for them and what this better vision for marriage looks like for them. Their hope is that this episode will get you thinking too. Giving up our own dreams for marriage isn’t a one-off exercise ... Read more

Introduction In this extended introduction Jeremy and Hayley open up about their own story, the impact of external pressures on their marriage and what they’ve been learning along the way. The same God who is committed to shaping their character and build a bedrock of trust in their marriage is also able to meet you and offer real hope for change. In future weeks they want to focus on one main idea to help you in your marriage, it’s application in their own lives as husband and wife and a suggestion for how it might apply to your marriage.