Would you trade your family's future for a bowl of soup? 🥣 It sounds extreme, but we do it every time we prioritize a "right now" craving over a "forever" covenant. In our latest episode, Nathan and Andrea look at the story of Esau to uncover the "Lentil Soup Traps" in modern marriage—like choosing to win an argument over winning your spouse's heart.
Stop trading your birthright for a temporary fix.
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The Power of the 41st Day! 🙏 The Bible is full of stories where God waited 40 days, weeks, or years before answering on the 41st. This week, Nathan and Andrea are diving into these biblical patterns to encourage you in steadfastness—in your faith, and in your marriage! Don't give up right before the breakthrough.
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The Blueprint Continues! 🛠️ We're back with Part 2 of our "Back to Basics" series! In this episode, Nathan and Andrea dive deeper into God's incredible design for marriage, exploring topics like unity, roles, and purpose. It's time to build your marriage on a foundation that lasts.
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New Series Alert! 🎉 It's time to lay a solid foundation! In our first episode of the "Back to Basics" series, Nathan & Andrea tackle the most fundamental truth about marriage: God's Authority on Marriage. Why does God even have a right to put baundaries on marriage? Isn't marriage just a social construct? Dive in now!
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In this episode, we're diving deep into the biblical roots of thankfulness and how it can revolutionize your marriage.  Discover practical tips and scriptural wisdom to:
See your spouse through God's eyes. 🙏
Express appreciation in meaningful ways. 💕
Shift your focus to the positive. 😊
Build a stronger, more joyful connection. 💪
Let's get into that!
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Shame is such a huge part of what it means to be human. Where does it come from? Well, in short - it comes right from the beginning of the fall of man. Our perceived failures to meet a standard leads to shame and that shame can lead to a meltdown in our marriages as we hide and blame in an attempt to ease our shame. NO MORE! It is time to get back to "naked and unashamed."  Let's get into that!
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On to episode #3 discussing how the Gospel relates to marriage.  This is the one where we dig into what the Gospel message really is - and why it is simply incompatible to claim understanding and submission to the Gospel while failing to submit yourself to your spouse in your marriage. Let's get into that!
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We are kicking off Season 5 by diving into a new series all about how our mindsets as Christian individuals should be intimately weaved into our mindsets as Christian spouses......but we have found that is tragically rarely the case.  Lots of people say they understand the Gospel and believe in it fully, but their marriages suggest differently.  Where is the disconnect?  Spoiler.....it is tied to that human monster that live within each of us.  Let's get into that!
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We all have emotions.  God has put those emotions into our psyche and they can be helpful.  But o often we allow them to get the better of us and our emotions wreck havoc on our relationships.  Why?  What does it look like to take back control?  Let's get into that!
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On today's Marriage Monday, Nathan and Andrea dive into the book of Esther in the Bible.  Did you know that this is one of only two books of the Bible (along with Song of Songs) that do not mention God at all?  And it is a historical book - not even directly about marriage!  What can we possibly learn from that?  A LOT!  One of the characters in the story is doing something that is DESTROYING marriages all over the place!  Let's get into that!
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Nathan and Andrea have been taking a look at the "Intimacy Table" over the last several weeks.  Of those four areas of intimacy (emotional, non-sexual physical, spiritual, and sexual) the one they get questions about more than any other is sexual intimacy. Today, Nathan and Andrea are going to dive deep into a passage in Paul's first letter to the Corinthians that discusses this topic in detail.  But does it actually discuss MORE than just sex?  Let's get into that!  
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In this episode, Nathan and Andrea go back and take a look at what the Bible says about work - because THAT explains why marriage is such hard work......buuuuuuuuuuut, is that hard work a bad thing in God's eyes? Could it be that it is just our broken humanity that has made work into a problem? Let's get into that!
 
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In this episode, Nathan and Andrea take a look at Paul's encouragement to people in Corinth to remain single as Paul was at the time. Interesting that Paul refers to the single life AND the married life BOTH as gifts from God.  Why then is it so darn easy to think of them as something less than a gift? Let's get into that!
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In this episode, Nathan and Andrea discuss Paul's words to married couples in 1 Corinthians 7:5.  What does it mean to "fast"? How does that apply to sex within marriage?  Why does Paul instruct us not to "deprive" our spouses?  Is it okay to have a "sexless" marriage? Let's get into that!
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In this episode, Nathan and Andrea consider Paul's writing to us in 1 Corinthians 7:3-4 where Paul talks about our responsibility with regards to our spouse's "conjugal rights" and the authority that we have over our spouse's body.  So which takes precedent?  Our responsibilities or our rights?  How you answer that says everything you need to know about the direction of your marriage.  Let's get into that!
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In this episode, Nathan and Andrea consider Paul's direction to us in 1 Corinthians 7:1-2 discussing a question that was posed to Paul by the church in Corinth.  In addition, Paul will begin to expand upon what a God-honoring sexual relationship should look like in marriage.  Let's get into that!
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Today Nathan and Andrea dig into one of the most insidious killers of marriage and relationship to ever plague mankind - unforgiveness. But today they talk not about an individual's own unforgiveness, but rather the way that unforgiveness can be picked up by those around us and carried for generations - even after the original people have long since forgiven each other!  It's Biblical!  Let's get into that!
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Are you struggling in your marriage and beginning to lose hope that it can ever be better?  Do you feel like you keep trying to show your spouse how much you care and they just don't seem to get it - or reciprocate to you in a way that shows you how much they love you?  The answer may be in Ephesians 5:33, the passage that Nathan and Andrea discuss today on Marriage Monday.  Let's get into that!
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This episode is "the one".  Nathan and Andrea dig into Ephesians 5:31-32 which is the heart behind God's design for marriage.  If you want to know what God was doing when He created marriage - so that you can better know your role within your marriage and live that out practically - DO NOT SKIP THIS EPISODE!
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Today Nathan & Andrea take a further look into Paul's exhortation for husbands to love their wives as their own bodies.  Paul expands on that in these verse, challenging us that we either nourish and cherish our wives......or we hate them.  Which will it be for you?
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