Do you ever feel like you and your spouse are two ships passing in the night? Strangers living under the same roof? Business partners executing the plans you’ve made for your kids and household? Then you’re in a disconnected marriage. The marriage relationship should nurture both spouses.

If you’ve lost the connection in your marriage, or just want to step up from where you are right now, tune in today to learn the practical steps for reconnecting.

We pray this episode is helpful for you and your marriage.

Episode highlights include:

• Why do couples disconnect?

• The steps to reconnection

• A helpful source for fun marriage ideas and resources

*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!

QUOTES

• “Little tweaks can make such a difference.” - Dr. Kim Kimberling

• “Living separate lives is not going to get you a connected, fun marriage.” Christina Dodson

• “We weren’t always there but we chose to stay in the marriage and work through things. It’s worth it.” - Dr. Kim Kimberling

• “You can continue to grow, but you have to work at it.” - Dr. Kim Kimberling

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Check in on your marriage each week with our Weekly Check In Guide to keep your connection strong Creative Questions Bundle

• Sign up here to get the Couple’s Conversation Guide for each episode!

• The Sex Talk course equips you to teach your kids about sex in a biblical, God-honoring way

If your marriage communication is a struggle, you are NOT alone. So many marriage issues come back to communication, and if your communication is awesome, your marriage will be too! But most of us will have some trouble with communicating well with our spouse, and it’s the biggest issue couples ask us for help with. That’s why today we’re equipping you with 6 tips to communicate well in the good times and in the bad.

We pray this episode is helpful for you and your marriage.

Episode highlights include:

• How to talk so your spouse can listen

• Use the “title page” trick to help your spouse listen to you

• Dr. Kim’s 6 tips to communicate well

• How to find a good counselor if you need one

• How to restart the openness & honesty in your marriage

*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!

QUOTES

• “I think what happens for guys is that when we’re dating our future wife, we up our game.” - Dr. Kim Kimberling

• “It’s hard for me to put my thoughts and feelings into succinct words.I can easily ramble on… but that doesn’t make for good communication.” - Lindsay Few

• “The bottom line is you want them to hear what you’re saying, so how do you best communicate in a way that they’re going to hear it?” - Dr. Kim Kimberling

• “If you’re going through a hard time, call it that. Work together to reclaim your time and energy.” - Lindsay Few

• “We can’t give away every piece of our heart, mind, time and energy to things that drain the life out of us.” - Lindsay Few

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Get the Couple’s Conversation Guide for each episode by signing up here!

• The Sex Talk course equips you to teach your kids about sex in a biblical, God-honoring way

• Dr. Kim’s blogs on questions to ask your counselor:

• • 4 Qualities Your Christian Counselor Needs

  • 3 Things A Counselor Needs To Believe to Help Your Marriage

  • 3 Mistakes Couples Make When They Try Counseling

• Our FREE Weekly Check In Guide helps with regular communication

• Making Your Marriage a Refuge with Special Guest Gary Thomas Ep. 530

• Achieving Awesome Communication in Marriage YouVersion Plan

It often feels like the world around us is too broken. Where would you even start if you wanted to try and fix it? On the podcast today, Charlie and Andi Ashworth answer this question, and thankfully their answer is much simpler and more doable than it might seem.

The Ashworths have spent decades sharing their creative gifts and encouraging others to do the same, and in today’s episode they artfully equip you to take small steps toward creativity, community, and reflecting the light of God’s love, right where you are.

Don’t miss this bonus episode! We pray this episode is helpful for you and your marriage.

Episode highlights include:

• How should Christians engage with culture?

• A call for culture making - and how simple it is to actually do it

• Why the small things matter - and how to use them for good in your life

• Hope for becoming the remedy to the loneliness epidemic

• How to balance the desire for creativity and the need to get things done

• Battling the dis-integration of “mundane” versus doing things we like

*Music for this podcast is created by Noah Copeland. Check him out here!

QUOTES

• “We make less and less meaning of everything now, because it’s happening so fast and we’re receiving so much information.” - Charlie Ashworth

• “There’s no small people; there’s no small things. Everything matters.” - Charlie Ashworth

• “We don’t know the stories that will continue after we do.” - Andi Ashworth

• “If all of life matters to God, then all of life matters to us.” - Andi Ashworth

• “We want a formula … but it is a process.” - Dr. Kim Kimberling

• “Based on your faith in Christ, what kind of culture are you making? Are you contributing good? Or are you contributing negativity?” - Charlie Ashworth

• “It’s antithetical to the word of God and to creation itself to think that we as people of God are somehow standing outside of it. It actually creates an ‘us’ versus ‘them’ mentality that is so unhealthy.” - Charlie Ashworth

• “Start with where you're at: You're actually getting up and making culture every day.” - Andi Ashworth

• “As an artist, maturity looks like a seamless integration of a diversity of creativity over time.” - Charlie Peacock
  

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

• Charlie and Andi’s book, Why Everything That Doesn't Matter, Matters So Much: The Way of Love in a World of Hurt

• Find more from the Ashworths on their website: https://thewriterthehusband.com/

• Andy Crouch’s book Culture Making

• Learn 7 reasons why your sex life may not be where you want it to be, and how to get it there! Sign up here for the 9 Ways to Improve Your Sex Life Webinar