Marriage After God
Aaron & Jennifer Smith
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Marriage After God is a weekly marriage focused podcast hosted by Aaron and Jennifer Smith, authors of Husband After God and Wife After God and their newest book titled Marriage After God: Chasing Boldly After God's Purpose For Your Life Together. Marriage After God is intended to encourage, inspire and challenge marriages to chase boldly after God together and to cultivate an extraordinary marriage with each other. Stay tuned each week for awesome marriage encouragement. We hope that we can shine a light on why God has brought you and your spouse together and how you can pursue His purpose for your life and family with joy and excitement.
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Mar 22, 2021
Jesus Is Our Passover
As Passover and easter approach we wanted to share how Jesus Himself has fulfilled the Passover feast in his life death and resurrection. In this episode, we share how the different elements of the Passover feast align with the life of Christ and we show how He fulfilled all of it. The feast is merely a shadow but He is the substance.
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Mar 15, 2021
Are We Living In The Last Days?
Speaking of the end of days we wanted to tell you about a movie that we recently watched that was really exciting and encouraging. It shares about how the return of Christ is like a Galilian wedding.
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Mar 8, 2021
Why What We Believe Is So Important
What do we believe? The answer to this question will explain why we do certain things, or why we remain in certain sins. It will show us why we chose certain attitudes and behaviors. Why we treat people the way we do or ourselves for that matter. What we believe matters and if we are believing lies then we will walk in lies. If we believe the truth then we will walk in freedom and power. What do you believe?
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Mar 1, 2021
Ways To Have Fun As A Family!
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Welcome to the "Marriage After God" podcast.
We your hosts, I'm Aaron.
And I'm Jennifer.
We've been married for 14 years.
And we have five young children.
We started blogging over 10 years ago sharing our marriage story in hopes of encouraging other husbands and wives to draw closer to God and closer to each other.
We have authored over 10 books together including our newest book "Marriage After God" the book that inspired us to start this podcast.
"Marriage after God" has a message to remind all of us that God designed marriage with a purpose.
To reflect his love.
To be a light in this world.
To work together as a team.
Using what he has given us.
To build his kingdom.
Our hope is to encourage you along your marriage journey.
As you boldly chase after God together.
This is "Marriage After God".
Hey everyone, welcome back to another episode of the "Marriage After God" podcast. We're are Aaron and Jennifer Smith, your hosts. I hope you have an awesome week. I just wanna start off by sharing a little thing that I'm doing with the van, Jennifer.
You're going to tell him about the van?
The van.
Okay, but it was my idea, like give me a little credit.
It was definitely your idea. So we love to drive which we'll talk about in the actually today's episode.
I have a normal van. Like it's not a minivan. It's not a, what is it?
Well, people call it...
They call it, it's the full size. It's a Ford transit, it's a big old boy, it's huge. It's got all the seats you could want.
For all the kids.
But you know what it doesn't have until now, a toilet. But I put a toilet in that van. And the reason we did that is because we like to drive. We like to go on road trips, especially with all the kids. It's so easy to, that's how we go see our family.
Yeah.
We get in the car and we drive
But it takes us like 15 hours to get there. So imagine being on the road with five kids, that's a lot of bathrooms stops and sometimes that's all we're stopping for. And so I told Aaron, we need a bathroom in here even if it's like something easy to sit on and...
And it is, and so I've been work. Something I've been doing as a hobby is work at building vans. And so I took my van and I built this box out in the back and I put a toilet in there today.
He showed me today, it actually looks really awesome.
I'm really excited to use it this spring, summer, fall.
All of our adventures. I told them, even if we go.
It's gonna change everything.
Even if we go to the lake for the day. Imagine how nice it will be when we're out on an adventure and even though we're kind of close to home we don't have to rush home. If someone has to use the bathroom, we can use that. And you're gonna put like a handheld shower thing.
There is gonna be a hot water shower in the back? Not like to take a full-blast shower in the van. We can rinse the kids off. We can rinse the boards off. We can, it's just gonna be awesome. So cool, guys I'm stoked about it. I'm pretty proud of myself. I have a friend helped me and we're doing a pretty good job and it's coming out nice. So this is totally in our van now.
Called the adventure wagon.
Yeah, it's awesome and it fits all the kids. Plus one, if we needed another seat.
Oh, interesting.
Okay, moving right along. Guys we just want to thank you for being our share warriors. Aaron likes to mention that every week and I think it's an amazing thing that you guys have been sharing your episodes and it's just been a huge encouragement to us but it's also just a great way to get the news out or the the word out about the "Marriage After God" podcast. And so we just wanted to say, thank you, and.
Before you move on to that part.
Okay.
I just wanna say we don't always do this but if you do share about our podcast to social media, we might repost it.
Like if we catch it on time.
Yeah, because we like to do that and it's really cool seeing people do it. So just a little .
Okay, second part we don't always do but I wanted to take some time out to personally shout out a specific family who I think is probably listening right now. And it started with some friends of ours who I just wanna say these friends have been such an encouragement to us and we really appreciate them. So Stan and Jessica and I know you're gonna be listening to this episode. Thank you for being our friends. Thank you for all the personal encouragement that you have poured into our lives, especially about the podcast because you have asked us about it, asked us how it's going. You've asked us how you can help in any way that you can. So I just wanna say thank you to them. But I also wanna say hi to all of their extended family because I know you're listening to just actually sent me a screenshot of one of their families, group texts showing how they were sharing the episode on love. And she was sending it as an encouragement to me. And I just thought how sweet that they're all listening and talking about it. And then I see, I see her sister on social media shared every once in a while. So thank you to all of you who are listening and specifically Stan and Jessica's family. We appreciate you, we love you guys.
All right, as usual we have a free thing that we want to promote to you guys. We love making these little resources and this one's been up for a while, but we haven't talked about it for awhile. It's our date night conversation starter download. It's totally free, and we came up with all these date night conversations, starters. So you can take them. You can go on a date and pick one of the topics and use it to start a conversation.
But you don't have to go on a date to use it either. I mean, you could do that...
You could sit at the table.
In front of the fireplace.
But dates are awesome.
Yeah, true.
So you should, you should use this as an excuse to go on dates with your spouse.
Hey, like I have to.
Yeah, so all you gotta do is go to datenightconversations.com all one word, datenightconversations.com. And it's completely free. You just fill out a little form and you download the little print out and print it out and you got all these conversations starters.
All right, we're excited to share today's topic with you guys. We are gonna be talking about just a whole handful of ways that you can have fun as a family. And we think that it's really important to talk about episodes like this. They're not as heavy as the ones where we dive into scripture and we're talking about...
Well let's go back and forth.
Yeah.
Serious, funny, light, yeah.
And I think that this one's important because we're getting into a different season. So lighter weather and warmer weather, hopefully but moving on into summer, you know just getting some ideas out there to say, hey, are we, are we having fun here.
But you have a note here it says, this is our funnest episode. And I actually thought, it said the funniest episode. And I was thinking, why is this gonna be so funny funny episode funniest, we should do a funny episode.
This is like one of those kinds of episodes that just super inspiring. Like, I hope you walk away from it just going, like I want to do everything that was on their list.
Yeah, and then we should redo everything.
Then we should go back and read it. Why, and we're also gonna share about why it's important to create a fun atmosphere regardless of what you may be going through because joy.
Because joy.
We're Christian and we believe in God and he is our source of joy and so.
We shouldn't make a shirt that just says, because joy.
Because joy.
Exclamation mark.
Also, if you hear the word family and think, well this doesn't apply to me because we don't have any children. Let us encourage you that your spouse is your family. So if you're listening, remember this it only takes two to m…
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Feb 22, 2021
6 Tips For Building A Strong Marriage
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[Jennifer] Welcome to the Marriage After God Podcast.
[Aaron] We're your hosts, I'm Aaron.
[Jennifer] And I'm Jennifer.
[Aaron] We've been married for 14 years.
[Jennifer] And we have five young children.
[Aaron] We started blogging over 10 years ago, sharing our marriage story in hopes of encouraging other husbands and wives to draw closer to God and closer to each other.
[Jennifer] We have authored over 10 books together, including our newest book, "Marriage After God," the book that inspired us to start this podcast.
[Aaron] "Marriage After God" has a message to remind all of us that God designed marriage with a purpose.
[Jennifer] To reflect his love.
[Aaron] To be a light in this world
[Jennifer] To work together as a team.
[Aaron] Using what He has given us.
[Jennifer] To build His kingdom.
[Aaron] Our hope is to encourage you along your marriage journey.
[Jennifer] As you boldly chase after God together.
[Aaron] This is Marriage After God. Hey everyone, welcome back to the Marriage After God podcast. We're Aaron and Jennifer Smith.
[Jennifer] Your hosts, hi.
[Aaron] And we're glad to have you, yeah, hi. Jennifer, what's going on in our world right now? Not the world, our world.
[Jennifer] We don't have enough time to cover all of that.
[Aaron] Exactly, very true.
[Jennifer] But our world, meaning you and I.
[Aaron] Yes.
[Jennifer] What is going on? It's good to be recording again with you.
[Aaron] Yes, it is actually. What are you drinking? What did I make you?
[Aaron] You made me chai, thank you.
[Aaron] It's like the world's best chai.
[Jennifer] It's really good.
[Aaron] It's Metolius chai.
[Jennifer] But when you asked me if I wanted, when I was saying yes, 'cause I thought you were making yourself one and you didn't.
[Aaron] No, I made myself a coffee. The chais are good, but the milk messes with my stomach. I can't do it, it's like too much. But I sprinkled some cardamom on the top of there. A little bit of vanilla bean sugar.
[Jennifer] It's fancy.
[Aaron] Yeah.
[Jennifer] Thank you.
[Aaron] You're welcome. So I just got a quick question for you before we move on, as usual. What's something that has brought you joy this week?
[Jennifer] Something that's brought me joy. Well, okay, this was actually really funny. So much joy, I was like, I was laughing about it. I was in the score room with the kids and you know that song ♪ Come thou fount of every blessing ♪ Okay? You know which one I'm talking about?
[Aaron] "Come Thou Fount." Is that what it is?
[Jennifer] I was just letting you know what song it was, 'cause usually, I'll say a name of a song and you don't know unless I'm singing, you know?
[Aaron] Yeah, I know, and you sung it really well.
[Jennifer] Thank you. Poor everybody else right now. Anyways, Olive loves to sing and hum and do all of that and so she was, I think she was trying to sing this song, and I could hear her as she's like playing with math tiles and she was saying& ♪ Come old faithful ♪ And I think, 'cause I don't know.
[Aaron] That's a good version.
[Jennifer] This is so cute. And it made me think of our trip to Yellowstone and seeing Old Faithful, which the kids still bring up that story of being able to see it, you know, shoot out and everything, but she thinks he lyrics are come old faithful.
[Aaron] Does she let you correct her? And that like with the character
[Jennifer] I didn't, it was too cute. I was just laughing about it.
[Aaron] Yeah, she loves to sing and she makes up her own songs. She's like more interested in making up her own songs than she is learning real songs which is great because she's probably been a songwriter.
[Jennifer] Yeah. It was really cute. I tried recording it and then I got caught and she didn't like that very much. She said I had to ask her if I was gonna record her.
[Aaron] You know, it's funny speaking about that. Our kids are like that from like day one, like Edith, all of our kids.
[Jennifer] Are we trying to record something?
[Aaron] They're like saying their first words and I'm sneaking the phone up so she doesn't see it. And then she like looks right over at me at the phone and she knows I'm recording and she just won't do it. She just sits there and then like strides to smack the phone out of my hands. It's like our kids now we don't wanna be on social media. Even though we don't ever post these things.
[Jennifer] Yeah, it wasn't even for social media. I was just doing it because it was so cute. I thought one day I'll show her show, you know her future husband or someone this, but it's all right, I'll get it one day.
[Aaron] You know what? Jesus is our Old Faithful, anyway.
[Jennifer] That's true. I should tell her that.
[Aaron] It's an accurate portrayal of the son.
[Jennifer] When I do correct her I will be sure to add that in.
[Aaron] Hey, we just, we love that you're all here. We're excited to be talking about this topic today. Before we move on to the topic I'd like to invite you, if you haven't yet to leave us a review today or a star rating, you could choose whatever amount of stars you want to give us. I often prefer five stars, but that's okay. If you want to do something less, that's fine. But we would love to invite you to give us a star rating and a review. Those are awesome. It helps people find the podcast. It also helps people know what people think of the podcast. And so with that being said, I'd love to read one of the reviews that someone left us and it goes like this. Oh, so I read before I read this, remember how when we first launched this season we talked about the new podcasts the new song we have the interest on. What's funny is this person mentions it. We talked about how catchy it is. He says this podcast has been amazing and highly influential in both my wife and my walk in honoring God with our marriage. Each episode is brought food for thought and encouragement to surrender our pride and give glory to God with our words, actions and thought life. There is humor as well as which is a plus, because some topics can be challenging and a laugh here and there helps lighten hearts while not taking away from the lessons learned or to be learned. Okay, if you're read this much, please help me out. I've been looking for this song "Can't Be Bothered" And only Miranda Lambert song "I Can't Be Bothered" It's coming up. I'm on the edge of going crazy. Who is the artist of this song? He keeps whistling inside of his head, it won't stop. So it worked and that's M Matthew's 51317 that wrote that review. And what's funny is it's not actually a song that's on any like album I think. It's from this like stock music site.
[Jennifer] So how does he find it?
[Aaron] They can go to artlist.com and look for "Can't Be Bothered"
[Jennifer] Okay, hopefully he finds it.
[Aaron] Yeah, but it's funny 'cause the song is really catchy,
[Jennifer] I didn't know you're going to share this this review that someone left. And I was just thinking, I'm really encouraged to hear that. He says that we, you know spread in a laugh here and there and that it lightens the topic that we're talking about which is good because the topics can be challenging. And I always wondered how people viewed that because I get really insecure or like, I think are they gonna think that I'm taking this too lightly? If I laugh right here.
[Aaron] They are not taking this serious enough.
[Jennifer] No, but like, I never want to offend anyone that I'm not taking it more seriously than I should especially depending on what we're talking about. So this is encouraging. Thanks for sharing it.
[Aaron] All right, so today we'll talk... All right, so today we're--
[Jennifer] I was gonna say, I think you just need a drum roll, hold on.
[Aaron] Okay. So today we're talking about six things to build a strong marriage. We hav…
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Feb 15, 2021
How To Comfort Each Other During Hard Times
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[Jennifer] Welcome to the "Marriage After God" podcast.
[Aaron] We're your hosts. I'm Aaron.
[Jennifer] And I'm Jennifer.
[Aaron] We've been married for 14 years.
[Jennifer] And we have five young children.
[Aaron] We started blogging over 10 years ago, sharing our marriage story in hopes of encouraging other husbands and wives to draw closer to God and closer to each other.
[Jennifer] We have authored over 10 books together including our newest book "Marriage After God," the book that inspired us to start this podcast.
[Aaron] Marriage after God is a message to remind all of us that God designed marriage with a purpose.
[Jennifer] To reflect his love.
[Aaron] To be a light in this world.
[Jennifer] to work together as a team.
[Aaron] Using what he has given us.
[Jennifer] To build his kingdom.
[Aaron] Our hope is to encourage you along your marriage journey.
[Jennifer] As you boldly chase after God together.
[Aaron] This is "Marriage After God." Hey everyone, welcome back to the "Marriage After God" podcast. We're in Jennifer Smith, your host-
[Aaron] Yeah, we're excited to be back with another episode.
[Jennifer] Do you know that we are more than halfway through the season?
[Aaron] I know, crazy. It's going by really fast and it feels good.
[Jennifer] Yeah. Hope everyone's enjoying it as much as we are.
[Aaron] Yeah.
[Jennifer] One thing I wanted to share with you guys just starting out the gate here, is took the kids for a walk, we have these really cool parks where we live in central Oregon, and just wide open nature, fresh air flowing river, awesome bridge to walk over, and we got outside. And sometimes it gets hard for me in the wintertime 'cause it's like, I don't know, it's cold.
[Aaron] and you did it by yourself, I missed out on it today.
[Jennifer] Yeah, usually I make you go along with me, huh?
[Aaron] Yeah.
[Jennifer] More hands-
I was impressed.
[Aaron] And I missed it, 'cause I like going on those little adventures with you.
[Jennifer] Well, a friend invited me, and it was just really good to get out despite it being cold, and the reason that I'm sharing this with you guys is because this friend of mine just is very enthusiastic and passionate about nature and being outside all the time, and so one of her ways of encouraging me is this challenge she gave me, this piece of paper that said the thousand hour challenge, and there's all these little bubbles that you get to mark off for every hour that you're outside with the kids, and I just thought how wonderful, and so it's been a fun little way of kind of keeping ourselves accountable to being outside every day, and the kids have loved being outside. I mean, they ask for it all the time anyways, so if anyone wants to take up that challenge, it's a thousand hour challenge.
[Aaron] How many hours have you done outside?
[Jennifer] I don't know, since I started it's been about a week. I think we got in I wanna say nine hours that I'm keeping track of.
[Aaron] So I'm outside playing all day out back. So like that counts as like the, towards the hours. It doesn't have to be on an adventure just outside-
[Jennifer] It could just be outside.
[Aaron] That's cool.
[Jennifer] Yeah, so anytime they're outside for an hour, I mark it off.
[Aaron] I was actually kind of wondering what that thing on the refrigerator.
[Jennifer] Yeah it doesn't really explain much.
[Aaron] That's awesome. But I will try and go next time, 'cause it looked like you had a lot of fun.
[Jennifer] It was a fun little adventure. Also the reason that I was bringing that up is because some of you may have seen me post on Instagram about it, just random pictures of us being out on our nature walk today. But I'm back on Instagram and that's new.
[Aaron] So you're saying everyone should message and say hi to you.
[Jennifer] Sure, say hi, pop in and say hi. I was off for pretty much all of January, and I had never taken a break like that from a social media. Like, so hands off, like, I mean, I deleted it from my phone and everything, and it felt really good. And then one day I just decided I missed it. So I came back and at first it felt weird to post, like I didn't know really how to, it felt new again. but I'm back. Do you wanna come see me? Come say hi.
[Aaron] Awesome, I just want to invite everyone, if you haven't yet to leave a review today, that'd be awesome. Five star rating, actually doesn't have to be five-star you can get, you can start whatever you want. Five star would be appreciated, but yeah leaving a review or a star rating today would be awesome. If you have done that, we're just so appreciative and it helps the algorithms. We always mention it. So if you take a moment today, we'd really appreciate it.
[Jennifer] Another thing that we wanted to offer you is very similar to what you may have heard in the last few episodes kicking off the season, but it's a little bit different. So we've been sharing about the marriage prayer challenge, today we wanna remind you and offer you and invite you to the parenting prayer challenge. And it's essentially the same concept. You can go to parentingprayerchallenge.com and sign up, and you'll get 31 days of prayer prompts to pray over your children.
[Aaron] And you can actually choose whether to pray for your son or your daughter or both, if you have both, and it's completely free, and we'd love for you to join that and take that challenge. And you could take it even if you're taking the marriage prayer challenge already. So you can be praying for your spouse and you can be praying for your kids. You should do that today.
[Jennifer] Again, that's parentingprayerchallenge.com.
[Aaron] So Jennifer, why are we talking about... Just real quick, I know this isn't in the notes, but why are we talking about comforting each other during hard times. When we came up with this list of ideas for episodes?
[Jennifer] Yeah, I think we already mentioned that the motivation behind the way we created our list this season was just, how we do every season is what have we been learning about? What have we been doing? What have we been walking through? What's God been teaching us? So partly from that just last year, there were times that you hard times that you comforted me and I comforted you. And it was a kind of relearning opportunity for us in our marriage of what it looks like to go through a hard time and be there for one another. And the other reason is just because I think that if you had, you know, a handful of categories that every marriage deals with, this is probably one, of the top ones where every marriage faces challenges and hardship and trials and hard times, and we get the opportunity as husband and wife to be there for one another. And so I think it's good to what we always say check our hearts or evaluate, you know, where we're at and how we're doing. And so we thought talking about how to comfort each other during hard times, would be inappropriate marriage topic for a marriage podcast.
[Aaron] I think so. And it's good for everything, not just your marriage, but I'm just thinking about situations in my life where I needed to be comforted by friends, by my parents.
[Jennifer] That's true, we are gonna go into more of just comforting others too.
[Aaron] But it's good, especially with how the world's going, and things have just been going on. I think there's plenty of opportunities to be comforted into comfort. And personally, this has been something that's very difficult for me to do to others.
[Jennifer] Comforting others or having compassion or empathy toward them?
[Aaron] All the above.
[Jennifer] Okay, I'm like, just clarify.
[Aaron] I don't know why. I couldn't tell you why, but emotiona…
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Feb 8, 2021
Don't Forget Who Is At Work Within You
We want to encourage you in your identity in Christ.
We want to remind you that you are not lesser no matter what part of the body you are.
And If you are struggling with doubt at all we want to encourage you to trust and know that God has given to you just like he has given to every other believer His spirit.
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[Jennifer] Welcome to the "Marriage After God" podcast.
[Aaron] We're your hosts, I'm Aaron.
[Jennifer] And I'm Jennifer.
[Aaron] We've been married for 14 years.
[Jennifer] And we have five young children.
[Aaron] We started blogging over 10 years ago, sharing our marriage story in hopes of encouraging other husbands and wives to draw closer to God, and closer to each other.
[Jennifer] We have authored over 10 books together, including our newest book "Marriage After God", the book that inspired us to start this podcast.
[Aaron] "Marriage After God" is a message to remind all of us that God designed marriage with a purpose.
[Jennifer] To reflect His love.
[Aaron] To be a light in this world.
[Jennifer] To work together as a team.
[Aaron] Using what he has given us.
[Aaron] To build his kingdom.
[Aaron] Our hope is to encourage you along your marriage journey.
[Jennifer] As you boldly chase after God together.
[Aaron] This is "Marriage After God." Welcome back to another episode of the "Marriage After God" podcast we're Aaron and Jennifer Smith, your hosts.
[Jennifer] Hi.
[Aaron] How's it going? We're so glad you're here. And I just wanted to let we love you. And this episode is gonna be some Bible. I don't know if we, do we ever-
[Jennifer] Some Bible .
[Aaron] Do you ever talk about the Bible in this podcast?
[Jennifer] It's kind of a lot of Bible. Actually, that's a good note. If you wanna follow along in this episode with your Bible, I think it could encourage you.
[Jennifer] Yeah, we're gonna be first, not 1 Corinthians. We're in breathing Colossians
[Jennifer] 1 Colossians.
[Aaron] 1 Colossians. 1 Colossians 3.
[Jennifer] So I know, we mentioned that we're gonna be in a lot of Scripture today. I wanted to start with one random scripture that doesn't have anything to do with what we're talking about. And that's just because I was really encouraged by it. A friend was sharing from Proverbs:27,17. Which says, "Iron sharpens iron, and one man sharpens another." And I don't know if I just read the ESV version. Is that right? Okay. And he basically said, it doesn't say iron sharpens wood, or is sharpened by any other means it was the same compound, it was iron and iron. And I just loved that. It was such a small little tidbit of recognizing word choice in the Bible that I thought that's really cool because...
[Aaron] What are you-
It shows the importance of why we need other Christians in our life. Because we sharpen one another when we believe the same and we operate off the same principles and the same-
[Aaron] And we rub up against each other.
[Jennifer] Yeah.
[Aaron] Being in relationship, and fellowship.
[Jennifer] And fellowship and all of that is so important. And it wouldn't work. If it was any other compound. It wouldn't work if those people weren't Christians, if they weren't reading God's word or abiding in Him.
[Aaron] They're made of the same stuff.
[Jennifer] They're made of the same stuff. The same property, the same people, right?
[Aaron] Yeah. I remember what you were talking about. It was really good. Because we need we need people in our life. We can't do this alone.
[Jennifer] Yeah.
[Aaron] An iron rod just sitting there by itself, it's not getting sharpened .
[Jennifer] Right, not gonna do anything, just sitting there-
[Aaron] I will actually just sit and corrode and not be useful.
[Jennifer] Yeah. So just a small encouragement for... An actually is kind of what we're gonna be talking about today. But it is good to-
[Aaron] Oh yeah, look at that.
[Jennifer] Be reminded that we need people.
[Aaron] I think people are gonna think we planned it that way.
[Jennifer] I didn't, I promise. Here I'll throw in a freebie, a different thing. 'Cause I like to start these intros with something fun. For any of you who are parents of small children. I forgot how fun these are, but I grew up on a old telephone with a long cord.
[Aaron] The rotary phones.
[Jennifer] You know, the kind that plugs into the wall. We're also used to cell phones now. I don't know if people even have phones like this anymore that actually work. But I was at an antique store, thrift store, and I found one for really cheap. And I just thought, "Oh, the kids will have a blast playing with this pretend in the playroom." So I bought one, and Olive won't stop playing with it today. She literally, I'm not kidding you. I was doing some school with Elliot. And she was standing behind you had like this little kids kitchenette thing. And she was on the... It was one of those, what are they called? Rotary phones?
[Aaron] The rotary phone, yeah.
[Jennifer] And she has-
[Aaron] With the cord.
[Jennifer] Right, with the cord. And she's got one end up to her ear and she's playing with the cord with her finger. And I look over and she's got a pillow stuffed under her shirt. And she's talking to someone, her best friend on the phone about her pregnancy. And about how hard it's been lately. But she's talking as if like-
[Aaron] Who taught her to do the finger twirl thing-
[Jennifer] I don't know. It was so funny. So anyways, it was a very cheap piece of fun for the kids and a little bit of history.
[Aaron] That's a really funny story. I think Olive's awesome. Getting into the episode. If you haven't done so yet, would you leave us a review today. Star rating a review, we love those. They're very impactful to us. And they help other people find the episode. We'd love if you did that. And one more thing, we've been heavily promoting our marriage prayer challenge this season. It's the beginning of a new year. We're just hoping to get a lot of people just getting in the habit of prayer this year. God wants us to be praying people. So we made this prayer challenge it's completely free, so that it encouraged you and inspire your prayer life for your marriage. It's marriageprayerchallenge.com. It's completely free. It's a 31 day challenge, where we send you an email with a prompt for something specific to pray for, for your husband or your wife. And if your husband and wife are listening, right now, both you go sign up together, it would be awesome, we can be praying for each other.
[Jennifer] Do it. Okay, so the title of this episode is, Don't Forget Who is at Work Within Us, within you?
[Aaron] Within Me. You.
[Jennifer] Were all listening.
[Aaron] Yeah. This is for all of us. Because we can forget.
[Jennifer] But we're not gonna. Okay. Let's back it up just a bit. We wrote "Marriage After God", which This podcast was inspired because of. But the "Marriage After God" book which came out a year and a half ago now, it was a message that Aaron and I had been learning and experiencing in our own life in marriage. And it was a message we found incredibly impactful. So we wanted other marriages to experience it. So we wrote this book, laid it all out for you. And there's quite a bit to unpack in "Marriage After God". But the premise is that, everyone, everyone, you, me, everyone listening, especially marriages as a unit, we all have a place and a purpose in the body of Christ in the church. Operating in this world, not for ourselves but for God.
[Aaron] When you say everyone, you're talking about believers.
[Jennifer] Believers.
[Aaron] In the body of Christ.
[Jennifer] Yeah.
[Aaron] Yeah. So there's not some believers that don't have a purpose?
[Jennifer] No.
[Aaron] There's not like, not like one or two that-
[Jennifer] We all.
[Aaron] Every single one of us.
[Jennifer] This is a quote from "Marriage After God", it says, "The beauty of the body of Christ is that each and every part is unique, your marria…
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Feb 1, 2021
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[Jennifer] Welcome to the marriage after God podcast.
[Aaron] We're your hosts, I'm Aaron.
[Jennifer] And I'm Jennifer.
[Aaron] We've been married for 14 years.
[Jennifer] And we have five young children.
[Aaron] We started blogging over 10 years ago, sharing our marriage story and hopes of encouraging other husbands and wives to draw closer to God and closer to each other.
[Jennifer] We have authored over 10 books together, including our newest book "Marriage After God", the book that inspired us to start this podcast.
[Aaron] "Marriage After God" is a message to remind all of us that God designed marriage with a purpose.
[Jennifer] To reflect his love.
[Aaron] To be a light in this world.
[Jennifer] To work together as a team.
[Aaron] Using what he has given us.
[Jennifer] To build his kingdom.
[Aaron] Our hope is to encourage you along your marriage journey.
[Jennifer] As you boldly chase after God together.
[Aaron] This is, Marriage After God.
[Aaron] Welcome back. We're Aaron and Jennifer Smith, your host of the Marriage After God podcast. How are you doing Jennifer?
[Jennifer] I'm good.
[Aaron] Yeah, what are you drinking?
[Jennifer] I'm drinking hot chocolate.
[Aaron] I got a cup of coffee. This is like our second time now doing like having drinks while we're-
[Jennifer] Yeah, last time we both had tea, which was?
[Aaron] Interesting.
[Jennifer] Fun.
[Aaron] I like tea. But I love coffee way more. So I'm having some coffee right now.
[Jennifer] Speaking of drinks, me and the kids were learning about water this week, which is just fascinating. I think that if you haven't had a chance to study water, I just want to encourage you that you should, cause it's cool. But did you know that it takes like 45 to 50 gallons of water just to make one cup of orange juice?
[Aaron] Are you talking about like from the ground, like the tree?
[Jennifer] Yeah, like what's required to produce a cup of orange juice.
[Aaron] Oh, the amount of oranges.
[Jennifer] Yeah, not 50 gallons of water to mix with frozen orange juice concentrate.
[Aaron] So, for the tree to grow the amount of oranges necessary, it takes about 45 to 50 gallons of water. That's actually incredible.
[Jennifer] Cause it's over time, that the orange grows.
[Aaron] So when I have a couple of oranges, it's like drinking 50 gallons of water. That's my water for the month.
[Jennifer] I don't know, I thought it was interesting.
[Aaron] That's awesome.
[Jennifer] Little tidbit that I memorized this week. But also I gotta say one more thing about water, because as we were reading this book, this orange juice fact was one of them in there, but it also said that, and I didn't know this, Aaron did you know this?
[Aaron] Nope.
[Jennifer] Let me say it first. That a snowflake, how it's made, and you can look this up, like if you Google the definition of a snowflake. Although be careful, look up the scientific like.
[Aaron] Of snow.
[Jennifer] Of snow, a snowflake.
[Aaron] Yeah, that's funny.
[Jennifer] How it's composed is actually ice crystals forming around a piece of dust.
[Aaron] Okay.
[Jennifer] Okay, and I sat there and I, my jaw dropped and the kids were like, what mom? And I'm like, wow, the Bible talks about how, well, that hymn popped up into my mind, he washes us white as snow. And I thought, you know, the Bible talks about how as people we're made from the dust, Adam was made from the dust. And here's this picture of a dust molecule flying through the air, surrounded by snow, ice crystals, and that's what makes a snowflake. I just thought it was such a beautiful picture. So I had to look it up and Isaiah 1:18 says, "Come now let us reason together says the Lord, though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow, though they are red, like crimson, they shall become like wool." And so there's this contrast of what we've done and that color of Crimson, that red, and they shall be as white as snow, pure white, no shadows.
[Aaron] It's almost like God designed it that way. He had a cool, these pictures of the gospel.
[Jennifer] I know but it's like hidden because no one goes around looking up, what is a snowflake? We all just assume it's snow.
[Aaron] I've known about snowflakes for a long time but didn't know that they were formed around dust. I just thought they're formed in the air.
[Jennifer] I think it's so phenomenal, I think it's so pretty, I love it.
[Aaron] And it is, when the Bible tells us that, he is a hidden attributes, his divine nature is seen clearly in nature. I think that's awesome. And we're seeing little bits of this like these truths that God has in the Bible, but it's also shown in nature, which is amazing.
[Jennifer] Yeah, I saw another verse, Hebrews 10:22, not quite about snow or snowflakes, but talking about water. And it says, "Let us draw near with a true heart and full assurance of faith with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience, conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water." I thought that was another really just great verse that happened to pop up when I was researching about snow.
[Aaron] And these are good verses to remember as Christians because that's who we are. Because there's times that we don't feel that way. Cleansed, washed white as snow. You know, the enemy comes in and reminds us of our filth, reminds us of our sin, those things the wrong thoughts, the attitudes, and then the Holy Spirit says, well, no I'm cleansing you of that. And I'm growing you, and I'm maturing you. So let's move forward.
[Jennifer] Let's be something beautiful, like the uniqueness of a snowflake. Which I love because it's covering the dust. The ice, it covers it. And I love that picture. And a bonus when I was looking up pictures of a snowflake online, and there was these pictures like super zoomed in, on a snowflake, and when light hits it, it reflects a prism, a rainbow, because the composition is still water, and I love that. I love that this whole picture within one of the smallest things that we see with our eyes is a snowflake. And you get the dust molecule, the snow surrounding it, God's promise of a rainbow right there.
[Aaron] That's awesome.
[Jennifer] I don't know, it was just mind blowing to me.
[Aaron] So next time you see a snowflake, think about yourself, think about God making you white as snow.
[Jennifer] Yeah.
[Aaron] And that's awesome, it's a gospel.
[Jennifer] Cool little intro there.
[Aaron] That was a really good intro, yeah.
[Jennifer] You're welcome.
[Aaron] We just wanna invite you if you have not done so, but many of you have, so we just wanna thank you. Many of you have left reviews and ratings for this podcast, and you've done them in various places wherever you listen to this podcast, you've left reviews and we love that. But if you haven't yet, if you haven't given us a star rating or review and you've been blessed by this podcast, would you do that today? Would you bless us by leaving a review that helps people find the podcast? It helps all the algorithms know how to rank our podcast. And it helps people that, when they find our podcast to know what it's about and what peoples testimonies are.
[Jennifer] It's also kinda like a virtual high five. So if you wanna high five Aaron and I for what we do for you here on Marriage After God, give us a high five.
[Aaron] I like that, a virtual high five. This is a review that someone left, and it says this, I can't say their name. I don't know how to say that. Anyways it says me and my husband are literally all for this podcast. We love how real they are and how they use personal experiences to teach us from their perspective. I love you guys, excited for the next channel. Love that. I think they're probably talking about next episode maybe .
[Jennifer] Or next season.
[Aaron] Next season. Anyways, we just,…
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Jan 25, 2021
Raise Your Hand If You Need Some Rest!
Rest is a wonderful and amazing idea! We are so glad God came up with it. The word rest in the old Testament is Sabbath. So in today's episode, we talk about rest, Sabbath, and the importance of it in our lives.
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Jan 18, 2021
How To Delight In The Lord and Your Spouse
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[Jennifer] Welcome to the Marriage After God podcast.
[Aaron] We're your hosts. I'm Aaron.
[Jennifer] And I'm Jennifer.
[Aaron] We've been married for 14 years.
[Jennifer] And we have five young children.
[Aaron] We started blogging over 10 years ago, sharing our marriage story in hopes of encouraging other husbands and wives to draw closer to God and closer to each other.
[Jennifer] We have authored over 10 books together, including our newest book, "Marriage After God," the book that inspired us to start this podcast.
[Aaron] "Marriage After God" is a message to remind all of us that God designed marriage with a purpose.
[Jennifer] To reflect His love.
[Aaron] To be a light in this world.
[Jennifer] To work together as a team.
[Aaron] Using what He has given us.
[Jennifer] To build His kingdom.
[Aaron] Our hope is to encourage you along your marriage journey.
[Jennifer] As you boldly chase after God together.
[Aaron] This is Marriage After God.
[Aaron] Welcome back, we're Aaron and Jennifer Smith, your hosts of the Marriage After God podcast. We have a fun topic for you today. A light one and we think you're gonna enjoy it. We're excited to share it with you all. And hopefully it inspires you in your relationship with God and your spouse.
[Jennifer] Yeah, before we jump into it, which we'll do shortly, Some of my closest girlfriends were praying recently for the men in our life, husbands, fathers-
Thank you.
[Jennifer] You're welcome. Just really wanting to lift up our men who are leading our families. Also, bearing the weight of care for everything that's been going on in our nation, in our world, because just by nature they're protectors, providers, it's on their mind, and we care about them. And so as they consider everything that's going on and how it will impact the family, and how they navigate it with us, we just felt concern to bring them before the Lord and pray for them. And I just love that we had the opportunity to do that. But with that, I wanted to also say Aaron and I want to recognize that there's just a lot going on right now. And I mean, we're only a few weeks into 2021 and it's already been historical and I'm not talking about just the memes. That's not funny.
I thought it was funny. The memes are pretty historical.
[Jennifer] Aaron was just sharing some with me.
[Aaron] And hysterical.
[Jennifer] No, anyways, this is serious. Just this first part's kinda serious. Because Aaron and I, just like you guys, we get to navigate what's going on in the world around us and respond to it. But because we also have an online presence and this platform of a podcast, we wrestle with questions like, hey, are we gonna address that thing that happened? Do people wanna hear our opinions? Does God want us to speak to that issue? And it's just, I know for me personally it's a lot, but we do wrestle.
[Aaron] Yeah. It's not something that we just pretend isn't going on. But I think what we've landed on is that the most important message is that of Jesus Christ and drawing people back to the Word of God. Would you agree?
[Jennifer] Absolutely. Yeah, and the reason that I wanted to share this is just so you guys know our hearts is that we are navigating and wrestling those things and you don't see all of those things happening. And so I thought it'd be nice just to address it and let you know that we are watching, we are praying, we know that there's husbands and wives out there who are impacted by some of the current events that are happening, whether it be political, or a natural disaster, or any sort of crisis. We know that those things are happening. However, like Aaron just mentioned, we're gonna stick to the things that God has purposed in front of us and the stories and the experiences and the things that we can speak to in His truth to encourage you, because that's what we created this podcast for is to encourage you guys.
[Aaron] Well, and I would reiterate that we firmly believe that the Word of God, that walking with the Lord, is the response to whatever is going on. We talk about it in the platform of marriage and that aspect of life, but it's not like your job and politics and your marriage and your parenting and your friends and your church are all separate things in boxes that get dealt with differently. We deal with it all the exact same way. Now, that doesn't mean that we have all the answers, but what it does mean is we know who does, and we know who to run to, and we know what the Word of God says. The Bible is the eternal Word of God. It's living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, cutting through to the bone and marrow. It discerns the hearts of men. So that's what our mission is, like you said last episode, Jennifer, is our ministry is to the church. Now we have ministries outside of that as well, but our main one pretty much for our whole marriage and life has been ministering to believers. And so in these times, we're not the ones equipped to bring up political commentary. We're trying to be equipped to bring up what the Word of God says and encourage you in that.
[Jennifer] Now, being a marriage podcast and knowing that Aaron and I, we struggle and navigate some of these things, we can speak to really quickly and encourage those who are watching the news or experiencing these things happening and unfolding. So can we quickly just dive in for maybe a minute or two, how can a husband and wife-
[Aaron] Process.
[Jennifer] Process and navigate these things as a couple?
[Aaron] Well, what we could do, what our flesh probably wants to do, is get anxious, break down, feel overwhelmed. These are the natural responses to things that are out of our control.
[Jennifer] Or confusion.
[Aaron] Yeah, confusion or anger even. But you know what? The Bible addresses all of those things. And I think, well, we can do one thing is we can share the things that we're coming across and that are giving us anxieties.
[Jennifer] Like if I'm reading the news and something just strikes a chord in my heart and I can't let it go, like it's just sitting with me, I can bring that to you and say, "Hey, I've really been thinking about this. It's kind of consuming my mind, can you-
[Aaron] Pray for me.
[Jennifer] Pray for me or help explain it to me or whatever I need in that moment.
[Aaron] And that's what we're supposed to do is bear each other's burdens. So communicating about it, not just holding it in, not just saying, "If I bring that up, it's gonna cause something," or, "I can't talk about that," but like going to your spouse, going to your church, and just saying, "Hey, I'm dealing with something about this thing that I saw, or this thing that I heard, or what's going on in the world."
[Jennifer] Another thing that you can do that we do is commit to praying for the things that you see and hear. Don't just scroll past it, don't let your heart become desensitized to it.
[Aaron] Which is a good encouragement for me because, I mean, I haven't had social media on my phone for a little bit, but when I did, I would see something going on in the world and I'd be like, "Oh, that's horrible," and then I'd scroll right past it.
Bummer it, yeah.
[Aaron] But stopping and saying, "I can't be there, I can't like physically help, but I can pray. And I know that I know a God that can help and has a plan for this," that's good. Something that would be really helpful probably for the entire world is to take breaks away from consuming the news. Right?
[Jennifer] Yeah. I would say even in today's era of the way the internet works is even taking a break from actively engaging. If you're one of those people that leaves comments and dives in right away, hit the pause button, be slow to speak, be slow to dive into those things until you've wrestled and processed with God, with your husband, with your family, and get your heart right.
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Jan 11, 2021
God's Not Done With Us
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Welcome to the Marriage After God podcast.
We're your hosts. I'm Aaron.
And I'm Jennifer.
We've been married for 14 years.
And we have five young children.
We started blogging over 10 years ago. Sharing our marriage story in hopes of encouraging other husbands and wives to draw closer to God and closer to each other.
We have authored over 10 books together including our newest book, "Marriage After God". The book that inspired us to start this podcast.
"Marriage After God" has a message to remind all of us that God designed marriage with a purpose.
To reflect His love.
To be a light in this world.
To work together as a team.
Using what He has given us...
To build His kingdom.
Our hope is to encourage you along your marriage journey...
As you boldly chase after God together.
This is Marriage After God.
Welcome back to the Marriage After God podcast. We're your hosts, Aaron and Jennifer Smith.
Hey guys
What are you drinking there?
What? Oh.
What are y…
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Jan 4, 2021
WE ARE BACK With A Word For The New Year!!!
WE. ARE. BACK!
we missed you all. We have a word for you this year and we share what God has been working in us since we took our hiatus back in June!
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Dear Lord,
Thank you for this last year. Although it was difficult and different in many ways, we know you were working. We trust you and we hope for all that is to come, all that your word says will come. We are excited for this new year and the many opportunities we will have by your grace to share Your gospel with others. We pray for boldness and great faith. We pray for the right words when the time is right. We pray for receptive hearts and we pray for revival. May you draw hearts closer to yourself. We pray marriages would be stronger this year. We pray our eyes and our hearts would be focused on you, what you are doing, and how we can participate. We pray for truth to prevail. We pray gratefulness will overwhelm our hearts and our minds.…
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Jul 7, 2020
Making Changes Together
Change is inevitable. Some love it, some hate it and sometimes it can't be avoided. Today we talk about how we make changes and we also share some change that we are making with Marriage After God
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Jun 29, 2020
Our Role In Cultivating The Soil Of Our Children's Hearts
Dear Lord,
Thank you for the responsibility of parenting. It is not always easy, yet it is a worthy and noble task. We pray we would be intentional parents who tend to the soil of our children’s hearts. We pray we would be willing to get down on our knees, to get dirty even when its inconvenient or challenging and show our children how to live according to your ways. We pray we would raise our children to know You and know your word. May you plant seeds of salvation in their hearts and may our children receive you and be world changers, bringing you glory!
In Jesus’ name, amen!
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Jun 22, 2020
Marriage Inspiration From Some Unlikely People In The Bible
In This episode we want to talk about a few people in the bible that have really encouraged us lately and we hope their stories encourage you and your marriage as well.
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Jun 16, 2020
The Promises Of God
Do you feel weak or powerless? Do you feel like you can't walk in freedom? If that is you today We want to encourage you from the word of God.
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His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,
by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.
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Jun 8, 2020
Our Salvation Stories
In this episode, we share how we both came to know and walk with the Lord!
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Jun 1, 2020
How We Walk Through Trials and Hardships in Marriage
The world as a whole seems to be experiencing crises. In the last five months, we have seen headline after headline in the news and on social media. There is so much hardship, pain, death, loss, uncertainty, fear, chaos, and unrest.
In addition to it all, there are countless more trials, hardships, and painful circumstances that didn’t make headlines. We are all hoping for peace. We are all wondering how to walk out these things, especially together in marriage.
Whether you are currently facing hardship or if those times are ahead to come, we want to encourage you to walk through them in your marriage together, supporting each other and looking to God's Word to guide you.
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May 18, 2020
Our First Home Birth During A Global Pandemic?? The Story
We start season 4 off by sharing the story of our first home birth.
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[Aaron] Hey, we're Aaron and Jennifer Smith with Marriage After God.
[Jennifer] Helping you cultivate an extraordinary marriage.
[Aaron] And today we're gonna share our first home birth story. Welcome to the marriage after God podcast where we believe that marriage was meant for more than just happily ever after.
[Jennifer] I am Jennifer, also known as unveiled wife.
[Aaron] And I'm Aaron, also known as husband evolution.
[Jennifer] We have been married for over 13 years.
[Aaron] And so far we have five children under eight.
[Jennifer] We have been doing marriage ministry online for over nine years through blogging, social media and writing over 10 books.
[Aaron] With a desire to inspire couples to keep God at the center of their marriage, encouraging them to walk in faith every day.
[Jennifer] We believe that Christian marriage should be an extraordinary one full of life...
[Aaron] Love.
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Mar 23, 2020
How To Communicate Better In Marriage - Biblical Answers To Your Questions
This Q and A topic is all about communication in marriage. Which we mention often in almost every episode because it is such a vital component of marriage. You have to talk to each other! We answer several questions that were submitted by our listeners. Please enjoy.
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[Aaron] Hey, we're Aaron and Jennifer Smith with Marriage After God.
[Jennifer] Helping you cultivate an extraordinary marriage.
[Aaron] And today we're gonna answer your questions about communication in marriage. Welcome to the Marriage After God podcast, where we believe that marriage was meant for more than just happily ever after.
[Jennifer] I'm Jennifer, also known as Unveiled Wife.
[Aaron] And I'm Aaron, also known as Husband Revolution.
[Jennifer] We have been married for over a decade.
[Aaron] And so far we have four young children.
[Jennifer] We have been doing marriage ministry online for over seven years through blogging and social media.
[Aaron] With the desire to inspire couples to ke…
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Mar 16, 2020
What Does Moses and The Burning Bush Have To Do With The Gospel?
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In this episode, we have a fun conversation about the experience Moses had with the Lord and the burning bush. Reading the Old Testament and the many miraculous things God has done over history is a powerful way to see who God is and His plan for redemption even from the beginning.
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Mar 9, 2020
Our Favorite Non-Toxic Products
Our physical health and learning how to take care of our bodies have played a large role in our growth of the years. In the beginning of our marriage, we dealt with sexual issues and after 4 and a half years living with those problems we finally discovered what we believe was a major contributor to those problems. We began replacing our toxic products with non-toxic products and almost immediately found healing in the area of intimacy. We have had many people over the years ask what kinds of products we use now and so in this episode we share a little of our journey and the products we like to use. Pleas enjoy!
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_Dear Lord,_
_Thank you for our bodies. We pray we would be good stewards of our bodies and consider all that goes on them and in them. We pray we would be willing to take the time and research the items we use on a daily basis, using things that help us and not hurt us. Lord, we ask that you would give us wisdom as we navigate living a healthy lifestyle. Help us to ma…
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Mar 2, 2020
The Power Of Touch In Marriage
Physical touch is such a powerful and amazing gift from God. He designed us for it. We need it. And it is physically, spiritual and emotionally damaging when we avoid it or do not get enough of it. In this episode, we discuss why Physical touch is so important and we give some practical tips on how to touch and be touched more.
* Embracing each other says “I trust you and need you in my life.”
* A comforting hug says, “I’m here for you.”
* A kiss says, “You are mine! And I love you!”
* Holding hands lets your spouse know you like them and like spending time with them.
* Tickle rubs, massages, running your fingers through their hair says, “I want to make you feel good.” ...And most times lets them know you desire more physical touch.
Being married and living in that sacred space of physical closeness, embrace, touch...there is no other relationship like it on Earth. Make the time to send those messages of love to your spouse through touch.
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Feb 24, 2020
Q & A - Not Seeing Eye To Eye In Marriage
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* How do I become more selfless in my marriage?
* What are some Tips for consistency in communication within marriage to build intimacy?
* How do we live for God together...my husband never really been to church Etc?
* How do you work through disagreements on hobbies? IE motorcycles?
* How do you keep chasing dreams God's call you to, when your spouse is in a totally negative place?
* Do you still struggle with trusting your husband? Speaking about p 0rn and how can you battle thoughts?
* What is your number one advice to couples struggling?
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[Aaron] Hey, we're Aaron an…
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Feb 17, 2020
How Love Covers A Multitude Of Sins
This devotional episode is based on 1 Peter 4:7-11. We wanted to share how Love covers a multitude of sins and why it is so important that we love with this level of eagerness.
1 Peter 4:7-11 The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers. 8 Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.Prayer
Dear Lord,
We lift up our hearts to you right now and ask that you would make us a people who love others earnestly. Holy Spirit direct our hearts and remind us of your word. We pray we would above all things love others. We pray we would love our spouse, our children, our friends, and those who are in our life. May your love pour out of us. May your love pouring out of us transform our marriages. We pray others would be impacted by the love we share. We pray we would be able to love so deeply that it covers a multitude of sin. We pray that instead of shame or guilt, people would feel undoubtedl…
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Feb 10, 2020
Fun Ways To Spend Quality Time With Your Children
We are about to have our 5th child and with our growing family comes more of a necessity for spending quality alone time with each of our kids. The logistics of this also get more and more Complicated but that should not stop uf from trying and growing in our ability to single out our children to show them that we love them, want to hear from them, and want to get to know them as individuals in the family. In this episode, we share some practical ways to get some alone time with each of your kids and why it is so important to cultivate that experience on a regular basis.
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PRAYER
Dear Lord,
Thank you for the gift of family. Thank you for the blessing of children. May we be people who are willing to make our children feel special, and to feel seen and heard. Help us to spend quality time with them, building fond memories and moments that build our t…
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Feb 3, 2020
How A Wife Can Encourage Her Husband To Lead Spiritually
This is a cool topic that actually came from some wives in the MAG community online who asked us to specifically talk about this. It is so encouraging to know that there are wives out there who are actively trying to understand how to help their husbands lead their home.
What we believe about spiritual leadership is found in scripture.
Ephesians 5:23-25 “For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.”
1 Corinthians 11:3 “But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.”
Prayer
Dear Lord,
Thank You for the gift of marriage. Thank you for the opportunity to consider these things and how we can mature as a couple. We pray we would walk in righteousness, gentleness and self-control. We pray we would be people who see others through the lens of compassion. Help us to be thoughtful in our responses to each other. Help us to…
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Jan 27, 2020
Q&A Having Children, Birth Control & how many kids to have and more
In this episode, we answer questions for our community about having children, birth control, how many kids to have and more.
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PRAYER
Dear Lord,
Thank you for the gift and blessing of children. Thank you for creating and designing us with the ability to recreate, what an incredible miracle life truly is. We thank you for the opportunity to build our family and have children. We pray for others who either have not had children yet or in awaiting their first in anticipation. May you lead them in the way you desire them to walk and to grow together. We praise you for all those who have children and we also pray for those who can’t have children for whatever the reason may be. You are sovereign and we trust you. We continue to surrender our hearts to you as you lead us in parenting and raising our children to know you. Please help us with our fears and insecurities. Please remind us ev…
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Jan 20, 2020
Why Suffering Is GOOD For Every Believer
I would imagine that suffering is not a very popular topic amongst most churches today but suffering is a vital and important part of every believer's life and It should not and cannot be a topic that is left out of our Biblical thinking. Suffering comes in many forms and our heart today is to discuss the biblical view of suffering and how it is a powerful mindset and tool in our lives.Download Free Thing
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Devotional - what are we learning from the Word
Romans 8 "Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin, 2 so as to live for the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human passions but for the will of God. 3 For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies,…
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Jan 13, 2020
Fun & Unique Valentine’s Day Gift Ideas For Your Spouse
With Valentine's Day just around the corner, we thought it would be fun to share some gift ideas to help inspire you. All of the gifts we share in this episode are things that we love and use often.
ONE QUICK NOTE:_ If you are trying to get out of debt we suggest skipping gifts for a while. Instead, find free ways to bless each other and show your spouse your are thinking of them. We never want to promote spending when we can't or shouldn't._
PRAYER:
_Dear Lord,_
_Thank you for being the ultimate gift giver. Thank You for the gift of marriage. We pray our hearts would be pure in the way we give gifts to each other. We pray we would be thoughtful in the ways we give to each other. Help us to study and know our spouse well enough to give them gifts we know they will love. More than giving good gifts, we pray our love would be genuine and deep and extraordinary as we pursue intimacy with each other. Grow our love for one another…._
In Jesus’ name, amen!
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Jan 6, 2020
It Is Time To Be People Of Our Word
In this episode, we explore the topic of new year resolutions and how being people of our word is so much more important. Jesus tells us that we must be people who mean what we say. Our YES must be our yes and our NO must be our NO.
We also give simple tips and ideas on how to be better at keeping our word this year and how not being people of our word can hurt not only ourselves and our relationship with our spouse but also with our kids and others.
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Aaron: Hey, we're Aaron and Jennifer Smith with Marriage After God.
Jennifer: Helping you cultivate an extraordinary marriage.
Aaron: And today we're going to talk about how to be people of our word. Welcome to the Marriage After God podcast where we believe that marriage was meant for more than just happily ever after.
Jennifer: I'm Jennifer also known as unveiled wife.
Aaron: And I'm Aaron also known as husband revolution.
Jennifer: We have been married for over a decade.
Aaron: And so far we have four…
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Nov 28, 2019
Answers to Your Questions
Hey Friends!
In today's episode on the Marriage After God Podcast, Jennifer and I took the time to answer your questions. A question we received stirred up what we feel is a good reminder for us all as we give thanks during this Holiday season. "Keeping your faith in the hard times will produce a hopeful mindset." Aaron Smith
Our faith is important to us no matter the season and it's easy to praise God when life is great. However, we can quickly forget to praise God when things aren't going great. "Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds..." James 1:2.
With this episode comes our sign off for the year and we hope to return sometime in January or February. Thank you so much for listening! Jennifer and I are incredibly grateful for your support and had fun answering your questions. We wish you and your family a Merry Christmas.
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Nov 20, 2019
Stop Hiding Before It's Too Late
In Today's Episode on Marriage After God podcast, we are encouraging you to stop hiding before it's too late! This episode was inspired by our own experience of concealing our relationship issues, as well as other couple's stories we have seen unravel.
Over the years, we have received countless emails and messages from couples sharing that they were on the verge of divorce. Some of whom we knew personally, and some we didn't. The ones that we knew especially hurt us, and we felt blindsided by the problems in their marriage.
How can problems go unseen? You can avoid community and fellowship altogether, or you can do what Jennifer and I had done at the beginning of our marriage - hide in plain sight. Though we had close friends, we never let people truly know us or our struggles.
Our hearts for this episode is that it would encourage you to stop hiding. The Devil wants us to hide in shame and be isolated, so we don't bring about change. We pray that this episode encourages you to seek…
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Nov 13, 2019
The Lord's Prayer
Prayer is such a vital part of every Christian's life. In today's episode, we are going to be discussing the Lord's prayer. The Lord's prayer is spoken by Jesus when he gives the Sermon on the Mount. This teaching is super important because it emphasizes the importance of prayer and a personal relationship with God.
"And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that others may see them. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. And when you pray, do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard for their many words. Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him. Pray then like this: 'Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on eart…
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Nov 6, 2019
Encouragement for Chasing Boldly After God Together
In today's episode on the Marriage After God podcast, our goal is to encourage you on your pursuit to chase after God. Everyone needs encouragement and to be reminded of the hope they have from time to time. We urge you to listen thoughtfully to this episode and share it with your spouse or anyone else that could use some cheering.
"The first encouragement we want to give all of you on your journey is: don't be afraid! This journey can be fear-filled sometimes, and the enemy wants to make us afraid. So, I just wanted to read this verse, Jeremiah 17:7-8 ESV 'Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord.He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit." - Aaron Smith
We pray this message leaves you hopeful as well as excited about God's plan and purpose for you.
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Oct 30, 2019
Boundaries With the Opposite Sex - Part Two
Today, we are entering into the second half of our topic, "Boundaries With the Opposite Sex." If you didn't listen to last week's episode, listen to it right now before jumping into today's podcast!
"I want to encourage everyone out there, that maybe their spouses aren't at this place yet, and remind everyone that it's a growing process. We didn't just show up to our marriage with this way of being and understand it fully and walk in it perfectly. We are walking this out day by day. " Jennifer Smith
We pray that today's podcast would start a healthy conversation between you and your spouse and that your hearts would be submitted to God and protecting your marriage from the enemy. If your heart is already for this, we encourage you to walk out what you desire your spouse to step out and fervently pray for their heart.
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Oct 24, 2019
Boundaries With the Opposite Sex - Part One
In today's episode, we're talking about hard conversations again, but this time, we're very specific. "Blessed is the one who finds wisdom and the one who gets understanding." Proverbs 3:13. As always, we hope to inspire you to be a light in this world. Our hearts desire that everyone listening, listens with a teachable heart. We pray this episode blesses you.
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Oct 17, 2019
7 Battle Verses for Overcoming Sin - Part Two
The word of God is sharper than any two edge sword it cuts through the bone and it pierces to the soul, it’s the thing that transforms us. Today in the Marriage After God Podcast we are going over four anchor verses to meditate on when you are trying to overcome sin.
“If you’re a believer and you’re practicing sin and getting better at it, you better think long and hard of what you know of God, and to who you belong. “ Aaron Smith
Our desire is that today’s podcast not only helps equip you to overcome temptation and sin, but that it also prepares you to encourage your spouse when they are wrestling with sin. We pray that this episode blesses you.
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Oct 9, 2019
7 Battle Verses for Overcoming Sin - Part One
The word of God is sharper than any two edge sword it cuts through the bone and it pierces to the soul, it’s the thing that transforms us. Today in the Marriage After God Podcast we are going over several anchor verses to meditate on when you are trying to overcome sin.
“This is not a conversation about how to be saved, that we walk perfectly and holy and that’s how God is going to receive us. No. This is a conversation that the believers are already saved, and being sanctified. But it’s through the knowledge of the word of God that we are more and more sanctified and walk in more and more holiness. The desire is that we hate our sin more and more the same way God hates our sin because our sin destroys us.” - Aaron Smith
Our desire is that today’s podcast not only helps equip you to fight temptation, but that it also prepares you to encourage your spouse when they are wrestling with sin. We pray that this episode blesses you.
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Oct 2, 2019
Encouragement for Newlyweds
Everyone can use a little encouragement now and then so whether you just got married (congrats!) or you've been married for a long time stay tuned for today's episode! After all, don't we all want to have the newlywed exuberance, excitement, and love?
1 Corinthians 13:4-8 ESV "Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away."
Our desire is that today's Marriage After God podcast helps you quickly realize what your marriage is actually about so you can start your marriage off with an eternal perspective. If you know any newlyweds or soon to be newlyweds please share this episode with them so that they might be enco…
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Sep 25, 2019
The Return Of Christ
In this episode, we discuss the return of Christ and how it is to encourage us as believers.
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Sep 18, 2019
The Gospel
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The gospel is the foundation of everything us Christians believe, and the reason we started our Marriage After God ministry. In this week's episode of The Marriage After God podcast, we are discussing the singular most important topic we will ever discuss on this podcast - The Gospel. There is both infinite simplicity and complexity in the gospel, but today our goal is to simplify the gospel.
"There's a reason why we want to simplify it, I don't know about you, but I'm going to be a little bit vulnerable here. I have been a Christian for a very long time... I became a Christian at 17, and now I'm 35. I was raised in a Christian home, so I knew God, but it wasn't until maybe three years ago that I could actually fully verbalize the gospel." - Aaron Smith
Our goal is that today's podcast will clarify the gospel message for our listeners and get them comfortable wit…
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Sep 11, 2019
What Does God Love?
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I was reading in Psalms 37, and there was a line that says “For the Lord loves justice”… and I thought how cool is it that the word directly told us what God loves.
I thought it would be fun and instructive for us to find out if there are any more places in the bible that tell us directly what God loves.
If God loves it, maybe we should too. And we know from Psalm 107 that God's steadfast love endures forever. It never ends or changes so he must still love today those things he said he loves back then.
Psalm 36:7 How precious is your steadfast love, O God!
THE WORLD John 3:16
16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
The world, meaning the people he created in His image. Mankind
1 John 4:19 We love because he first loved us.
If God loves the people he created, then I think we must do the sa…
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Sep 4, 2019
Here We Go Again!
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Aug 28, 2019
Tips For How To Say Something Difficult To Your Spouse
There comes a moment in every marriage, if not many moments in marriage, that a couple needs to have a hard conversation with each other. This is one of those conversations that require a bit more than just chatting over dinner.
* Confronting sin
* Parenting differences
* Inlaw relationship conflict
* Big decisions
* Areas of growth or change We have had our share of these.
We thought we would use this time today to share with you how we have experienced these types of conversations in our marriage and what we have learned, in hopes of encouraging you when these moments come up in your marriage. The wrong way
* Emotionally charged
* - No properly dealing with emotions
* - Stuffing down until the conversation
* With generalities
* - You always
* - You never
* On different sides
* - viewing your spouse as an enemy rather than partner
* Personal agenda or wrong motives
* Not specific and focused
* Drawing up other issues and mixing with curren…
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Aug 21, 2019
The Parable of the Good Samaritan
In this episode, we discuss a powerful and edifying way to interpret The Parable of the Good Samaritan.
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Aug 14, 2019
An Easy & Fun Way To Start A Family Bible Time In your Home
In this episode, we share a very fun, engaging and easy resource to help you start a family bible time in your home.
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Aug 12, 2019
What does Hobby Lobby, Giveaways, and Marriage Have In Common?
God is so good!!! Jennifer and I are so excited that our newest book, Marriage After God, is now available at your local Hobby Lobby! How incredible is that!
PS. Hobby Lobby is the cheapest place to find our book. It's only $14.99, which is a whopping 40% OFF.
But instead of just announcing it to you, we wanted to launch a fun giveaway instead to see if we could encourage you to go to your Hobby Lobby. Since there isnt enough reasons already ;) First, let's talk about what we are giving away.
* 1 winner to receive a $250 Hobby Lobby Gift card!😃
* 10 winners will receive a $25 Gift Card to our online store. 🤗 Now for the fun part! Here is how you enter.
* Visit your local Hobby Lobby
* Find the Marriage After God book in the book rack
* Take a picture of the book on the shelf and post it to Instagram or Facebook
* Tag the photo with #hobbylobbyfinds & @marriageaftergod
* (Optional) Bonus entry, Buy a copy :)
We will pick and announce the winners on Friday, Aug…
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Aug 7, 2019
Some Creative Ways To Help You Get Out Of Debt
There are many reasons why you might want to make some side money. Getting out of debt was the reason we did. In this episode, we share with you some very unique and creative ways to make some extra cash today. We start off the episode with how the Bible teaches us to view money to get our minds and hearts in the right place.
PRAYER
Dear Lord,
Thank You for providing scripture about money, about how we should view it and how we should steward it. We pray we never have a love of money. We pray we would be wise in how we make our money, how we spend it and save it. We pray our finances would honor You. Help us to be united in marriage when it comes to money. Help us to communicate respectfully about money. In times that we are striving to make extra cash, we pray that You would guide us and show us what we should do. If any of the striving is in vain, please convict our hearts and redirect us. May the pursuit of money never be at the cost of our relationship with You, Lord, or with ou…
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Jul 31, 2019
The Power Of Confession In Your Marriage & How To Do It.
The Bible tells us in James 5 to "confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person has great power as it is working."
Confession is one of the most powerful gifts God has given us. It is by confession that we are saved. (Romans 10:10) It is by confession that we are healed. When we confess our sin we are saying that God is right and we are not. It is humbling our selves. It is the killing of our flesh just as Jesus tells us to take up our cross and follow him. But confession can be hard especially because it is exactly the opposite of what our flesh wants. Confess exposes our nakedness and our natural instinct is to protect that nakedness and to cover it up. But when we hide we allow our sins and wrong ways of thinking to live on instead of being cut away. In this episode, we talk all about the power of confession and how it can be done well in our marriages.
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Jul 24, 2019
Date Night Ideas Are Fun
We all need a little inspiration every once in a while. Who am I kidding! We need it all the time lol. Here are some fun and creative date night ideas for you to try out with your spouse on your next date.
* CALLING ALL PARENTS!
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Jul 17, 2019
The Story That Makes Us, Well, Us!
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This episode of Marriage After God is reflection back on our first few years of marriage, including what we went through and how God saved us. We vulnerably share about pornography addiction, our experience with painful sex, a discovery that helped us heal, and much more.
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Jul 15, 2019
Right When I was Ready To Give Up on My Wife, God Changed My Heart!
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Jul 10, 2019
For Those Who Have Some Fears About Their Family Growing
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TRANSCRIPT
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Hey, we're Aaron and Jennifer Smith with Marriage After God.
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Helping you cultivate and extraordinary marriage.
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And to day we're gonna be talking about fears of a growing family and how to combat them biblically.
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Before we get started today, because this topic is kind of surrounded around growing family and having kids, I wanted to share that we do have resources for parents called 31 Prayers For My Son and For My Daughter, and these are great resources for you to pray over your children. They're 31 prayers in each book talking about different topics in the child's life and there's also journal pages that after each prayer you can just make it more personal and we've had some positive feedback about these resources. Parents are really loving them, so make sure you get a copy.
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Well first off I just wanna thank everyone for joining us to…
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Jul 3, 2019
Does God Have A Calling For My Marriage? + FREE 52 Date Night Conversations Starters Download
What is God's Calling for your marriage? Listen to today's episode and find out :)
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Aaron Smith: We're Aaron and Jennifer Smith with Marriage After God ...
Jennifer Smith: ... helping you cultivate an extraordinary marriage.
Aaron Smith: Today we're going to be talking about God's calling for your marriage. Lots of people think they have a calling, or don't know what their calling might be, but we believe that there are six callings that every Christian marriage has, and we're here to share them with you.
Jennifer Smith: So, Aaron, before we get started, can you just explain a little bit about what does it mean to have a calling? What does it mean when you hear the word I have a calling on my marriage? Like, so people understand what we're saying.
Aaron Smith: Just growing up in the church, we've all heard this idea of our calling, and a lot of times it's our ind…
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Jun 26, 2019
How to Encourage Your Spouse In Times Of Doubt & Fear
Times of doubt and fear will come and how we handle it matters. If you have been blessed by this podcast and would love to support it please take a moment and pick up a copy of our new book Marriage After God. https://marriageaftergod.com
PRAYER
Dear Lord, Thank you for the gift of marriage. Thank you for the gift of life. We pray that doubt and fear would not overwhelm our hearts and minds. We pray we would not let doubt or fear keep us from doing the things you have called us to do. May your Holy Spirit remind us of Your Words and encourage our hearts to be faithful and brave, people who rely on your strength and power. We pray we would be quick to encourage one another through moments when doubt or fear arises or when something happens that triggers these emotions to stir up. Help us not to worry and help us not to be anxious. May your peace comfort us and remind us of our security in You. In Jesus’ name, amen!
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Jun 19, 2019
We Create A Family Mission Statement
Having a mission statement for your family isn't required but it can be very beneficial for creating and maintaining the culture of your home. Jennifer and I have never created a mission statement before so we thought we would make one while you listen. If you have been blessed by the Marriage After God podcast please consider supporting it by picking up a copy of our book titled Marriage After God.
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[Aaron] Hey, we're Aaron and Jennifer Smith with "Marriage After God".
[Jennifer] Helping you cultivate an extraordinary marriage.
[Aaron] And today we're gonna do something fun and we're gonna talk about creating a family mission statement. Welcome to the "Marriage After God" podcast, where we believe that marriage was meant for more than just "Happily Ever After".
[Jennifer] I'm Jennifer, also known as "Unveiled Wife".
[Aaron] And I'm Aaron, also known as "Husband Revolution".
[Jennifer] We have been married for over a decade.
[Aaron] A…
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Jun 12, 2019
Can I Fall Out Of Love In My Marriage?
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* Is love something that we can fall in and out of?
* Can I still be in love if I don't feel like it?
* What if I'm not happy in my marriage anymore?
* If I fell into love once can I fall into love again with someone else?
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[Aaron] Hey, we're Aaron and Jennifer Smith with Marriage After God.
[Jennifer] Helping you cultivate an extraordinary marriage.
[Aaron] And today, we're gonna be tackling the question, can you fall out of love in marriage? Welcome to the Marriage After God podcast, where we believe that marriage was meant for more than just happily ever after.
[Jennifer] I'm Jennifer, also known as Unveiled Wife.
[Aaron] And I'm Aaron, also known as Husband Revolution.
[Jennifer] We have been married for over a decade.
[Aaron] And so far, we have four young children.
[Jennifer] We have been d…
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Jun 5, 2019
It's Time To Say Yes To God
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Who are we looking for to join the movement:
* -Passionate Christ followers.
* Marriages who are ready to chase boldly after God’s will together.
* Those that are ready to help start a marriage after God movement. What Do Members Of The Movement Get?
1. 52 Must-Have Date Night Conversation Starter For A Marriage After God
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Mar 26, 2019
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Jan 30, 2019
The Importance Of Doing A Marriage Devotional Together
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Quote From Husband After God on page 16
“Marriage is an opportunity to bring glory to God as you share with
the world His testimony by loving your wife the way Christ loves the
church.”
Quote From Wife After God on page 117
“Being a submissive wife is beautiful, as it reflects God’s divine
order. When a husband loves his wife like Christ loves and a wife
submits to her husband, that reflection clearly represents God’s
grace-filled love story. The benefits in a marriage like this are
extraordinary.
Why its important to do a marriage devotional together:
* Cultivating oneness and intimacy Get on the same page Growing in the
word of God together Stimulates conversation Being ready in and out
of season give an answer for the hope that you have Investment for
marriage Example for our children you have something to pas…
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Jan 23, 2019
My Personal Struggle With Pornography and Lust as a Wife
We are sexual beings. God created us with a beautiful way of expressing deep love in marriage through the physical action of being one with our spouse, and it is the way he designed us, humans, to recreate, to multiply his image. Just like any wonderful and necessary part of God’s design and purpose, the enemy has found a way to destroy it.
The last episode we talked about Aaron's struggle with pornography and how it affected our marriage. Today we thought we would share my struggle and pull into the light the truth that pornography is not just a guy problem.
Dear Lord,
We pray first and foremost that husbands and wives would give you their hearts, that they would obey all that you command in your word and that they would love you with all of their hearts. We pray that if any of them are addicted or struggling with pornography that they would choose to stop today. Holy Spirit, please remind us daily of Your desire for us to live holy and pure lives. We pray we would not live in hi…
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Jan 16, 2019
My Personal Struggle With Pornography as A Husband
NOTE: We don't share any graphic detials in this episode but this is not an episode to listen to around children.
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In this episode, I share my history with an addiction to pornography and how it affected Jennifer. Jennifer And I both discuss how it made her feel and how it affected every aspect of our marriage but ultimately how the Lord freed me from this sin. Our prayer is that by being open and vulnerable about this sensitive and taboo subject that a light would be shown and that many other men and women would find freedom and healing.
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[Aaron] Hey we're Aaron and Jennifer Smith with Marriage After God,
[Jennifer] Helping you cultivate an extraordinary marriage.
[Aaron] And today we're gonna share our personal journey with pornography in our marriage. Welcome to the Marriage After God Podcast, where we believe that marriage was meant for more than just happily ever after.…
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Jan 9, 2019
Answering Your Questions About Finances
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“If you will live like no one else, later you can live like no one else.”
― Dave Ramsey
1 Corinthians 10:24-27
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.
How do you view debt that one person brought into the marriage as “ours” especially when the two of you are on different pages about spending before the debt is paid off?
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Jan 2, 2019
7 Ways To Encourage Your Married Friends
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We think every married couple would agree that a little encouragement goes a long way! Marriage can be difficult and the enemy is good at convincing us that we should shrink back in our issues, isolate from one another, and try and get through it on our own strength. But we need to be reminded of who we are in this world, that we are loved, and that our marriage is valuable. We need to be reminded that our marriage has a great purpose for God's Kingdom. Every marriage needs this.
That is why we are giving you 7 ways to encourage your married friends in this week's Marriage After God Podcast episode. We share a handful of ways you can be reminding your married friends that their marriage is worth fighting for, that they should be drawing close to God, and that they are being prayed for by you!
As Christian husbands and wives, we should be enc…
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Dec 19, 2018
The Strength That Joy Brings To Our Homes
Some stories of joy in our home with practical tips to cultivate a habit of joy in our homes.
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[Aaron] Hey, we're Aaron and Jennifer Smith with Marriage After God.
[Jennifer] Helping you cultivate an extraordinary marriage.
[Aaron] Today we're gonna talk about the strength that joy brings to our home. Welcome to the Marriage After God Podcast, where we believe that marriage was meant for more than just happily ever after.
[Jennifer] I'm Jennifer, also known as Unveiled Wife.
[Aaron] I'm Aaron, also known as Husband Revolution.
[Jennifer] We have been married for over a decade.
[Aaron] So far, we have four young children.
[Jennifer] We have been doing marriage ministry online for over seven years through blogging and social media.
[Aaron] With a desire to inspire couples to keep God at the center of their marriage, encouraging them to walk in faith every day.
[Jennifer…
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Dec 12, 2018
Being Faithful In The Little Things Will Prepare Us For The Big Things
Let's be faithful with the small things so that we will be faithful in the big things.
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[Aaron] Hey we're Aaron and Jennifer Smith with Marriage After God.
[Jennifer] Helping you cultivate an extraordinary marriage.
[Aaron] And today we're gonna talk about how being faithful in the little things will prepare us for the big things.
[Aaron] Welcome to the Marriage After God podcast where we believe that marriage was meant for more than just happily ever after.
[Jennifer] I'm Jennifer, also known as Unveiled Wife.
[Aaron] And I'm Aaron, also known as Husband Revolution.
[Jennifer] We have been married for over a decade.
[Aaron] And so far we have four young children.
[Jennifer] We have been doing marriage ministry online for over seven years through blogging and social media.
[Aaron] With the desire to inspire couples to keep God at the center of their marriage, encoura…
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Dec 5, 2018
Asking God To Search Our Hearts
The Bible tells us that the crucible is meant to refine, and God will allow us to go through things in our lives that will act as crucibles to bring us to a place where the dross of our character can come to the surface.
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[Aaron] Hey, we're Aaron and Jennifer Smith with Marriage After God.
[Jennifer] Helping you cultivate an extraordinary marriage.
[Aaron] And today, we're gonna talk about asking God to search our hearts. ♪ Whoo ♪ ♪ Hey, hey, hey ♪
[Aaron] Welcome to the Marriage After God podcast, where we believe that marriage was meant for more than just happily ever after.
[Jennifer] I'm Jennifer, also known as Unveiled Wife.
[Aaron] And I'm Aaron, also known as Husband Revolution.
[Jennifer] We have been married for over a decade.
[Aaron] And so far, we have four young children.
[Jennifer] We have been doing marriage ministry online for over seven…
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Nov 28, 2018
Spiritual Stamina and prayer
Join us as we discuss how God has been showing us His desire for us to grow in our spiritual stamina in our prayer life. Prayer should be a normal occurrence in the believer's life and it has been a foundational element of our marriage over the years but lately, we have been feeling that God is desiring us to pray more. In order to grow our stamina, which is the ability to handle more, in our spiritual life is by doing it more.
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[Aaron] Hey, we're Aaron and Jennifer Smith with Marriage after God…
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Nov 20, 2018
QUICK UPDATE: IT'S Thanksgiving :)
Changing up the format a bit. New equipment, where we are at with the podcast and where we are going. Just a short update. Happy holidays!
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Nov 14, 2018
How To Enjoy A Stress Free Holiday Season
A stressful holiday season with all the planning and shopping and traffic is seemingly impossible to avoid. But what if there was a way to enjoy this holiday season with peace and joy rather then stress and anxiety? Well, we believe this is possible.
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SHOP MARRIAGE RESOURCES
https://shop.marriageaftergod.com
FOR WIVES
https://unveiledwife.com
https://facebook.com/unveiledwife
FOR HUSBANDS
https://husbandrevolution.com
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Hey, we're Aaron and Jennifer Smith with Marriage After God.
Helping you cultivate an extraordinary marriage.
And today we're gonna share how to enjoy a stress-free holiday season.
Thank you so much for joining us this week and we're really ex…
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Nov 7, 2018
Why A Heart Of Thanksgiving Is Important For A Marriage After God
Thankfulness in marriage is necessary and unthankfulness is destructive. In the season of thanksgiving, the meaning of thankfulness can easily be lost. In this episode, we give some tips on how to have a biblical mind on thankfulness and how to walk in it every day. We all need to be reminded often to fill our hearts with thankfulness.
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Take our 31-day marriage prayer challenge today and join the 1000's of couples who have done it. https://shop.marriageaftergod.com/products/thirty-one-prayers-bundle
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FOR MORE MARRIAGE ENCOURAGEMENT
https://marriageaftergod.com
https://instagram.com/marriageaftergod
SHOP MARRIAGE RESOURCES
https://shop.marriageaftergod.com
FOR WIVES
https://unveiledwife.com
https://facebook.com/unveiledwife
FOR HUSBANDS
https://husbandrevolution.com
https://facebook.com/HusbandRevolution
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Hey, we're Aaron and Jennifer Smith with Marriage After God.
Helping you cultivate an extraordinary marriage.
And today, we're gonna talk about how a heart o…
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Oct 31, 2018
Making Time Count In Your Marriage
Everyone has the same amount of time in a day, yet we all manage our time differently and many of us may have lost a healthy perspective of and use of our time. In this episode, we discuss time and how if we value our time correctly then we can be more effective for the ministry God has for our marriages. We talk about how much time we have or how little we actually have. How do we perceive the value of our time? How can we see our time differently, how can we use it more effectively? Do we need to slow down? and most importantly we must ask ourselves what God's word says about time.
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Take our 31-day marriage prayer challenge today and join the 1000's of couples who have done it. https://shop.marriageaftergod.com/products/thirty-one-prayers-bundle
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FOR MORE MARRIAGE ENCOURAGEMENT
https://marriageaftergod.com
https://instagram.com/marriageaftergod
SHOP MARRIAGE RESOURCES
https://shop.marriageaftergod.com
FOR WIVES
https://unveiledwife.com
https://facebook.com/unveiledwife…
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Oct 24, 2018
We Ask Each Other Random Questions About Finances & Money
We are all on a journey with money and the Bible talks a lot about money so because of this It is very important for us as Marriages after God to be able and willing to discuss money with each other and how to manage money in marriage. In this episode, Jennifer and I ask each other questions about money and we give candid on the spot answers to those questions. We discuss our individual view and relationship with money. We talk about how we were raised with money and what we were taught about it. And we share our fears that surround money.
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Take our 31-day marriage prayer challenge today and join the 1000's of couples who have done it. https://shop.marriageaftergod.com/products/thirty-one-prayers-bundle
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FOR MORE MARRIAGE ENCOURAGEMENT
https://marriageaftergod.com
https://instagram.com/marriageaftergod
SHOP MARRIAGE RESOURCES
https://shop.marriageaftergod.com
FOR WIVES
https://unveiledwife.com
https://facebook.com/unveiledwife
FOR HUSBANDS
https://husbandrevolution.com…
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Oct 17, 2018
Let's Talk About Social Media And Marriage
We haven't figured out how to perfectly navigate social media in our marriage and family which is why we wanted to talk about this subject today. We talk about a few strategies to build healthy habits with social media in our home and we will talk about areas that we struggle with social media. We think it is time to start evaluating how social media is affecting our families and daily lives. There is a lot of good that can come from social media but there is a lot of unhealthy things as well. Aaron gets personal and shares his own addiction to social media we share stories of things our kids have told us because of us being on our phones in front of them and we both share how we can be better at how we engage with it on a daily basis.
“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are helpful. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything." 1 Corinthians 6:12
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Oct 10, 2018
7 Traits of a Spiritual Leader
Spiritual leadership or spiritual headship in the home comes from the idea that God has designed marriage to operate in a certain order. His design when walked in actually comes with blessing and security. In this episode, we discuss what some of the traits of a spiritual leader are and what it can look like when they are walked in.
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Take our 31-day marriage prayer challenge today and join the 1000's of couples who have done it. https://shop.marriageaftergod.com/products/thirty-one-prayers-bundle
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FOR MORE MARRIAGE ENCOURAGEMENT
https://marriageaftergod.com
https://instagram.com/marriageaftergod
SHOP MARRIAGE RESOURCES
https://shop.marriageaftergod.com
FOR WIVES
https://unveiledwife.com
https://facebook.com/unveiledwife
FOR HUSBANDS
https://husbandrevolution.com
https://facebook.com/HusbandRevolution
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Oct 3, 2018
Our Favorite Parenting & Marriage Resources - Part 2
Parenting resources have played an invaluable role in us navigate and grow into our role as Godly parents. There are a handful of parenting advice books and websites that transformed the way we saw parenting and discipling our children, we thought we would share them with you! In this episode, we share books, blogs, social media accounts to follow, and some insight into the power of our roles as mother and father. We also share a look at the some of the parenting resources we have created to inspire your prayer life for your kids.
Here are all the links from our Favorite parenting books and resources we talked about in this episode.
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Little Golden Books
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Rod & Staff Bible Stories - https://www.milestonebooks.com/item/1-10…
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Sep 26, 2018
Our Favorite Parenting & Marriage Resources - Part 1
Marriages resources played an invaluable role in helping our marriage grow into what it is today. There are a handful of marriage books and websites that transformed the way we saw our marriage, our sex life, our way of communicating and so much more than we thought we would share them with you! Some of these resources helped us in our struggles with sexual intimacy, porn addiction, and parenting. In this episode, we share books, blogs, social media accounts to follow, and some insight into the power of real-life relationships. We also share a look at the some of the marriage resources we have created to inspire and lift up your marriage. It is crucial for the health of your marriage that you invest in your relationship by digging into resources that give you a fresh perspective that will challenge you to grow in the role that God has given you!
Here are all the links from the helpful marriage books and resources we talked about in this episode.
Books
ESV BIBLE
Aaron's Bible
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