Answers to Your Questions

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About This Episode We asked our community on Instagram for questions and received so many great ones, so in this episode we answer ten of them. Some are personal and some are spiritual: what has challenged us most in doing ministry together, when to change your last name, how to handle controlling in-laws, and how to keep your faith and a hopeful mindset in hard times. We also talk about the transition to parenthood, resources that helped Aaron find healing from pornography, the hardest lessons we have learned, and how we juggle all the demands of life. It's easy to praise God when life is great; this episode is a reminder to keep praising Him when it isn't. It was also our sign-off for the year, and we wished you a Merry Christmas.

About Aaron & Jennifer Smith Aaron and Jennifer Smith are the founders of Marriage After God and authors of Husband After God, Wife After God, and Marriage After God. Married since 2007 and raising six children in Bend, Oregon, they started Husband Revolution and Unveiled Wife to share what God was teaching them, not from a place of having it figured out, but as fellow travelers pointing couples back to Jesus.

In This Episode Doing ministry together — how communication and our differences challenge us most. Changing your last name — why taking your husband's name can honor him and your oneness. Controlling in-laws — communicating respectfully with your spouse and setting clear boundaries. Faith in hard times — what faith is (Hebrews 11:1) and keeping self-control in our emotions. Becoming parents — the hardest part of the transition to parenthood. Freedom from pornography — Wired for Intimacy by William Struthers and Treating Pornography Addiction by Dr. Kevin Skinner. Hardest lessons — dying to self and taking up our cross. A first anniversary — keeping it simple with dinner and reflection. Juggling it all — recognizing our limits, depending on God, and living in seasons.

Scripture Referenced James 1:2 Hebrews 11:1

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