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Pornography is all too common, even among believers. In this episode of the Marriage After God podcast, Aaron Smith shares openly how he has walked in freedom from pornography for more than six years and how you can too. He explains that what we believe drives how we act: as long as he believed he was a slave to porn he stayed enslaved, but believing he was already free in Christ helped him see sin as a choice he could refuse. Jennifer shares the insecurity, anger, and broken trust it caused, and how honest, quick confession rebuilt trust faster than...

Money is one of the most fought-over, stressed-about issues in marriage, especially when inflation and the cost of living keep climbing. In this episode of the Marriage After God podcast, Aaron and Jennifer Smith talk about what the Bible says about money and how couples can stay at peace and in harmony when finances feel heavy. They walk through anchor verses like 1 Timothy 6, Matthew 6:24, Romans 13:8, and Mark 4:19, share their own seasons of debt and of living on very little, and explain why they pursue a debt-free lifestyle. They also talk about the power of unity...

Every marriage desires peace: in our homes, in our relationships, and with our children. Ultimately peace comes from Christ, but there is also a peace that comes from a healthy pace of life. In this episode of the Marriage After God podcast, Aaron and Jennifer Smith admit they have slipped into an unsustainable pace and invite you along as they look for a better one. Drawing on Jennifer's rowing and CrossFit coaching about reserving energy, they share six ideas: don't start out full force, make a priority list, include rest, be patient with disruptions, don't compare, and check your expectations....

How do you keep your marriage strong during life transitions? In this episode of the Marriage After God podcast, Aaron and Jennifer Smith return after a year-and-a-half break to share their 10-month season of selling their home, building a new one, and living in more than 30 places, including a six-to-seven-week cross-country road trip. They reframe emotional breakdowns and dropped routines, not as proof of a weak marriage but as a test of its strength, and share what helped: prayer, friends, validating each other with a simple 'yeah, that's hard,' and remembering they chose this path. With wisdom from Ecclesiastes...

How did Jesus fulfill the Passover? As Passover and Easter approach, Aaron and Jennifer Smith walk through Exodus 12 in this Season 5 finale of the Marriage After God podcast and show how each element of the Passover feast points to Christ. The feast is a shadow, but He is the substance. They explore the blood of the lamb on the doorposts and lintel, the unleavened bread and the leaven of sin, the broken and hidden afikomen, the bitter herbs, and the four cups of wine. Then they map Holy Week onto Passover: the lamb selected on Palm Sunday, examined...

Are we living in the last days? With distress and chaos filling the news and social media, many people, Christian and secular, are wondering about the fragile state of our world. In this episode of the Marriage After God podcast, Aaron and Jennifer Smith approach end-times prophecy as a hope-filled topic, starting with the Hebrew word for hope, a cord twisted together under tension. They encourage listeners to test every teacher against Scripture and be wary of anyone setting dates, revisit fulfilled prophecy like Daniel 9's seventy weeks, and look at signs such as Israel becoming a nation in 1948...

Why what we believe matters for every Christian marriage: our beliefs, not just our Bible knowledge, drive every attitude, habit, and choice we make. In this episode, Aaron and Jennifer Smith describe the mind as a battlefield, contrasting Eve in the garden, who added to God's command and believed the serpent's lie, with Jesus, who answered each temptation with Scripture. Aaron shares vulnerably that knowing the Bible's truth about freedom did not break his pornography addiction until he stopped believing he was still in bondage and admitted he was choosing the sin. They explain the difference between knowledge and belief,...

Looking for fun family activity ideas that don't cost much? In this lighthearted, list-driven episode, Aaron and Jennifer Smith brainstorm dozens of concrete ways to have fun as a family: game nights, tent camping and backyard camping, road trips with junk food, projector movies on the ceiling, dance parties, building projects, kid-owned garden boxes, science experiments, a Christmas cardboard-box maze, and Aaron's tape-measure guessing game. They share stories from their own family, encourage you to adapt ideas to your budget and your kids, and explain why simple is often more memorable than expensive and why a little boredom fuels creativity....

How do you build a strong marriage that can withstand the schemes of the enemy? Using the gut renovation of their abandoned fixer-upper home as an extended metaphor, from rain pouring through the torn-off roof to the failed foundation pour they had redone, Aaron and Jennifer Smith share six tips for a stronger, more vibrant marriage: keep it Christ-centered as the only foundation, read the Bible daily, walk in humility, pursue physical, emotional, and spiritual intimacy, communicate well by overlooking offenses, and love and forgive. They point to 1 Corinthians 7 and Proverbs 19:11 and remind couples that this is...

How to comfort your spouse during hard times, and how to receive comfort when it's offered. Every marriage faces trials, and in this episode Aaron and Jennifer Smith get honest about how comforting others has never come naturally to Aaron, who tends to jump to solutions or try to cheer people up too soon. Drawing on 2 Corinthians 1:3-5, they share that we are told to comfort one another, that we can comfort because God has comforted us, and that we need to rise up and go to people rather than wait to be asked. They talk about boundaries that...