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Overcoming mom anger with biblical truth and practical tools is the focus of this Marriage After God episode with Elizabeth Andreyevskiy, Christian life coach, mother of four, and founder of Emotionally Healthy Legacy. Elizabeth shares that she didn't recognize her anger until her third child, when she found herself spanking her kids in rage. Counseling helped her stop trying to fix her toddler and start working on her own regulation. She walks through the tools that changed her home: a morning routine of Scripture, journaling, movement, and phone boundaries to raise her capacity; taking thoughts captive; and a vision writing...

Marriage as your first ministry is the heart of this Marriage After God conversation with Austin J. Holt, marriage coach and co-founder of The Conscious Christian Marriage. Austin shares how he and his wife Rachel went from running a top Kansas City wedding photography business to coaching couples, partly fueled by processing Rachel's parents' divorce. He explains why pastors and volunteers can over-serve at church while being absent at home, and makes the case for a family-focused sabbatical. Austin unpacks "active appreciation," the idea that what and who we appreciate appreciates in value, along with making it easy for your...

Praying for your husband instead of trying to change him is the heart of this Marriage After God conversation with Amanda Hayhurst, seminary graduate and author of Pray for Him. Amanda shares how, after infidelity early in her marriage, when her husband Marcus had biblical grounds to leave, a sermon on restoring marriages and a godly community kept them together. She traces the father wounds and lies that fueled her neediness, and how her son Reese's leukemia diagnosis forced her to stop numbing with wine and feel her emotions before God. Amanda explains why trying to be the Holy Spirit...

Healing through grief and learning to love wholeheartedly are at the center of this Marriage After God conversation with Caleb and Stefanie Rouse, authors of Wholehearted Love. The Rouses share how they built an online relationship ministry after Stefanie earned her MFT at Fuller and Caleb left teaching, and how God stretched their obedience muscle by leading them to turn down lucrative brand deals and quit TikTok. They open up about the day an ultrasound revealed twins and the loss of both babies, Asher and Shiloh, in the same moment, and how they chose to worship the next day. Written...

Understanding God's will and making confident decisions is the focus of this Marriage After God conversation with Costi Hinn, pastor, author of Walking in God's Will, and founder of For the Gospel. Costi, the nephew of Benny Hinn, shares how reading Scripture brought him out of the prosperity gospel, a journey his wife Christine sparked, and how God stripped away his old identity in the brutal first years of marriage. He distinguishes God's sovereign will, the things we will never know, from His revealed will of command, like sexual purity, sanctification, love, and gratitude. Costi walks through his seven P's...

Spiritual warfare in marriage is the focus of this Marriage After God conversation with Tilly Dillehay, pastor's wife and author of My Dear Hemlock and Seeing Green. Tilly shares how she was raised Christian, walked away from the faith in college, and was converted at 22 through two weeks of counseling at a small Tennessee church. Modeled on C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters, My Dear Hemlock follows a female patient through common marriage temptations: resentment over lost courtesies, believing she married down, phones that lift her out of the road of time, and withholding gratitude. Tilly and Aaron talk about...

Overcoming mom fatigue and reclaiming joy in motherhood is the focus of this Marriage After God conversation with Hannah Keeley, mother of seven, mom coach, and author of Mom Fog: 8 Steps to Overcoming Mom Fatigue Syndrome. Hannah shares the breakdown she had as an overwhelmed young mom, sobbing in a pile of laundry, when God simply told her to get up and fold it. She explains the science of the changed mom brain, including a roughly 4% loss of gray matter after birth, and how to interrupt negative self-talk with a physical pattern-break, like the whistle she wore, then...

New Thought deception and biblical discernment are the focus of this Marriage After God conversation with Melissa Dougherty, Christian apologist and author of Happy Lies. Melissa shares how she fell for metaphysical "Christianity on steroids," including the law of attraction, manifestation, and Christ-consciousness, until two Jehovah's Witnesses at her door and the Gospel of John pushed her to test whether Scripture was trustworthy. She explains how New Thought redefines words like love, sells pride with the language of humility, and minimizes Christ while elevating the self as divine. Melissa also gives four questions for testing any teaching: Is it new?...

Protecting children from pornography and training them for digital integrity is the focus of this Marriage After God conversation with John-Michael Bout, executive director of Into the Light Ministries and father of three. John-Michael shares how he was exposed to pornography at age eight and hid an addiction until 18, when older Christian men helped him find freedom. He explains why parents can't take a head-in-the-sand approach when the porn industry actively targets children, even through misspelled searches like "Elmo," and why aiming at a child's heart matters more than managing behavior. They discuss age-appropriate conversations, God's good design for...

Building a safe marriage, finding authentic community, and pursuing mentorship are the focus of this Marriage After God conversation with Mike and Holly Worley, founders of Spark Discipleship. High school sweethearts married 16 years, the Worleys share three mistakes from their early marriage: not committing to a local church, lacking authentic community, and having no older mentors. Holly opens up about disclosing childhood abuse to Mike and how that trauma intensified after marriage, requiring years of counseling, while Mike learned he couldn't be Mr. Fix-it and had to bring her to Jesus instead. They explain why mentorship has to be...