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  • Don’t Doubt in the Dark: Raising Kids Who Can Wrestle with Faith

    Don’t Doubt in the Dark: Raising Kids Who Can Wrestle with Faith
    2026/10/20
    Melissa Kruger, who oversees women’s initiatives at The Gospel Coalition, has been married to New Testament scholar Michael Kruger for 29 years and has raised three children who now love God’s Word. In this episode, she joins Aaron Smith to talk about what it really takes to pass faith on to the next generation, and why a Christian home alone isn’t enough. Melissa shares the breakfast-table question that helped her kids trust the Gospels, the simple prayer system her daughter still uses in college, and how to respond when your child voices doubts. For any parent who feels unqualified to lead their family in Scripture, this conversation offers a freeing reminder: aim for patterns, not perfection.
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    52 分
  • Everybody Grieves. Not Everybody Mourns Well with Matthew Efird

    Everybody Grieves. Not Everybody Mourns Well with Matthew Efird
    2026/09/15
    Matthew Efird is a husband, father of four boys, business owner, and author of Even Though We Will, a book written from a dad's perspective on child loss. In 2019, he and his wife Hannah learned their second son, Noah, had trisomy 13, a lethal diagnosis, and in March 2020 they held him for 57 and a half hours before saying goodbye. In this conversation with Aaron, Matthew traces how the ordinary rhythms of faith, mentorship, and community they had built for years became the ground they stood on when the news came, and why everybody grieves, but not everybody mourns well. He shares the question their neonatologist asked that protected their marriage, the family slogan born out of the book of Job, and the two questions he and Hannah learned to ask each other in place of "Are you okay?" Whether you are walking through loss yourself or trying to love someone who is, this episode offers a picture of what it looks like to trust God when it hurts.
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    1 時間 6 分
  • Grace-Based vs. Performance-Based Marriage with Brad Rhoads

    Grace-Based vs. Performance-Based Marriage with Brad Rhoads
    2026/09/01
    What is a grace-based marriage, and how do you stop keeping score with your spouse? Brad Rhoads, pastor, founder of the Grace Marriage ministry, and author of The Grace Marriage (Moody Publishers), spent the first year of his marriage convinced his wife's unhappiness was her problem, until two men in his church told him he was succeeding at the things that mattered least and failing at the things that mattered most. In this conversation, Aaron and Brad discuss the difference between a performance-based marriage, where love is given and withdrawn based on behavior, and a grace-based marriage built on the gospel. They cover why the church has largely abandoned the space between premarital counseling and marital crisis, how resting in God's grace changes the way you love your spouse, and what it looks like when a couple's marriage is so genuinely fun that younger couples come asking for counsel.
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    50 分
  • How Your Marriage Affects Your Children with Jennifer Pepito

    How Your Marriage Affects Your Children with Jennifer Pepito
    2026/08/25
    How your marriage affects your children: Jennifer Pepito, author of The Inspired Homeschool and host of the Restoration Home Podcast, has been married 36 years and homeschooled seven children for 30 years, but a clarifying moment came when her grown daughter told her what actually hurt growing up. It wasn't the hard circumstances. It was the conflict between her parents. In this conversation, Jennifer and Aaron walk through what chronic complaining does to a husband, how unresolved fear and disconnection create an atmosphere children absorb, and what it looks like to cultivate a joy-filled, thankful home in genuinely difficult seasons. They also make the case for homeschooling: why the public school standard was never the right measuring stick, and why parents who feel unqualified are closer to ready than they think. For any couple that wants to build something better inside their home, this episode is a good place to start.
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    48 分
  • Feeling Disconnected in Marriage: It's Not Communication with Genee Francis

    Feeling Disconnected in Marriage: It's Not Communication with Genee Francis
    2026/08/11
    Feeling disconnected from your spouse? Dr. Genee Francis, a licensed therapist and Assistant Director of Content and Programming for WinShape Marriage, has a reframe for every couple who says they can't communicate: it's not a communication problem. It's an intimacy problem, spiritual, emotional, and recreational. Married 18 years with two boys, Genee shares how she and her husband Rashad walked through his father's terminal illness, a two-year estate battle, and her unexpected hip replacement. In this conversation, Genee and Aaron talk through the prayer rhythm that gave her a window into her husband's grief when words failed him, why so many couples feel alone even inside a church, why naming disconnection out loud is the first step, and what it takes to build the kind of community that sustains a marriage through hard seasons. If you've ever felt disconnected and didn't know what to call it, this one is for you.
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    50 分
  • A Biblical View of Children, Motherhood, and the Home with Emma Waters

    A Biblical View of Children, Motherhood, and the Home with Emma Waters
    2026/08/04
    A biblical view of children, motherhood, and the home. Emma Waters, a policy analyst for the Heritage Foundation and author of Lead Like Jael: Seven Timeless Principles for Today's Women of Faith, joins Aaron to share how one conversation about kids revealed a deep fear of becoming a mother, so deep she broke up with the man she loved. A mentor's challenge sent her into Scripture: either you're right that children will ruin your life, or the Bible is right that they are a blessing. Emma and Aaron talk about why the trad wife movement and girl boss feminism are more alike than they seem, how Jael's tent peg shows that faithfulness in the mundane equips us for extraordinary moments, why the enemy's first attack happened in the home, what the Hebrew phrase ezer kenegdo reveals about a wife as her husband's battlemate, and how to stop treating your home like a waiting room for your real life.
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    55 分
  • How to Have a Marriage After God | Marriage Devotional Week 30

    How to Have a Marriage After God | Marriage Devotional Week 30
    2026/07/29
    What does it actually mean to have a marriage after God? In the finale of our 30-week marriage devotional series, Aaron and Jennifer Smith share the pivotal moment early in their marriage when, sitting in church feeling hopeless, God brought Aaron to Jesus' prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane, "not as I will, but as you will," and asked him whether he could lay down his will for his bride the way Christ did for His. That surrender didn't fix everything overnight, but it changed the posture of their hearts and became the foundation of Unveiled Wife, Husband Revolution, and Marriage After God. They unpack why transformation starts with the individual rather than the marriage, how transparency and godly community dissolve the power of hidden struggles, what a marriage after God actually looks like (not perfect, but imitable), and this week's call to action: write a love letter to your spouse.
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    36 分
  • Navigating Media as a Christian Family with Dan and Peggy Rupple

    Navigating Media as a Christian Family with Dan and Peggy Rupple
    2026/07/28
    Christian marriage in Hollywood: Dan and Peggy Rupple have been married 48 years while working inside the entertainment industry, and Aaron asks them how. Dan's sketch comedy group was being considered for the original Saturday Night Live cast when one night alone with the Beatitudes led to his salvation and the birth of Christian comedy. Peggy has battled non-Hodgkin's lymphoma six times over 35 years. Today Dan is CEO of Master Media International, and his new book, Glimpses: Viewing the Media Through the Lens of Faith, is available at mastermedia.com. They talk about why Hollywood is in crisis, what the top 25 box office films have in common, what it means to be a Daniel at work, how to navigate movies, phones, and AI with your kids, and the non-negotiables that protected their marriage, including turning down a $300,000 job to coach Little League.
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    1 時間 2 分