This Christmas episode wraps up another year of the Marriage Matters Podcast. In it, Ken and Shar remind every Christian couple how desperately we all need the ongoing ministry of the Holy Spirit in our marriages. It's not just about tools, knowledge or good advice. Without hearts yielded to the convicting, guiding work of the Spirit, not much will ever change, advance or mature!

In this episode Ken and Shar explore the fall of man in Genesis 3, and how that fall has wrecked havoc on marriage and family since that day. Many of the struggles we experience in our marriages today find their genesis right here in these verses.

This episode launches a fun, new series tracking the marriages of the Book of Genesis. After the fall of humankind, God's design for marriage became more and more broken as sin continued to dominate the human landscape. You'll be amazed at what we can learn from the fumbles and failures of our forefathers!

For many couples, making big decisions for the marriage and the family can be perilous! They can't seem to get on the same page without someone feeling "steamrolled" or unheard. What can follow is a breach in the unity and closeness of the marriage. In this episode Ken and Shar encourage couples how they can make big decisions and preserve the precious unity that truly puts Jesus on display!

"Grace"...what is it and how does it operate between husbands and wives? In this episode Ken and Shar reveal how critical it is that "grace" exists as the fountainhead of any Jesus-glorifying marriage union. If God is the God of all grace, how can we possibly put Him on display for the world to see if we fail to operate in grace toward our spouse? Impossible!

In this follow-up to our last episode on "The Power of Sacrifice", Ken and Shar interview another couple in whom they see a marriage of mutual, loving sacrifice for one another. Meet Jesse and Micah Kobayashi. Micah is Ken and Shar's daughter and Jesse their beloved son-in-law. What an encouraging interaction between these two powerful couples!

There's nothing more counter intuitive to mankind's fallen nature than to sacrifice for another. We're just not good at sacrificial love! The power of sacrificial love between husband and wife is this; it puts Jesus on full display for the world to see! At its core, the love of Jesus is sacrificial; so then should our love be for husband and wife.

Continuing their series on "Becoming a Power Couple" in this episode Ken and Shar intimately discuss the beautiful attribute of a "Thankful and Grateful Heart". Listen in and you'll agree, being a grateful person goes a long way in any marriage!