Everyone wants a good marriage. Few people are building one. In this episode, Daniel and Allison Hartman open up the scriptures and open up their own 28 years together to answer the question most couples are afraid to ask plainly: what does a good marriage actually look like?

They walk through Ephesians 5 the way it was written, starting at verse 21, not 22. They talk about the covenant that obliterates the contract mindset, the couple that prays together daily and has a divorce rate of less than one percent, and why the most dangerous season for a marriage is not the early years but the day the last child leaves home.

Daniel and Allison also take on the lies couples quietly believe: that passion fades, that separate interests are healthy, that the 50 percent divorce rate in the church is just a statistic and not a warning. And they tell the truth about where they came from, because neither of them had a model to follow.

This episode is conviction, not coaching. Scripture, not sentiment. And a picture of marriage so far above what culture is selling that it will either challenge you deeply or confirm what you have been quietly building all along.

Proverbs 5. Ephesians 5. 1 Corinthians 7. All NKJV.

Referenced in this episode: Gulf Coast Family Camp at GulfCoastFamilyCamp.com