Dear Friends,

 We all want to be cherished! Who wouldn't? But do you know how to cherish your spouse deeply?  

Please check out this series featuring pastor and best-selling author Gary Thomas talking with Focus on the Family. Each episode includes practical, everyday steps that husbands and wives can take to treasure and honor one another.

Episode 1: What is Cherishing?
Episode 2: A Husband Cherishing His Wife
Episode 3: A Wife Cherishing Her Husband
Episode 4: The Absence of Cherishing
Episode 5: Giving Couples Hope

Take the free marriage assessment to identify the key areas where you could use improvement and the tools that will help you with that. We want your marriage to be thriving and healthy, and hope this assessment will strengthen your marriage!

Get your copy of the companion book for this series – Cherish: The One Word That Changes Everything for Your Marriage, by Gary Thomas. 

I encourage you to contact  Pastor Christian or Pastor John if you have questions or need additional marriage support or counsel.
May God bless you and your marriage!

Dear Friends,

Marriage is not easy sometimes. That’s true for all of us, right?

In a troubled marriage, it sometimes feels like there are only two options — stay and be miserable, or get out and seek happiness elsewhere. That’s a myth, says best-selling author and marriage counselor Dr. Gary Chapman. In this series, Dr. Chapman and Focus on the Family president Jim Daly discuss a third and better option. With the help of God, you can choose to be a positive influence in your marriage and create conditions in which your spouse can change his or her behavior. 

Click below to learn more from Dr. Chapman, author of The 5 Love Languages, on how to love your spouse when you feel like walking away.

In each session, you’ll get Dr. Chapman’s expert relationship insights about dealing with heavy-duty issues in marriage and how your emotional needs dictate how you act.

He teaches you how to recognize and reject marriage myths, take responsibility for your own thoughts and feelings and make choices that can have a positive impact on your spouse.
If your spouse is controlling, absent, abusive, depressed, unfaithful, or grappling with addiction, Dr. Chapman will speak to your situation in this series.

Episode 1: Living in Reality
Episode 2: How Our Emotional Needs Drive Behavior
Episode 3: The Depressed Spouse
Episode 4: The Controlling Spouse
Episode 5: The Physically Abusive Spouse
Episode 6: The Unfaithful Spouse

We hope you found some nuggets of help thru this series.

Visit Focus on the Family Video Series to browse their full collection of free video series for couples and parents. 

Or click on the following links for additional marriage video series.
Cherish Your Spouse
Fight Your Way to a Better Marriage
From Anger to Affection
Discovering God's Freedom from Pornography

I encourage you to contact  Pastor Christian or Pastor John if you have questions or need additional marriage support or counsel.
May God bless you and your marriage!