Dr. Marcus Warner and Reverend Chris Coursey encourage couples to cultivate joy in their marriage. They encourage couples to sow seeds of joy for a more satisfying marriage.

Do differences in your marriage or stepfamily challenges ever make you feel disconnected or create a drift in your relationship? Neil and Sharol Josephson speak with Ron Deal and offer valuable tips on managing and overcoming a drift in marriage.

There's a big difference between telling the truth and telling the whole truth. Bob Lepine explains why dishonest, and even partial truth, can plant seeds of distrust and put a marriage on shaky ground.

Bob Lepine talks about 1 Corinthians 13, focusing on the virtue of kindness. Bob says practicing kindness in a marriage is the single greatest predictor of marital happiness and stability.

Bob Lepine talks about what it means to be patient, or long-suffering, especially if your spouse isn't as loving, or helpful or attentive as you hoped. Lepine reminds us that most of us got married for oneness.

Most people think of love as a strong feeling, but according to Bob Lepine, that is far from how the Scriptures define love. Lepine tells what he has learned about love over 41 years with his wife, Mary Ann.

Matt and Lisa Jacobson talk about the power of words in marriage. Lisa remembers a time when she complimented Matt, only to learn how ugly he felt as a child growing up.

Husband and wife team Matt and Lisa Jacobson talk about the importance of affirming your spouse. Dave and Ann Wilson tell how a positive shift in outlook changed their marriage for the better.

Jeff and Sarah Walton have learned to make God's Word central to their daily lives. Together they share how God is using their trials to build up and comfort others in the body of Christ.

After dating only five months, and finding out they were expecting, Tim and Kathy Bush got married. They tell how they went from being self-focused to experiencing a Christ-focused marriage.

Dave Harvey believes that when young adults leave home, it reveals what a couple has built throughout their marriage. Harvey reminds couples to get help if needed and stir up the fires that once were flames.

When your spouse is in a season of suffering, how do you help them? Dave Harvey reminds us that how we respond to suffering says a lot about our understanding of marriage.

Dave Harvey talks about the circles of influence that make up each one of us. Everyone has a context, and once a husband or wife understands what their spouse's context is, they'll love and understand each other better.

God can raise dead things-Clint and Penny Bragg can vouch for that. Eleven years after their divorce, God brought them back together. The Braggs tell what God had to do in each of them to get to the point of reconciliation.

Clint and Penny Bragg talk about the baggage they should have discussed before getting married and their miraculous remarriage after 11 long years.

Marvin and Linda Rooks talk honestly about their three-year separation and fondly remember the circumstances that finally brought them together again.

Marvin and Linda Rooks marriage was adrift on a slow boat to isolation. The Rookses talk about the Easter Sunday that changed everything for them, and the marital separation that had each of them seeking answers.

Marvin and Linda Rooks' first six years of marriage were heaven then the children arrived, and conflict was swept under the rug. The Rooks tell how isolation began to take its toll.

Even if couples make it past the selfish first stage and into stage two, "I'm here to serve my spouse," Bob Lepine says there's a third and even more profound stage of marital union.

According to Bob Lepine, marriages often begin with the misguided idea that "She's here to complete me." Bob Lepine describes what he calls the "Three Phases of Marriage."

Chip Ingram coaches husbands on how to live out Ephesians 5 in their marriages. Husbands, he explains, need to own the responsibility to care for and nurture their wives.

Chip Ingram explains the difference between a marriage covenant and a marriage contract. Ingram reminds us that conflicts and challenges are normal in any marriage, but they don't have to break up the union.

Chip Ingram has a great marriage now, but it wasn't always this way. Ingram, who has been married to Theresa since 1978, reflects on the hardships they faced as newlyweds.