The Marriage Matters Courses

Marriage Matters

What’s the secret to a happy marriage?? Surprisingly, it’s not healthy communication. It’s not conflict resolution skills. It’s actually the size of the marriage’s joy gap . Joy Gap/joi gap/ (n.)-1. The length of time between moments of shared joy. When the joy gap gets bigger, problems are more likely to overwhelm you, resentment creeps in, and you start to feel distant and alone in your marriage. When the joy gap is smaller, you regularly feel connected and happy, problems feel manageable, and your marriage becomes a reliable source of joy.

Join us to discover four habits that boost joy and re-train your brain to make joy your default setting.

You’ll learn new skills including how to:

  • return to joy more quickly after disconnection
  • create stronger bonds and elongate times of happiness
  • boost your enjoyment of physical and emotional intimacy

Find out what your marriage looks like after a little work and a whole lot of joy.

The Marriage Course

Sometimes marriage can be hard work. How would you say your marriage is doing?

Introducing “The Marriage Course”, a 7-week study designed to help couples learn practical ways to build a stronger foundation, communicate more effectively and resolve differences well.

Whether you want to intentionally invest in your relationship or are looking to address more specific challenges, the Marriage Course offers essential tools and ideas to help you build a relationship that lasts a lifetime.

Space is limited so register early.

Vertical Marriage

A more vibrant marriage is possible when it’s built on a foundation of active faith.

Join us on this 6-week journey with humor-filled and relatable video sessions, dynamic group discussion, and intentional couple’s connection.

Brought to you by FamilyLife, a leader in biblical marriage content for more than 40 years, Vertical Marriage will help you learn the secret to a healthy marriage – if the vertical relationship with God is put first, the horizontal relationship between spouses will follow.

Each session includes a 25-minute video session full of applicable truth, relatable anecdotes, and laugh out loud humor, expertly paired with discussion prompts and a special Couple’s Connection project designed to be completed onsite – so you can leave the group with NO HOMEWORK!

4 Habits of a Joy-Filled Marriage

What’s the secret to a happy marriage??

Surprisingly, it’s not healthy communication. It’s not conflict resolution skills. It’s actually the size of the marriage’s joy gap .

Joy Gap/joi gap/ (n.)-1. The length of time between moments of shared joy

When the joy gap gets bigger, problems are more likely to overwhelm you, resentment creeps in, and you start to feel distant and alone in your marriage. When the joy gap is smaller, you regularly feel connected and happy, problems feel manageable, and your marriage becomes a reliable source of joy. But how do you ensure that you’re experiencing joy regularly?

Join us to discover four habits that keep joy regular and problems small. We’ll teach you 15-minute exercises that boost joy and re-train your brain to make joy your default setting. You’ll learn new skills including how to:

  • return to joy more quickly after disconnection
  • create stronger bonds and elongate times of happiness
  • boost your enjoyment of physical and emotional intimacy

Find out what your marriage looks like after a little work and a whole lot of joy.

Naked Marriage

Having a “Naked Marriage” is about much more than just nakedness in the bedroom (although that’s part of the fun). It means being naked emotionally and spiritually as well as physically. Join us on this 10-week journey as marriage experts Dave and Ashley Willis show you how to undress all the misconceptions our culture has used to cover God’s original, beautiful design for marriage and rediscover all marriage can be.

Upset the Vows

Upset the Vows is a Course that Tim & Juliet Ross will walk you through to get you some tips, some tools and some resources so that you and your spouse can be closer than you’ve ever been before., Allow them to take you on the journey based on over 24 years and counting of their own marriage so you can live a naked life with your spouse to make it through whatever life may throw at you. Don’t give up, don’t quit and become part of the statistic. You have a 100% successful chance at a great marriage if you don’t quit. This multi-week journey culminates with a fun, mass vow renewal ceremony!

Love Like You Mean It

You’re being lied to about love.

The typical version of this lie? A thrill ride of emotions, brain chemicals, even lust. It means we’re encouraged to settle for a cubic-zirconia version of love when there’s a diamond at stake.

We tend to associate love with “I like the way you make me feel.” But that can also mean, “When I stop feeling this way, I’m out.”

Join FamilyLife Today co-host and renowned author Bob Lepine as he pulls us back from the Top 40, dreamy novels, and rom-coms. Instead, he’ll help you dive into how God defines and displays true love: the love your soul craves.

This 10-week adventure includes a free assessment for both you and your spouse to learn their relationship’s strengths and areas for growth.