Relationships

In this seven-day plan, we'll break down Ephesians 5:21–33, discover the foundational cornerstone of a healthy marriage, and explore the roles of husbands and wives within the covenant of marriage.

Foundations of Marriage

The children have moved out and the place seems a little too quiet. Now what? I hope you and your wife have been praying and planning for this day for some time and it has not caught you off guard. Join us as we start our own journey as well.

UNCOMMEN: Empty Nest

Having a baby changes everything. It’s like this little life becomes a new center of gravity, pulling the rest of your world into its orbit. It’s hard to know how to get ready for such an unknown like having a newborn. Prepare practically and spiritually to deeply enjoy and thrive in one the hardest and most beautiful seasons of your life.

A Parent’s Guide to a New Baby:  Suffering and Self-Care

After the pain of sexual sin, building trust is a long, difficult process. But with the help of a counselor, lots of work, and God’s grace, you can find restoration. This 7-day reading plan will outline some steps to take in this journey.

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Building Trust After Infidelity

It will help the reader to discover biblical principles on why God created marriage.



The Wedding Knot - For What?

What makes marriage work? These videos will help you discover God's blueprint for marriage in Ephesians chapter 5.

What Makes Marriage Work? Video Devotions From Your Time Of Grace

Married couples know marriage is a complex relationship marked by highs and lows, strengths and weaknesses. When circumstances expose the weak spots, any couple might wonder if they have what it takes to pull through. In the week ahead, Dave Harvey, pastor and husband of thirty-five years, offers hope insights into this surprising paradox: In a successful marriage God doesn’t demand our strength, but our reliance on His. 

I Still Do By Dave Harvey

Parenting is a difficult task. Yet, it is the very first commandment God gave Adam and Eve when He created them: to be fruitful and multiply. As Christian parents, we are supposed to raise our children to honor the Lord. While it is not easy, there are tools that God gave us to do it right. This devotional will equip you with the knowledge necessary to be a godly parent. 

How to Be a Good Christian Parent

In the Old Testament, God describes himself as a jealous God. In other places in the Scriptures, human jealousy nearly always appears sinful. Can jealousy ever be a good thing for people to have? Can a husband or wife have good and right jealousy for their spouse?

How to Deal With Jealousy in a Christian Marriage 

Practicing God’s command to honor your husband is a powerful way to build a happier, healthier marriage. Join author Marilynn Chadwick for this eight-day study to discover how honoring your husband can strengthen your marriage, help you dream big together, and create a culture of honor in your home.

God’s Advice For Wives 

Marriage

Everyone dreams of a love that lasts but lasting relationships don’t just happen. They are built with the right foundation, effort, and grace. This 3-day plan will help you understand the biblical principles and personal growth needed to build strong, godly relationships that lead to lasting love and healthy marriages. You’ll discover how to invite God into your relationships, communicate effectively, and grow in love that mirrors Christ’s. Whether single, dating, or married, this plan will help you build not just a connection, but a covenant that stands the test of time.

Building Love That Lasts

Waiting for love doesn’t mean waiting to grow. In this 5-day plan, discover how to pray with purpose and faith as you prepare your heart — and your future marriage — for God’s perfect timing. Learn to intercede for your future husband, deepen your relationship with God, and turn your waiting season into one of hope, healing, and preparation.

Dear Future Husband: Trusting God With Your Love Story

God desires us to live in sexual consecration. Our destinies are inextricably tied to this.

Sexual Purity and Destiny

Valentine’s Day often highlights emotional love, but the Bible reveals a deeper, stable, and transforming love. This 5-day reading plan invites you to discover love according to God’s heart—a love that is chosen, built, and rooted in truth. Open to everyone, regardless of relationship status, it explores the love that comes from God, heals, forgives, and reflects Christ. Through Scripture, practical reflections, and prayer, this plan helps align your heart with the very source of love and live out healthy, lasting relationships.

Valentine's Day: Loving as God Loves - Jean-Luc Trachsel

Marital anxiety is often the result of fear shaped by experiences, stories, observations, disappointments, and unanswered questions. Many singles desire marriage but are terrified of what it might cost or expose within them.
This 7-day devotional is designed to confront the fears surrounding marriage with God’s truth: the Scriptures. Each day addresses a specific fear that keeps many singles stuck in avoidance, helping you identify its root, dismantle its power, and replace it with trust in God.
This plan invites you to bring your fears and release them to God, in preparation for the “good land” He has promised.


Fear Not: Confronting the Real Fears About Marriage

Singleness is truly a gift—a season not to waste, but to lean into with intention and faith. This is a time to lock in with God, grow in wisdom, and discover who you are without distraction. It’s not just powerful; it’s purposeful. And I don’t believe it’s an accident that you’re here. Something in you is craving a fresh perspective, a new way to view this season of your life. God has something new, something life-giving, waiting for you. This is your moment to lean in, trust Him deeply, and embrace the journey ahead with confidence and expectancy.

Single, Secure, & Thriving

Tired of dating from a place of need? Stop the cycle of heartbreak by getting your heart right first.

This 21-day spiritual boot camp, led by Pastor Simon Richardson III and Olaolu Ogunyemi (U.S. Marine, Parent-Child-Connect), moves you from neediness to wholeness.

You will master self-leadership, heal past wounds, and set clear boundaries before commitment. 

Each day includes a devotional, a Daily Detox Action, Reflection Questions, and a Prayer.

Stop waiting for a partner to complete you. Start becoming whole.

BEFORE YOU CUFF: The 21-Day Pre-Relationship Detox

Snare Marriage: Discerning Between God’s Covenant and the Enemy’s Trap by Patrick Omukhango is a 7-day devotional designed to help believers recognize the difference between God-ordained relationships and subtle relational snares. Through powerful biblical examples, this plan exposes how love, emotion, pressure, and compromise can quietly derail purpose. Whether single, dating, married, or recovering from relational pain, this devotional invites you into deeper discernment, healing, and alignment with God’s covenant design—so relationships become instruments of destiny, not traps that hinder obedience.

Snare Marriage: Discerning Between God's Covenant and the Enemy's Trap by Patrick Omukhango 

This 7-day plan introduces the next step in understanding the five love languages: learning to speak the unique “dialect” that matters most to the person in front of you. Through Scripture and practical reflection, you’ll discover why good intentions sometimes fall flat and how empathy brings every love language to life. These daily insights will help you love more clearly, more personally, and more like Jesus.

The Love Language That Matters Most

Kingdom Marriages by Minister Kia Durham is for couples who are dating, courting, or newly married and desire a relationship that reflects God’s heart. Each day offers practical guidance and honest reflection to help you communicate with grace, pursue unity, and strengthen your spiritual foundation. Invite Jesus into every step of your union and build habits that honor God and each other for a lifelong Kingdom marriage rooted in Christ.

Kingdom Marriages: A 5-Day Plan to Build a Christ-Centered Relationship

Dating

This reading plan is based upon Cindy Beall's book, Healing Your Marriage When Trust Is Broken. Learn how to find hope and healing for your wounded marriage as you navigate the waters of betrayal. Cindy, and her husband, Chris, have walked out their healing by trusting in God's mighty power and encourage you to join them on this healing journey.

Healing Your Marriage When Trust Is Broken

During divorce and other extremely difficult times, there comes a moment when you will wonder if you will ever make it. Over the next 7 days, you will be able to connect with God through prayers, advice, and action plans. Learn to not just survive, but survive and thrive.

Divorce To Healing: Survive And Thrive

The heartbreak, the lost love, the grief and the shame that comes with unwanted divorce doesn’t have to stay forever. You don’t need to go through this alone. In this study, we’ll learn how we can lean heavily on God’s strength despite life’s most troubling events.

UNCOMMEN: Surviving Divorce

What you know is what gets you through. If you don’t know the right things when the rouge winds and tsunamis of life come, you’re going to fall over.  But if our lives are built on the rock solid, bedrock truth of the Bible, we know some unchanging truths.

How To Get Through What You're Going Through

This 15 day reading plan offers biblical insight for personal growth and wholeness from doctors Henry Cloud and John Townsend—bestselling authors of How People Grow and the Boundaries series. The devotions are perfect for those entering new phases of life or dealing with difficult relationships. Readings provide help in translating God’s Word into a plan for staying spiritually healthy.

Henry Cloud & John Townsend - Life Journey

Join Pastor Rick for this series of broadcasts on “Life’s Healing Choices” as he walks through the Beatitudes from Matthew 5, which are the eight steps to physical, emotional, social, financial, and personal health.

Life's Healing Choices

We must prioritize our marriage if we plan to make it “until death do us part!” After 34 years of marriage, having 4 kids in 5 years, and enduring hardships and teenage rebellion, Roxanne shares her top marriage nuggets to help you establish the priority of a lifelong love.

Marriage Matters

There are seasons where most stepparents feel that they do most of the giving and get very little in return. Stepparenting is hard. A relationship plagued by love conflicts and a child's lower motivation toward love and bonding are usually at the roots of this. For these seven days, learn to get past these stepparenting challenges and get on the road to building love together.

7 Day Devotional for the Stepparent 

Whether you’re single or divorced, the idea of dating can be overwhelming at times.  It’s easy for your emotions to get overwhelmed with the feelings that come with past failed relationships.  The heartache, tears, disappointment and hurt can leave you never wanting to date again.  This reading plan will guide you on a journey that will introduce you to dating and making intentional decisions for your next relationship.

Kiss Dating Hello

What do we do when our dreams seem out of reach or even shattered? Having overcome abuse and trauma, as well as the heartbreak of a divorce, I have been faced with this question again and again. Whether you’re experiencing the devastation of tragedy or loss, or the frustration of a long season of waiting, the God-dream for your life is still alive! Friend, it’s time to dream again.

Dreams Redeemed

Divorce

“Love can’t be earned, it can only be given. And it can only be exchanged by people who are completely true with each other,” says Donald Miller. In this 7-day reading plan based on the book Scary Close, Don challenges our assumptions about what makes for good relationships and shares reflections from his own journey to “drop the act” and find true intimacy. 

Scary Close-Reflections For Finding True Intimacy

Society has it’s own definition of what it means to love and what true love is. However, that definition and God’s definition are very different. This 7-day devotional is designed to take you on a journey through God’s love in both the Old and New Testaments. Each day, a definition of God’s love will be explained through scripture and then defined in everyday language.  Let's get started! Go to afterthemusicstops.org for the full length version of this plan. 



What is Love? God's View On Love And Relationships

Parenting Teens/Tweens

Marriage is a wonderful blessing from God, and in his Word he gives husbands and wives the tools that they need to learn to love and respect each other.

Home Sweet Home: Devotions from Time of Grace

Marriage is a blessing from God, but because we are flawed individuals, it can be hard at times. This reading plan offers words from God’s Word about common marital issues.