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

This 3-day devotional invites you to rediscover biblical love from a practical, motivating, and deeply spiritual perspective. Through well-known passages about love, you will find inspiration to heal, grow, and love more authentically—beginning with the love God has for you.

Love That Transforms

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

The first and last marriages in the Bible point us to the gospel-focused spiritual profile and purpose of marriage, and the power we have in Christ to make our marriages successful.

A Gospel View of 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

Few areas of life bring as much joy or confusion as dating. This plan helps you navigate relationships with wisdom, boundaries, and God-centered guidance. Each day, explore Scripture, reflect on your heart, and gain practical tools to discern readiness, communicate with love, and build relationships that honor God. Perfect for singles, mentors, or anyone seeking to understand God’s design for love.

Guard Your Heart: A Biblical Guide to Dating

Many relationship struggles do not begin in marriage; they begin long before, in unhealed emotional wounds. This 3-day plan is for singles, engaged couples, and anyone preparing for healthy relationships. You will learn how emotional wounds form, how they affect relationships, and how God brings healing. This plan will help you recognise hidden pain, pursue restoration, and step into relationships with wholeness, wisdom, and hope.

Healing Before Marriage 

Lasting marriages are not sustained by feelings alone, but by intentional choices made over time. In this 7-Day devotional, Building a Love That Lasts, Barnie & Grace Achoki guide couples through practical habits that strengthen connection and deepen trust in everyday married life. Each day invites couples to read together, engage in honest conversations, pray intentionally, and take simple action steps that nurture unity. Designed for both growing and struggling marriages, this plan helps couples move from survival to purpose as they learn how to actively build a love that lasts.

Building a Love That Lasts: 7-Day Devotional in Marriage, Thistles & Flowers Series

Marriage was designed by God to be a place of purpose, peace, and partnership, not fear. Yet many singles today are anxious about marriage due to past pain, stories they’ve heard, and experiences they’ve witnessed.
This 7-day devotional will help you identify the roots of marital anxiety, heal your heart, restore your trust in God, and prepare you for the “good land” God has promised you. Through scripture, reflection, and prayer, you will learn how to guard your heart, confront fear, and rest in God’s promise for your future.

Overcoming Marital Anxiety

Waiting can be one of the hardest seasons of life, especially when prayers seem unanswered. This 5-day plan is designed to help you trust God’s timing without losing faith, or hope.
Through this plan, you’ll learn how to wait well and rest in God’s process. Instead of rushing outcomes or attaching deadlines to God’s promises, this plan invites you to anchor your heart in His wisdom, faithfulness, and perfect timing.
Whether you’re waiting for clarity, healing, or the fulfillment of a promise, this plan will help you cultivate peace, strengthen trust, and stay aligned with God while you wait.



Wait Well: Trusting God's Timing

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.