Married Up

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We are Dan & Danielle Macaulay and we both married up 23 years ago. We are thrilled to bring you this marriage encouragement podcast to help you keep your marriage moving in the right direction! Our goal is to be a breath of fresh air to married couples. God designed marriage – and His ideas about how to do it will make you, and your spouse better. With His help, we believe you’ll find you both married up!

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Love Keeps No Record of Wrongs - Planks and Judges...

Jul 15 2024 22 mins  
When we take on the burden of keeping records of other people's wrongs it creates burdens we were never meant to carry. When we self-preserve we actually self-harm. When we assume the role of JUDGE, we are inferring God's judgment will be insufficient. Let's talk about letting go and being free.

Love is Slow to Get Angry - Overcoming Anger

Jul 08 2024 37 mins  
When uncontrolled anger is allowed to flow unchecked in a marriage you leave yourselves defenseless against destruction. Heritage and inherited family patterns are not a sufficient excuse. Let's talk about some ways to slow our anger down to something manageable and healthy. It's possible!

Love is not Selfish - Growing in the Better Way

Jun 30 2024 34 mins  
We are born selfish - sin-nature at it's "finest". But God's way (much higher than ours) replaces selfishness with servanthood. Marriage will "force the issue" on our inherent selfishness like almost nothing else! But it can be hard for us to learn and harder to live - let's talk about it!

Love Does Not Dishonor - The Power of Unconditional Honor

Jun 23 2024 32 mins  
How hard do you find it to honor your spouse when they are failing and faltering or when they're not keeping up "their side of the bargain" around the house... What can one do with a husband who craves honor, but isn't living his best honorable life right now? The honor the Bible tells us to give each other supersedes condition - and that make it hard for us to to give it in our ow

Love is Not Proud or Boastful - The Marriage Humble Pill

Jun 17 2024 25 mins  
God made us to need community, and community, especially at its most intimate expression (marriage) is humbling by design. In humility in marriage,. our "low places" are raised up by our spouse who covers us and our high places are lowered down as we cover them. In humility love calls us to lay down what we want as we receive what we really need.

Love Does Not Envy - "You Are Me and I Am You"

Jun 09 2024 29 mins  
Is it possible to be envious or jealous of your spouse? Maybe thinking they have the 'better end of the deal' in this season, or that their part in your shared roles is better than yours? How can we embrace contentment, practice gratitude and re-frame our thoughts surround the TEAM that is your marriage? Let's talk!

Love is Kind - Simple and Sweet Marriage Glue

Jun 03 2024 33 mins  
Right after praying together regularly, the best marriage glue there is, is simply being KIND to one another. We talk about the benefits of this and it is amazing! Your spouse will even find you more physically attractive when you're kind to them. It costs nothing and it works!

Love is Patient - How do we get there?

May 26 2024 45 mins  
This season we are going through the descriptions of love from 1 Corinthians 13 one by one - but in a fresh and fun way! So starting at the beginning, love is patient! If you've been married more than 5 minutes you know marriage requires PATIENCE... Jump in to season 4 with us - it's going to be fun!

What your spouse IS and is NOT...

May 15 2023 28 mins  
Are you operating in disfunction and don't even realize it? Maybe it's been a slow drift, or you've adopted patterns we all see in the world around us that aren't actually helpful, healthy or Biblical. This week we have some reminders of what your spouse IS and what they are NOT. A quick refresher that we all need from time to time!

Advice for Your Newlywed Self?

May 08 2023 47 mins  
If you could go back and give your newlywed self one piece of advice - what would it be? We asked this question on socials and we have all the answers! There's some good advice here - and it's good advice for all us old-ly-weds to be reminded of too!