Married Up
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!
Episodes
51 episodes
Love Never Fails - The God-Help That Exceeds Our Best Efforts
Let's be clear, human love fails. But God offers us a love that does not, and He also offers to enable us to live out unfailing love in our marriage.
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Season 4
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Episode 12
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29:04
Love Always Trusts, Hopes and Perseveres - The belief that carries us towards better
Have you ever had a coach or mentor who believes in you much that they practically WILL-you to be better? This is what love does. It's not pessimistic jaded or critical, but it believes for the best and strains forward to reach it. Let's talk a...
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Season 4
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Episode 11
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37:04
Love Always Protects - "You Are Safe With Me"
Love says "You are safe with me. I will keep your secrets. I will correct you in privately while praising you publicly and even take the fall with you or for you. You can trust that I will put your good ahead of my own. Let's talk about h...
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Season 4
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Episode 10
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24:38
Love Does Not Delight in Evil, but Rejoices in the Truth - Accountability in Marriage
Here's another great way your marriage makes you better - When you are "equally yoked" (as the Bible calls it) you have effectively DOUBLED your ability to hear from the Holy Spirit! And when stand together, against evil, and for truth together...
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Season 4
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Episode 9
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29:28
Love Keeps No Record of Wrongs - Planks and Judges...
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 insuf...
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Season 4
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Episode 8
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22:42
Love is Slow to Get Angry - Overcoming Anger
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 so...
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Season 4
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Episode 7
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37:53
Love is not Selfish - Growing in the Better Way
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 u...
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Season 4
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Episode 6
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34:40
Love Does Not Dishonor - The Power of Unconditional Honor
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...
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Season 4
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Episode 5
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32:03
Love is Not Proud or Boastful - The Marriage Humble Pill
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 lowere...
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Season 4
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Episode 4
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25:06
Love Does Not Envy - "You Are Me and I Am You"
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 r...
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29:35
Love is Kind - Simple and Sweet Marriage Glue
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 th...
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Season 4
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Episode 2
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33:51
Love is Patient - How do we get there?
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 PATIEN...
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Season 4
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Episode 1
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45:21
What your spouse IS and is NOT...
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 y...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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28:42
Advice for Your Newlywed Self?
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 o...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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47:00
The Busy Marriage
Is your life moving at 90MPH to the point where you and your spouse can be "ships passing in the night"? So many of us live life in the fast lane to the point that staying connected in our marriages can get left in the dust cloud of the rat rac...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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1:14:34
Seasons and Sacrifice
We talk to our new friends, former CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cat, Luke Tasker and his wife Jenna Tasker, about the seasons of their marriage together, and the sacrifice each one requires! Listen to find out the one constant that held them ...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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52:42
Your Empty Nest IS coming
Your "little birdies", if you have any, ARE going to grow up and leave the nest one day! What will that be like? What can you do NOW (if you're not there yet) to prepare your marriage and your "birdies" for that moment so you both thrive? We ta...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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55:30
Rocked By Rejection
Has rejection been a part of your life? We bet it has! And rejection can cause an infection that will make us react to our spouse and everyone around us out of hurt in self defense. But in reality, not all rejection is bad. Sometimes is can be ...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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41:28
It's All In The Finish
Everyone wants to live life on the mountaintops, but "real life" happens in the valleys... Tune in and hear the testimony of God's faithfulness to our friends Andrew and Tara Root. They ooze wisdom - so come get some! No matter what valley you'...
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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58:52
"Get Off Your Ash"
What do you do when the "Ashes" of your past reignite and threaten to burn down your marriage? Our friends Joe and Karen Amaral join us with their riveting story of absolute brokenness from past abuse and their journey to healing, as well as ho...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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54:50
Your "Love Personality Test"
There are lots of "personality tests" out there that can tell you a whole bunch about yourself. But we tried one recently that you do AS A COUPLE that shines a light on where you're "hitting and missing" in your marriage and can really help you...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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35:14
Better together!
How teachable are you? Are you willing to make room for your spouse to help you in areas you are weak, while being gracious enough to help them in their weaknesses too? Pride is the enemy of unified love, while humility feeds it. This episode i...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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33:20
When All Hope Is Lost
The Gambles marriage was OVER. Like, divorced-for-years over. All hope of restoration was lost. There were 3 kids in the mix, and after being divorced for 3 years, God brought them to salvation and then back together to full restoration and 3 M...
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1:00:43
Your Marriage Memories
What are your greatest memories? We'll go first and get the ball rolling by sharing some of OUR favorite marriage memories over the years! Stories you've for sure never heard from us (cause no one has!) By thinking through your grea...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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38:56
Let's talk about SEX, baby!
It's time we talked about sex, baby! That thing, that thing, that thing... (insert other 90's song references here) It is a wonderful God-idea invention of our creator. A fire that can warm our house in the fireplace, or burn everything down in...
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Season 2
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Episode 13
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37:44