As the all-too-short Minnesota growing season comes to an end, the joy of daily harvest is happening in my tiny suburban garden. It's a timely reminder of the principle of sowing and reaping, featured here on this week's Heart Igniting Radio broadcast. Understanding how this principle affects marriage gives us insight into how to grow a great relationship. Here are some key principles: You reap THE SAME as you sow - In marriage this means that the fruit of our relationship is

A new marriage often looks like a fresh garden teeming with promising plants that flourish under the time, effort, and attention of a new life together. But in the time between “I do” and “until death do us part” there are years of growing seasons that require careful tending to ensure a fruitful and fulfilling marriage. This week on Hearts Igniting Radio, we focused on everyone’s least favorite gardening task: weeding. (Click here to listen to podcast) In marriage, the “weed

This week on on the radio broadcast as we continued on the theme of "Tending the Garden of Your Marriage" (Click for Podcast) we considered the most foundational part of our garden and our marriage: The soil. Often times when couples are working hard trying to cultivate a good marriage but aren't getting great results, we ask the question "How is your soil?" This is an opportunity to examine the foundation of their marriage; the core beliefs that all the well-intentioned seed

This month at Marriage First Friday and on Hearts Igniting Radio we are focusing on "Tending The Garden of your Marriage". One day in mid-June we looked out at our own backyard garden and noticed that it was teeming with weeds and didn't have any plants in it. We had gotten too busy to turn the soil, pull the weeds, and plant the seeds that would lead to harvest. We were reminded that marriage is that way. When our marriage isn't producing the fruit we want, it is often becau