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MarriageToday with Jimmy & Karen Evans

Building A Marriage That Lasts

MarriageToday with Jimmy & Karen Evans

XO Marriage

Relationships, Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Parenting, Kids & Family

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Young people today are terrified of marriage because they think it will fail. Jimmy Evans takes away the fear by sharing the biblical formula for a successful marriage. It starts with having the right expectations and viewing marriage through the lens of a covenant—not a contract.  Since 1994, MarriageToday has used every medium at its disposal to strengthen families and marriages through its diverse ministry outreaches. There is a fierce battle being fought for marriage in America right now, but we can win it. We want to raise the standard. We want to give people help and hope to succeed in marriage. MarriageToday is committed to reaching as many couples as possible to offer the help and hope needed to succeed. You can be an agent of restoration by supporting the mission of MarriageToday. Your gift propels us to help marriages like yours receive the training, encouragement, and care they need. Consider Giving Today. https://marriagetoday.com/donate/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0

Welcome to the Marriage Today Podcast. I'm Karen Evans and this is my husband Jimmy. We have a great teaching coming up.

0:41.0

We've got some questions here from here. Before we go to the teaching, we're talking about three unchangeable realities of marriage that every married couple needs to understand.

0:50.0

That's the teaching coming up here in just a few minutes. But Karen, let me read you this question first of all from one of our viewers.

0:56.0

What do you do when your spouse does not work on the habits? They know they need to change to better the marriage.

1:02.0

I want to encourage him to change without nagging or seeming disrespectful, but I'm so ready to be out of this cycle. I'm feeling defeated and that things will ever change.

1:13.0

Yeah, that's a good question too. I think that my first thought is, you know, one of the things that you and I have practiced doing is, you know, asking each other, you know, how are we doing?

1:24.0

You know, is there anything I can do to improve? And so instead of looking at him not doing, maybe ask him, is there something that she needs to do?

1:32.0

And, you know, the way I see it is an act of humility goes a long way. And, you know, if we're humble in our relationship with each other and we, you know, say, you know, hey, you know, I know I can be irritable sometimes. I know I can be frustrated.

1:46.0

And, you know, please forgive me if I've been that way, but I would just like to, you know, if there's something I can do to help this relationship improve, I'd like for us to talk about it.

1:56.0

You know, maybe just go back and forth with a communication like that, because I think if it's that bad though that they do need it counseling.

2:04.0

Yeah. And, you know, you say this care all the time when I was at my worst early in our marriage, you went before the Lord and you said, Lord, change me.

2:15.0

And when you began to change, because I had talked about bad habits, nothing that you could have said would have gotten through to me.

2:23.0

But, when you began to change and you began to soften, when you attacked me early in our marriage, you get mad at me and you, you know, say things to me, it just made me worse.

2:33.0

But, when you began to change and soften, you talked about being active with humility, that's when I began to notice, not just that you were changing but that I was doing things I needed to change.

2:46.0

So, I think praying and allowing God to change you and always being honest and just saying, honey, I wish you didn't do this, this, this and you know, whatever.

2:54.0

But, once you have said it for five or eight times and they're still not changing, you need to change your.

3:01.0

Well, I think sometimes just make a commitment to sit down and listen to good teaching.

3:05.0

You know, our website is full of material that they can sit together, listen to some good teaching and then just talk about it.

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