Creating a Strong Foundation for a Healthy Marriage

Focus on the Family with Jim Daly

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family, Society & Culture, Relationships, Parenting

4.7 • 4.5K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Pastor Scott Kedersha encourages listeners to pursue God’s design for covenant marriage. He’ll equip dating couples with practical advice, empowering you to build your relationship on a healthy foundation.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Jim Daly. In summertime, giving to focus on the family slows down, but families in crisis
0:05.8	still need your support. As we face a bit of a shortfall right now, we need your help to save marriages
0:11.6	through hope, offer dignity, comfort, and hope to children in foster care through wait no more,
0:17.7	and provide biblical resources for families. Your gift by August 31st will make a real
0:23.1	difference and offer lasting hope. Visit focus on the family.com slash support families.
0:32.7	Sadly, we tend to date each other's PR departments. That's what a friend's told me years ago.
0:38.3	That's funny. We don't eat carbohydrates and we're taking care of ourselves and we're working out all the time and we put our best foot forward and we're doing all the things to impress the other and we hide the stuff.
0:49.9	That's Pastor Scott Kedarsha and he joins us today on Focus on the Family with Jim Daly. I'm John Fuller, and welcome to the show. You know, we at Focus on the Family have so many resources for every stage of life, podcast articles, books, you know, you name it. I think we've got it. If we don't, we'll make it. And it's for your kids, for your marriage, for your parenting journey, everything.
1:12.6	And I hope you know that we're here for you no matter what. Today's topic is going to be
1:16.9	great and timely, and that is making sure your kids or you. We have a lot of teens and 20-somethings
1:24.9	that listen to the program, but we're going to cover some great
1:27.9	content about getting ready for marriage. And it's called Ready or Not K-N-O-T, quite a clever
1:35.2	title. Yeah. And I'm looking forward to this discussion because I have two boys, 24 and 22,
1:40.3	and this is going to be part of their season before too long. We all hope and pray that our kids
1:45.1	grow up and get married. And if wherever you are in that journey, as Jim said, we're here in the book
1:51.2	by Scott Kadersia that we're going to cover today is called Ready or Not, 12 conversations
1:55.5	every couple needs to have before marriage. And Scott is the Marriage and Family Pastor at Harris Creek Baptist Church
2:02.5	in Waco, Texas. This book is available to you. Stop by the show notes to find out more or give us a call
2:09.9	800, the letter A and the word family. Scott, welcome to the program. So good to be here with you guys.
2:15.9	Thanks for having me. I like this ready or cannot.
2:19.0	That's really fun.
2:21.0	You know, why is it important to consider deeply the person you might be marrying?
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