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The Naked Marriage with Dave & Ashley Willis

Is Your Marriage at Rock-Bottom? Jesus Changes Everything | Marriage Minute

The Naked Marriage with Dave & Ashley Willis

XO Marriage

Relationships, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2026

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

No matter what "gutter" your marriage is in — abuse, addiction, or financial crisis — surrendering to Jesus is the one thing that can change everything. You don't have to be stuck in the crazy cycle. Like Jake and Sierra, build your life on the foundation of Christ - there's no other path out of brokenness. _______________ We want your marriage to thrive! Learn more at http://xomarriage.com Dave and Ashley Willis spent thirteen years in full-time church ministry before devoting their work entirely toward the global mission of building stronger, Christ-centered marriages. Their marriage-related books, blogs, podcast, speaking events and media resources have reached millions of couples around the world making Dave and Ashley one of the most recognized and trusted couples in marriage ministry. Dave and Ashley partnered with XO Marriage in 2018. XO Marriage is the nation's largest marriage-focused ministry. The Willis family includes four sons and a rescue dog named "Chi Chi." When Dave and Ashley aren't writing and speaking, they love hanging out with their family, watching movies and going on long walks which is also where they develop many of their marriage ministry content ideas. Learn more about Dave & Ashley at daveandashley.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

When was the last time you stopped and listened to your body?

0:03.0

Here's a Holland and Barrett ad break to do just that.

0:06.0

Go on. Have a listen to your gut.

0:10.0

Is that a gurgle?

0:12.0

A rumble?

0:14.0

Is it straining after lunch?

0:16.0

Or is it saying...

0:18.0

You've got to show me love. we know what your body's asking for in store online on the app back

0:27.9

your body holland and barrett hey friends david and ashley here welcome to the marriage minute on the naked marriage

0:34.4

podcast we're so glad that you're here and we are doing the marriage minute because sometimes we just don't have time to listen to a full-length episode. So we want to give you a little tidbit of marriage encouragement as you go into your weekend. So let's dive in. There's so many practical things and practical tools. And we learned so many of them from your podcast and from doing deep, deep intense counseling.

0:55.2

And we go over a lot of those tools in our book.

0:57.8

But I'll just say the number one thing is just surrendering to Jesus.

1:02.0

That's the only thing that saved us.

1:04.6

Our book is called From Gutters to Glory.

1:07.1

And the idea is that sometimes you just find yourself in the gutter like at rock bottom

1:11.7

and for us it was our incredibly toxic relationship but maybe it's a drug addiction maybe it's

1:19.0

a financial hole that you've gotten yourself in maybe it's pornography addiction whatever your

1:25.7

gutter is there is a way out of the gutter, and that way is Jesus.

1:31.1

Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life.

1:34.1

And when Jesus entered our lives, every single thing changed.

1:37.9

Thank you all so much for joining us for today's Marriage Minute.

1:40.9

We hope that you want to hear more of this, so please join us on Monday for a full-length episode.

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