Transform Your Marriage Through Simple Lifestyle Shifts (Part 2 of 2)
Focus on the Family with Jim Daly
Focus on the Family
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🗓️ 1 April 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Marriage isn’t built in a single defining moment—it’s formed in the everyday choices couples make with their words, their attitudes, and their actions. Dave and Ashley Willis join us to explore how small, intentional shifts in marriage can lead to lasting change. Drawing on Scripture and decades of family ministry experience, they offer practical tools to help you strengthen your connection and build a marriage that reflects Christ’s love.
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| 0:00.0 | Is your marriage struggling, communication breaking down, trust fading, conflict that never seems to resolve? |
| 0:07.6 | There's still hope. |
| 0:09.2 | Hope Restored marriage intensives by focus on the family, help couples step away from daily life, |
| 0:15.0 | and focus fully on rebuilding their relationship. |
| 0:18.0 | And right now, through the Marriage Investment Initiative, |
| 0:22.1 | Hope Restored is investing $1,000 toward marriage intensives. Visit hoperestored.com slash marriage dash investment. |
| 0:31.9 | Ephesians 432 talks about the kind and compassionate to one another, and then it uses a word that I love, |
| 0:39.9 | tenderhearted for giving one another. And I think that tenderness in marriage |
| 0:42.3 | is usually what we need to lean into |
| 0:44.3 | when there's a pattern of offense of like, |
| 0:46.3 | how can I, in my tone, in my words, |
| 0:48.3 | in my pursuit of my spouse, in my thoughtfulness, |
| 0:51.3 | just be tender with them. |
| 0:53.3 | You know, not rough with them, but just |
| 0:55.4 | tender with them. That's Dave Willis, and he joins us along with his wife Ashley on Focus |
| 1:01.0 | on the Family with Jim Daly. Thanks for being here. I'm John Fuller. You know, John, you know it's good |
| 1:05.8 | when you're learning things. And that's the whole goal for us here, Focus on the family. And believe |
| 1:09.9 | me, we learn right |
| 1:10.8 | alongside you, the listener, the YouTube watcher. These are just good tidbits. And last time with |
| 1:16.0 | Dave and Ashley, we learned some good things about just making some small corrections in attitude |
| 1:20.7 | and how we speak to one another in our marriages. You can go back and listen to that by getting |
| 1:25.4 | the app on your smartphone or just go to the website and you can listen to the program last time. |
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