Jill: I recently put out a question to my friends on Facebook, asking them about a date Mark and I are planning a No More Perfect Marriages Seminar. When I asked who would be interested in attending a marriage weekend on a specific date, the responses began rolling...
Mark: Yesterday Jill and I had the privilege of spending time with friends from long ago. We met Don and Alice during my first two years of Bible College where he was the pastor of the church we attended. With our closest extended family three hours away, Don and...
Mark: Yesterday at church, our pastor, Mike Baker, preached on Genesis 12:1-9. It’s the story of when God told Abram he needed to leave where he was to go where God wanted him to go. It was an 800-mile, 8-10 year journey where Abram had to depend upon God to...
Mark: Jill and I are in South Bend, Indiana today doing a television interview on No More Perfect Marriages (the interview starts at 8:23 if you watch it online!) It’s a 24 hour road trip, but it gave us time to talk on the 3 hour drive from our Central Illinois...
Jill: Summer is just around the corner and it’s likely our routines will experience some changes as we head from one season to another. Mark: Longer days in the summer allow for different ways of connecting as a couple. Jill and I enjoy sitting on the porch in...
Today is Day 2 of our two-day Focus on the Family No More Perfect Marriages interviews. You can listen to Day 1 here. If you’re a Focus on the Family listener who has dropped by for the first time…welcome! We’d love to meet you…please take a...
Join the No More Perfect Date Night Community today! Find out more info at www.NoMorePerfectDateNight.com! Spring Registration is closed but we’re opening it just for Family Life, Heidi St. John podcast, and Focus on the Family listeners until Friday, May 19,...
Jill: I’m most impatient when I’m overscheduled. Mark: I tend to take things personally when I am tired. Jill: My tone of voice has exasperation in it most often when I’m running late. Mark: I lack the ability to listen well when I’m trying to do too much. Jill: Just...
Mark: Jill was telling me about something that we needed to do this weekend. I was busy answering an email on my phone and I absentmindedly said a few “Uh huh’s” to feign interest in what she was saying. When she said, “Mark, did you hear me?” I had to admit that I...
Jill: Last weekend at the Hearts at Home conference, I spent some time with a woman whose marriage was at seven years of healing from her infidelity. There is still so much pain in their marriage, though, and it seems they are stuck. The more we talked the more I...
Last week we opened up our new No More Perfect Date Night Community and then we spent this past weekend with about 2700 women at the Illinois Hearts at Home conference. It was a full week and a great weekend but it will take us both about a week to recover!...
Mark: Jill and I spent a few days in Colorado Springs this past week interviewing with Focus On the Family, spending time with friends, and, of course, spending time in the mountains. One couple we spent time with have been married 36 years and they shared they had...
Jill: I lose my sunglasses. Every. Single. Pair. Mark: I forget to lock the doors at night. Jill: I’m imperfect and I am married to an imperfect human being. How we think about that imperfection makes all the difference in the world. Mark: Some of the most...
Mark: It was quite a few years ago when I first heard the phrase, “nonsexual touch.” I thought, “You’re kidding me. Those two words don’t even belong in the same sentence!” Jill: I remember Mark’s reaction to it. I craved non-sexual touch, but it seemed that Mark only...
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