Jill: This weekend I had the privilege of spending time with some fabulous ladies in Ft. Branch, Indiana. I LOVE being able to bring encouragement and hope through women’s conferences and events. Mark: Because we were in the neighborhood, we decided to head over...
Mark: Yesterday Jill and I left our youngest at college in downtown Chicago for his last semester. It’s hard to believe he’s finishing up and getting ready to fully move into adulthood. As we were driving home from Chicago–a two-hour drive for...
Mark: Last week was a week of rest for Jill and I. We spent time enjoying Lake Michigan along with Jill’s parents. It was one of the most restful weeks I’ve had in a long time. Jill: It was a four hour drive to Holland, Michigan and a five hour drive home...
Mark: We do it all the time. Jill: We see things through our own experiences, history, temperament, personality, and family of upbringing perspective and we determine what someone else means with their words or body language. Mark: The only problem is that the meaning...
Mark: Jill and I have the privilege of doing quite a bit of marriage mentoring. While many of those conversations pave the way to powerful breakthroughs, sometimes those conversations are tough ones and words can fly carelessly. Jill: The Bible says that our tongue...
Mark: 2 Corinthians 1:4 tells us that, “He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others.” When we go through tough times, God often redeems the pain by allowing us to share hope and help to others going through something similar. Jill:...
Mark: On Saturday, we had the privilege of spending the morning with over 80 couples at our No More Perfect Marriages Morning Out in Normal, IL. It was a great morning of working on our marriages together! Jill: When we do our seminars, we teach a session and then we...
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,...
