After serving as a pastor for 20 years, Mark Savage hit a crisis point in his own life. Festering childhood wounds combined with the stresses of marriage and life erupted in Mark's life like a devastating tornado. There was a season where Mark turned his back on God, left his wife and five childen and he nearly self-destructed.

After a dark year, Mark experienced his own resurrection on an Easter Sunday twelve years ago. He stopped fighting with God and began to climb out of the hole of his own making. Now, Mark helps others do the same. 

In this new episode of The Better Together Podcast, I'm thrilled to talk with my friend Mark Savage as he shares about 5 things that a struggling husband wished that his wife knew. Mark and his wife, Jill Savage (one of my favorite people!), speak internationally, and around the country. They also host marriage intensives in their home, helping couples in every stage of married life.

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www.markandjill.org

No More Perfect Marriages by Mark and Jill Savage

Courses:

No More Perfect Marriages: Home Edition

The Wait is Not Wasted

Rebuilding Trust

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As mental health awareness month continues, I’m talking about the four types of worriers from my Winning the Worry Battle book.

• Silent Sufferer

• Busy Body

• Control Freak

• Mother Hen

After discussing about the four types of worriers, I’ll teach you one of the most effective faith-based tools that I created years ago and I still use today. It’s simple and easy, so you can use it, too. In fact, you can download a notecard that you can use with the tool right by clicking here.

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I’m changing this up this week! Since it’s May and mental health awareness month, I’m sharing a little of my journey with anxiety as well as teaching YOU my popular C.A.L.M. technique. As I was studying the first chapter of Joshua, this verse inspired me to create this powerful technique.

I don’t know what’s happening in your life today, but read this verse and imagine God speaking it over you and what you’re facing today:

No one will be able to stand against you as long as you live. For I will be with you... I will not fail you or abandon you. -Joshua 1:5 NLT

Can you choose to believe God for this today? When you’re tempted to doubt, come back to this verse and say, “God, I will believe You are for me!”

This verse impacted me so much that I created the C.A.L.M technique, which I’ve taught this to tens of thousands of people. It effectively equips you to reduce your painful anxiety symptoms so that you can think more clearly AND most importantly, reconnect with God!  

Where is God in the middle of our suffering? How can we come to grips with the goodness of God when so much in life just doesn't seem to make sense?

Join Barb on this new episode of The Better Together Podcast as she speaks with special guest Alexandra V. Hoover. From poverty to abuse to abandonment, Alexandra knows what it looks like to walk through suffering that she just couldn't come to grips with as a young Latina. It was not until she took the time to look back and trace the hand of God in her life that she was able to begin receiving the healing that she desperately needed. And now she wants to help you do the same. This is a powerful conversation that will speak to your heart and remind you of the goodness of God in your past and in your present.

RESOURCES FROM THIS EPISODE

Eyes Up: How to Trust God's Heart by Tracing His Hand 

alexandravhoover.com

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Alexandra V. Hoover is a wife, mother of three, daughter, sought-out speaker, and writer. She's passionate about communicating the gospel's beauty and hope, whether through writing or speaking, online or in person. Her words spur people on to hope, healing, and their mission. She has the privilege of serving on staff at Transformation Church and spends her days loving on her family, dancing with her kids, and living on mission right where God has her.
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