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[E298] Passing the Peace—Part 3: Contentment in God’s Provision
Rey speaks to fellow husbands about trusting God as the true provider. Through personal reflection and Scripture, he explores how contentment in Christ can reshape our choices, help us recognize God’s provision, and bring peace.
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This podcast is from Couples Journey with Christ Jesus Ministry 2024 Blog Series Week 6, Day 3.
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[E297] Passing the Peace—Part 2: Trusting God’s Sovereignty
Rey and Annie reflect on how trusting Christ can bring peace and assurance to marriage, even in unexpected circumstances. Through Isaiah 26:3 and Psalm 103:19, they encourage couples to trust God’s sovereignty and purpose.
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This podcast is from Couples Journey with Christ Jesus Ministry 2024 Blog Series Week 6, Day 2.
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[E296] Passing the Peace—Part 1: The Peace That Guards Us
Rey and Annie reflect on how the noise and anxieties of life can affect marriage—and why lasting peace comes from God alone. Through Philippians 4:7, they remind us that God’s peace guards our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
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[CTT22] Us Against the Problem, Not Against Each Other
In this episode of "Coffee, Tea & Testimonies," Rey and Annie share an honest husband-and-wife conversation about protecting your marriage from outside relational stress. Whether it’s a demanding relative or a difficult friend, learn how to face challenges as a team, set biblical boundaries, and remain rooted in Christ so that external conflict never creates internal division.
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[E295] Accepting Ourselves - Day 5: Living in God’s Design
In this final episode of Accepting Ourselves, we explore how God’s design helps us face our shortcomings with honesty, receive His grace, and grow in our relationships—including marriage.
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This podcast is from Couples Journey with Christ Jesus Ministry 2024 Blog Series Week 16, Day 5. Visit the blog link to access to the free reflection guide or directly download from this link - https://tinyurl.com/2024WK16RGU
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[E294] Accepting Ourselves - Day 4: A Wife’s Journey Through His Love
In this episode, Annie reflects on how journaling has helped her recognize God’s faithfulness and see herself through His truth. Discover how looking back at life’s challenges can reveal God’s grace at work—even in our weaknesses.
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This podcast is from Couples Journey with Christ Jesus Ministry 2024 Blog Series Week 16, Day 4. Visit the blog link to access to the free reflection guide or directly download from this link - https://tinyurl.com/2024WK16RGU
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[E293] Accepting Ourselves - Day 3: A Husband’s Journey in Christ
In this episode of Accepting Ourselves, Rey shares a lesson he and Annie learned through experience: the importance of pursuing unity in Christ. We explore how husbands’ choices affect their families and how God’s grace can keep us grounded as we journey through life together.
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[E292] Accepting Ourselves - Day 2: Finding Freedom in Grace
In this episode of Accepting Ourselves, we reflect on how God’s grace meets us in our weaknesses. Discover how accepting our shortcomings without shame can deepen our faith and help us extend greater grace and understanding to our spouse.
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This podcast is from Couples Journey with Christ Jesus Ministry 2024 Blog Series Week 16, Day 2. Visit the blog link to access to the free reflection guide or directly download from this link - https://tinyurl.com/2024WK16RGU
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[E291] Accepting Ourselves - Day 1: Seeing Our God-Given Worth
In this episode, we explore how biblical self-acceptance can shape the way we love our spouse. Psalm 139:14 reminds us that each of us is wonderfully made by God and created with purpose. Join us as we reflect on how this truth can grow gratitude, understanding, and care in marriage.
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[CTT21] Talking Like Friends Again
Join Rey and Annie for “Coffee, Tea & Testimonies” as they talk about how couples can rebuild friendship through kind words, patient listening, and honest conversations rooted in Christ. Whether you feel close or distant, small, grace-filled changes can help you begin talking like friends again.
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[E290] A Few Good Questions-Part 5: Questions That Strengthen Marriage
In the final part of the series, Rey and Annie explore how intentional questions can move marriage communication beyond routines and responsibilities. With God at the center, couples can rediscover openness, unity, security, and deeper connection.
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This podcast is from Couples Journey with Christ Jesus Ministry 2024 Blog Series Week 17, Day 5.
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[E289] A Few Good Questions-Part 4: A Wife’s Courageous Surrender
In Part 4, Annie reflects on the courage it takes for wives to ask difficult questions with the right words and posture. Inspired by Esther’s surrender and obedience, she shares how prayer, repentance, and dependence on God can guide wives through uncomfortable moments in marriage.
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[E288] A Few Good Questions-Part 3: A Husband’s Heart Journey
In Part 3, Rey reflects with fellow husbands on how hidden pain and unresolved baggage can affect communication in marriage. Through God’s grace, difficult questions can become invitations to healing, understanding, unity, and a deeper walk with Christ.
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This podcast is from Couples Journey with Christ Jesus Ministry 2024 Blog Series Week 17, Day 3.
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[E287] A Few Good Questions-Part 2: Courage to Ask
Not every question receives the response we hope for. In Part 2, Rey and Annie reflect on how faith, prayer, and obedience can help couples respond with courage and seek understanding—even when conversations become difficult or uncertain.
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This podcast is from Couples Journey with Christ Jesus Ministry 2024 Blog Series Week 17, Day 2.
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[E286] A Few Good Questions-Part 1: Asking with Grace
How we ask questions can either deepen connection or create conflict. In Part 1, Rey and Annie reflect on biblical communication, seeking God’s guidance, and developing a heart posture of love, understanding, and grace when speaking with our spouses.
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This podcast is from Couples Journey with Christ Jesus Ministry 2024 Blog Series Week 17, Day 1.
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[CTT20] Is It Worth The Argument?
Is It Worth the Argument?
Why do small disagreements in marriage sometimes become much bigger than the original issue? In this honest conversation, Rey and Annie explore grace, humility, pride, defensiveness, and the desire to be right. Together, they discuss how couples can pause before correcting, ask before assuming, repair quickly, and allow conflict to draw them closer to Christ instead of pushing them toward victory.
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[E285] Unchained Together - Part 5: Walking in Freedom Together
The final reflection brings Days 1–4 together and offers practical steps for couples who want to move beyond past conditioning. Grounded in 2 Corinthians 5:17 and John Gill’s commentary, this episode explores how Christ creates new possibilities for marriage.
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This podcast is from Couples Journey with Christ Jesus Ministry 2024 Blog Series Week 24, Day 5. Visit the blog link to access to the free reflection guide.
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[E284] Unchained Together - Part 4: Trusting God with Your Marriage
Annie reflects on witnessing God’s transforming work in her husband’s life and how his spiritual growth strengthened her own faith. This episode encourages wives to pray for their husbands and place their marriages under God’s authority.
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This podcast is from Couples Journey with Christ Jesus Ministry 2024 Blog Series Week 24, Day 4. Visit the blog link to access to the free reflection guide.
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[E283] Unchained Together - Part 3: From Religious Familiarity to Relationship
Church attendance and religious familiarity are not the same as a personal relationship with Christ. This reflection explores how Jesus transforms a husband’s heart, perspective, marriage, and family life.
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This podcast is from Couples Journey with Christ Jesus Ministry 2024 Blog Series Week 24, Day 3. Visit the blog link to access to the free reflection guide.
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[E282] Unchained Together - Part 2: Facing the Pain Together
Pain can expose wounds and patterns that avoidance has kept hidden. In this reflection, we explore how surrendering pain to Christ can open the way to healing, sanctification, and transformation in marriage.
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[E281] Unchained Together - Part 1: The Heart of Lasting Change
Influence shapes our choices, reactions, and relationships—often more subtly than we realize. In this episode, we explore how pride, fear, resentment, and selfishness can keep individuals and marriages trapped in unhealthy patterns.
Lasting change requires more than modifying behavior. It begins in the heart and is anchored in Christ. Discover how surrendering to Jesus can bring humility, grace, truth, forgiveness, and spiritual renewal into your life and marriage.
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[CTT19] Love, Laughs, and Learning to Trust God (Part 2)
In Part 2 of Love, Laughs, and Learning to Trust God, we continue the conversation about faith in marriage. We discuss seeking God daily, staying committed through conflict, growing together as disciples, and building trust through small habits of love, prayer, forgiveness, and kindness.
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Seeking God as a way of life• Faith during seasons of uncertainty
• Remaining committed through challenges
• The purpose of a Christ-centered marriage
• Listening, laughter, kindness, and grace
• Trusting God during conflict
• Responding with humility and patience
• Growing together as disciples of Jesus
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[E280] What Are You Saying?-Part 5: Renewed Minds, Transformed Marriage
In the final episode of “What Are You Saying?”, Rey and Annie explore practical ways to recognize negative thoughts, replace lies with God’s truth, study Scripture, and pray. They emphasize that renewing the mind is not merely a religious practice but a work of the Holy Spirit that transforms individuals and strengthens marriages.
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This podcast is from Couples Journey with Christ Jesus Ministry 2024 Blog Series Week 29, Day 5. Visit the blog link to access to the free reflection guide.
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[E279] What Are You Saying?-Part 4: A Wife’s Renewed Mind
In Part 4, Annie shares an honest reflection for wives and mothers navigating family needs, unexpected challenges, anxiety, and emotional burdens. Grounded in Matthew 11:28, she reminds women that quiet time with God, surrender, and dependence on the Holy Spirit bring strength, rest, and a renewed mind.
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[E278] What Are You Saying?-Part 3: A Husband’s Mind
In Part 3, Rey shares an honest reflection for husbands about the challenge of renewing the mind amid spiritual battles, family struggles, and marital conflict. He emphasizes dependence on God’s Word, the Holy Spirit, and Christ’s example while encouraging husbands to lead with humility, grace, courage, and faith.
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[E277] What Are You Saying?-Part 2: Self-Talk in Marriage
Rey and Annie continue exploring how internal dialogue shapes the way couples view one another and respond during marital challenges. Through Philippians 4:8 and Proverbs 4:21, they reflect on replacing negative thoughts with God’s truth and pursuing Christlike thinking in marriage.
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[E276] What Are You Saying?-Part 1: Renewing Our Minds
Our inner conversations shape our emotions, actions, and relationships. In Part 1, Rey and Annie explore self-talk, negative thoughts, and Paul’s reminder in Romans 12:2 to experience transformation through the renewing of our minds in Christ.
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[CTT18] Love, Laughs, and Learning to Trust God (Part 1)
In Part 1 of Coffee, Tea & Testimonies with Rey & Annie, we talk about building a Christ-centered marriage through love, laughter, faith, and trust. Together, we explore what it means to trust God when feelings change, recognize His faithfulness, and grow in a relationship with Him as a couple.
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[E275] Seeing Our Blessings-Part 5: Christ, Our Greatest Blessing
In the final episode of “Seeing Our Blessings,” Rey and Annie reflect on the biblical meaning of blessing and why Jesus Christ is our greatest blessing. Through Luke 7 and the example of the Roman centurion, they explore faith, humility, stewardship, and how life’s struggles can draw us closer to Christ.
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This podcast is from Couples Journey with Christ Jesus Ministry 2024 Blog Series Week 30, Day 5. Visit the blog link to access to the free reflection guide.
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[E274] Seeing Our Blessings-Part 4: Faith in Our Husbands’ Weakness
In Part 4, Annie reflects on how a wife’s faith can grow through seasons of marital difficulty. Through prayer, humility, and Luke 7:1–17, she discovers that a husband’s weaknesses can become an opportunity to experience God’s grace and trust Christ more deeply.
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[E273] Seeing Our Blessings-Part 3: A Husband’s Faith
In Part 3, Rey speaks candidly to fellow husbands about misplaced faith, moral blindness, and the danger of making marriage, success, or material things the objects of our trust. He points husbands back to Jesus Christ as the true source of hope, faithfulness, and blessing.
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[E272] Seeing Our Blessings-Part 2: Guarding the Heart
In Part 2, Rey and Annie explore how our hearts can distort our understanding of blessings, happiness, and marriage. Through Scripture, they remind us to anchor our hearts in God and view our spouses through the grace, mercy, and love of Jesus Christ.
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[E271 ] Seeing Our Blessings-Part 1: Understanding True Blessings
What does it truly mean to be blessed? In Part 1, Rey and Annie examine how worldly expectations can distort our understanding of blessings and remind us that true blessing is found in Jesus Christ—not merely in earthly prosperity.
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[CTT17] Turning Daily Habits Into Spiritual Practices
In this heartfelt conversation, Rey and Annie explore how ordinary marriage moments—listening, serving, praying, resting, forgiving, and expressing gratitude—can draw couples closer to Christ and one another. Be encouraged to invite God into your daily rhythms and discover how small acts of love can become sacred.
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[E270] Beyond Recharging Batteries-Part 5: The Invitation to Rest
In the final part of the series, Rey and Annie explore Jesus’ invitation in Matthew 11:28–30. They explain that coming to Christ is not merely a moment of relief, but the beginning of a lifelong journey of humility, learning, transformation, and true rest—affecting both our faith and relationships.
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This podcast is from Couples Journey with Christ Jesus Ministry 2024 Blog Series Week 31, Day 5. Visit the blog link to access to the free reflection guide.
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[E269] Beyond Recharging Batteries-Part 4: Returning to Christ
In Part 4, Annie shares an honest reflection on her journey as a wife, mother, and entrepreneur. Through seasons of compromise, guilt, and overwhelming responsibility, she discovered that true restoration begins with humility, repentance, and continually returning to Christ.
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[E268] Beyond Recharging Batteries-Part 3: Depending on Christ
In Part 3, Rey speaks to fellow husbands about the danger of relying solely on personal strength and responsibilities. He shares how surrendering to Christ brings genuine peace, hope, and wisdom for facing life’s challenges and leading a marriage under God’s guidance.
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[E267] Beyond Recharging Batteries-Part 2: Come to Jesus
In Part 2, Rey and Annie reflect on Jesus’ invitation in Matthew 11:28–30 to all who are weary and heavy-laden. They explore how pride can prevent us from recognizing our burdens, admitting our shortcomings, and fully depending on Christ—especially within marriage.
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[E266] Beyond Recharging Batteries - Part 1: Beyond the Pain
Life’s challenges can leave marks on a marriage—some becoming lessons, while others remain unhealed wounds. In Part 1, Rey and Annie reflect on spiritual recharging, navigating difficulties through God’s grace, and discovering why Jesus offers something far beyond temporary renewal.
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[CTT16] How We Stopped Living in the Past - Renew Not Replay
In this episode of Coffee, Tea & Testimonies, Rey and Annie share how they stopped living in the past and learned to “renew not replay” using Philippians 3:13–14 as their guide. They tell honest stories of regret, repair, and the small habits that helped them rebuild trust. Practical, pastoral, and encouraging, this conversation invites couples to take the next mile together in faith.
Tune in for a hopeful, actionable episode that points couples to the blog’s Reflection Guide and 30/60/90 roadmap.
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