Episode 24: Overcoming the Obstacle of Different Backgrounds in your marriage with Kate and Kagiso Motaung
Release Date: 04/13/2021
Episode 54: How to Find the Best Books for Your Kids and Make the Most of Reading Together–with Kristin Wynalda
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Episode 53: Honest Truths to Help You Respond to the Call to Foster with Jamie Finn
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Episode 52: How to Build Up Your Marriage to Survive the Worst Times in Your Life--with Gene and Carol Kent
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Episode 51: Bill Hendricks and Bev Godby: Giftedness in Our Kids
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Episode 50: How an Introvert and Extrovert Can Build a Happy and Understanding Marriage with Holley Gerth and Jason Rovenstine
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Episode 49: How to Stay in Control When You Feel Angry at Your Kids with Amber Lia
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Episode 47: Help Your Kids Grow Up with Joy and Confidence
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Episode 46: Practical Ways to Put the Joy Back into Your Marriage Today--with Marcus Warner and Chris Coursey
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Need a sign to know if your marriage is thriving or struggling today? The clues are standing at your own front door: How do you feel when your spouse walks in at the end of the day? Are you greeting with a kiss or a cold shoulder? Do you feel eager to connect and share the events of the day? Is your spouse the reason you’re excited to come home? If your stress goes up and your happiness goes down when your spouse comes through the door, chances are you’re suffering from a “joy gap” in your marriage. Today’s guests, Marcus Warner and Chris Coursey, are here with a...
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Episode 45: How to Grow in God When Your Soul is Tired and Life is Hard--with Bill & Kristi Gaultiere
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You put your trust in Christ a long time ago. Since then, you’ve spent countless hours in prayer and reading the Bible. You’ve attended church and been faithful to give and serve however you can. You could tell story after story of how God met your needs and helped you along the way. Yet today, God feels distant and out of reach. It seems like your prayers hit the ceiling. Doubt, guilt, and discouragement are making a wreck of your faith. You wonder how to break down the wall and draw close to God again. Today’s guests, Bill and Kristi Gaultiere, are here to give you hope on your...
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Episode 44: How to Build the Love Life You've Always Hoped For in Your Marriage—with Gary Thomas
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Like Gary Thomas says, we come into marriage with certain “sexpectations” of what we’ll experience with our spouse. We look forward to romance, pleasure, and satisfaction over a lifetime of love together. But every couple struggles to sustain the passion. To understand each other’s needs and wants. To communicate our thoughts, feelings, and desires about the most personal part of our relationship. We want to draw close and experience all God designed sex to be, but we don’t know how to make it happen. Today’s guest, Gary Thomas, comes with practical insight to help you and...
info_outlineEvery couple begins married life together with a different background of traditions and habits, values and relationship patterns. https://growinghometogether.com/four-ways-opposites-attract-in-our-marriage/ can create conflict and stress or be used by God to draw you closer to him and each other. Today’s guests, Kagiso and Kate Motaung, know all about bridging differences in their cross-cultural marriage. They offer hope and great wisdom to help couples understand
- How God wrote Kate and Kagiso’s love story in South Africa
- The cultural differences they faced in their new life together, both in South Africa and the United States
- The value of a mentor couples for your marriage
- A challenge to look for beauty in the unfamiliar aspects of your life
- Why parenting demands a whole new level of adjustment and compromise
- How to communicate effectively about your differences
- How “meeting each other under God’s Word” changes everything
This episode—and Kagiso’s heartfelt prayer over YOUR marriage—is the encouragement you need to grow your love and understanding today.
Kagiso and Kate met and married in South Africa before relocating to the United States. They have been married since 2004 and have three children. Kate is the author of A Place to Land: A Story of Longing and Belonging and co-author of Influence: Building a Platform that Elevates Jesus (Not Me). She is the host of the online writing community Five Minute Friday, and is the owner of Refine Services, providing editing services to writers. Kagiso is trained as a pastor and teacher, and currently serves as a Realtor in West Michigan.
Connect with Kate on her website https://katemotaung.com/ and Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/kate.motaung to discover her books, services, and inspiring resources. To win your own copy of her beautiful memoir—including Kate and Kagiso’s love story—leave a comment with “Loving Our Differences” to be entered in our giveaway drawing.
God bless your marriage today!