Biblical Resources for Stronger Marriages & Healthy Relationships
Practical tools to help you grow closer to God—and closer to each other.
At Inspiring Marriages, we believe strong relationships are built intentionally.
Whether you’ve been married for decades, you’re trying to reconnect with your spouse, or you’re single and preparing for a future relationship, we’ve created practical, biblical resources to help you take your next step.
Some are completely free. Others are books and guided resources designed to take you deeper.
You don’t have to do everything at once.
Find the resource that meets you where you are—and start there.
Jeff & Teresa Fields
Inspiring Marriages
God designed husband and wife to be friends for life.
Books & Guided Marriage Resources
Ready to Go Deeper?
Our books and guided marriage resources are designed to help couples understand the patterns shaping their relationship and then put biblical principles into practice in everyday life.
You’re Not Losing Love… You’re Losing Time
How Christian Couples Drift Apart—and How to Rebuild Connection One Moment at a Time
You can deeply love your spouse and still slowly drift apart.
Work, children, ministry, responsibilities, phones, exhaustion—even good things—can gradually consume the time and attention your marriage once received.
You’re Not Losing Love… You’re Losing Time helps couples recognize the patterns that create distance and shows how friendship, communication, emotional intimacy, spiritual connection, and intentional time can be rebuilt.
You don’t lose a marriage all at once. And you don’t rebuild one all at once either. You rebuild it one moment at a time.
30 Days to Rebuild Your Friendship
Simple Daily Habits That Bring Couples Back Together
Knowing you need to reconnect is one thing. Knowing what to do tonight is another.
30 Days to Rebuild Your Friendship is a guided marriage resource that gives husbands and wives a simple way to intentionally reconnect every day.
Each day includes Scripture, a practical marriage principle, an Around Our Kitchen Table conversation from us, questions to discuss together, personal reflection, a practical challenge, and prayer.
Over 30 days, you’ll work through reopening conversation, building emotional safety, working through challenges, and dreaming about your future together.
These Two Resources Work Beautifully Together
You’re Not Losing Love… You’re Losing Time helps you understand why couples drift and how connection can be restored.
30 Days to Rebuild Your Friendship helps you begin putting those principles into practice—one day at a time.
Not Sure Where to Start?
You don’t have to figure out which resource you need. Start with what sounds most like your marriage right now.
❤️ “We love each other, but we don’t feel as close anymore.”
Start with From Lonely to Best Friends Again.
💬 “We need to talk about more than schedules and responsibilities.”
Start with 100 Conversation Starters for Christian Couples.
⏰ “Everything else seems to get our best time.”
Start with the Redeem Your Time Marriage Audit.
🙏 “We want to grow spiritually together.”
Start with the 90-Day Bible Reading Plan for Couples.
🤝 “We need to strengthen trust and transparency.”
Start with the Christian Marriage Transparency Pact.
🌿 “There’s hurt we need to work through.”
Start with the 7-Day Forgiveness & Understanding Devotional.
😊 “We just need to have some fun together again!”
Start with Date Ideas for Christian Couples.
Not married yet?
If you’re single, dating, courting, or considering engagement, we’ve created a separate collection to help you build wisely from friendship toward marriage.
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Free Marriage Resources
Practical Tools You Can Start Using Today
You don’t need another resource that sits unopened in a downloads folder.
These free tools are designed to help you do something together—have a conversation, evaluate your priorities, pray, laugh, reconnect, or take one intentional step toward each other.
Redeem Your Time Marriage Audit
Where Is Your Time Really Going?
Take an honest look at where your 168 hours each week are going, identify common time leaks, and discover practical ways to give your marriage the time and attention it deserves.
From Lonely to Best Friends Again
A 7-Day Devotional for Christian Couples
Seven days of Scripture, conversation, prayer, and practical steps designed to help you close the distance and begin rediscovering your friendship.
100 Conversation Starters for Christian Couples
Meaningful Questions to Deepen Friendship, Faith & Connection
Move beyond schedules, children, bills, and responsibilities with questions designed to help you laugh, remember, dream, and understand each other more deeply.
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90-Day Bible Reading Plan for Couples
Grow Closer to God—and to Each Other
A simple 90-day rhythm for reading Scripture together, talking about what you’re learning, and strengthening the spiritual foundation of your marriage.
Christian Marriage Transparency Pact
Build Trust Through Openness and Honesty
Have important conversations about transparency, accountability, technology, finances, communication, and the areas where secrecy can quietly create distance.
7-Day Forgiveness & Understanding Devotional
Move Toward Each Other Instead of Away
Explore forgiveness, grace, understanding, communication, and healing through seven days of Scripture, reflection, conversation, and prayer.
Date Ideas for Christian Couples
Make Time for Fun Again
Step away from everyday responsibilities and rediscover the fun of simply being together with practical date ideas for different budgets, personalities, and seasons of marriage.
Singles, Dating & Courtship Resources
Build the Friendship Before You Build the Marriage
Healthy marriages don’t begin at the altar.
Long before a couple says “I do,” there are important questions to ask, character to observe, friendships to build, and decisions to make.
We’ve created five free relationship tools to help singles and couples move thoughtfully from friendship toward courtship, marriage, and lifelong commitment.
You don’t have to use all five at once. In fact, they’re designed to meet you at different stages of the journey.
Tool #1 — Friendship Assessment Checklist
Is There a Strong Friendship Beneath the Attraction?
Romantic feelings matter, but feelings alone don’t tell you whether you’ve developed the kind of friendship that can support a lifelong relationship.
This assessment helps you look at communication, character, trust, spiritual compatibility, mutual respect, and the quality of the friendship you’re building.
Start here if you’re wondering whether a friendship has the foundation to become something more.
Tool #2 — 50+ Questions to Discuss Before Courtship or Marriage
Important Conversations Before You Move Forward
Some conversations are too important to postpone until after the wedding.
These questions help you talk honestly about faith, family, finances, expectations, children, communication, calling, boundaries, conflict, and the kind of life you hope to build.
The goal isn’t to produce all the “right” answers.
It’s to discover whether you can talk honestly about the things that matter.
Tool #3 — Courtship Readiness Assessment
Are We Ready to Move From Friendship to Courtship?
Courtship shouldn’t simply be the next step because two people have been spending a lot of time together.
It should be an intentional decision.
This assessment helps you consider whether you’ve had enough time to observe character, whether you’re spiritually and emotionally prepared, whether important questions have been discussed, and whether moving toward marriage is a realistic possibility.
Courtship should have direction—not simply momentum.
Tool #4 — Red Flags & Green Flags
What Should You Be Paying Attention To?
Attraction can make it easy to notice someone’s strengths—and overlook things that deserve closer attention.
This resource helps you identify both green flags worth valuing and red flags that shouldn’t be ignored as you evaluate character, faith, communication, relationships, boundaries, responsibility, and patterns of behavior.
The goal isn’t to find a perfect person.
It’s to learn to recognize healthy character.
Tool #5 — Are We Ready for Engagement?
Important Questions Before You Say “Yes”
Engagement isn’t simply the next stage of a serious relationship.
It’s preparation for marriage.
This assessment helps couples evaluate whether they’ve addressed the spiritual, relational, practical, family, and financial realities that will shape life after the wedding.
It’s designed to help you ask an important question before choosing a ring or setting a date:
Are we actually prepared to become husband and wife?
A Natural Progression
These five resources can also be used as a pathway:
FRIENDSHIP
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Friendship Assessment Checklist
CONVERSATION
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50+ Questions to Discuss Before Courtship or Marriage
COURTSHIP
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Courtship Readiness Assessment
DISCERNMENT
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Red Flags & Green Flags
ENGAGEMENT
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Are We Ready for Engagement?
Each step has a different purpose.
The goal isn’t to rush from one stage to another.
The goal is to make wise decisions while allowing enough time to truly know one another.
Coming Soon: From Friendship to Courtship
Why Friendship Is the Foundation of Every Healthy Marriage
Coming soon from Inspiring Marriages, From Friendship to Courtship is written specifically for singles, dating couples, and young adults who want to approach relationships with wisdom and intentionality.
From Friendship to Courtship explores friendship, character, spiritual preparation, discernment, family and mentors, red and green flags, boundaries, finances, and the transition from friendship into intentional courtship.
This message is deeply personal to us.
Before our first date, we had already been friends for more than two and a half years.
That friendship gave us time to observe each other’s character before romance changed the relationship.
More than 35 years later, we still believe that friendship is one of the greatest foundations a husband and wife can bring into marriage.
[COMING SOON]
Watch & Listen
Join the Conversation With Us
Resources are helpful—but sometimes you simply need someone to sit down with you and talk about marriage.
That’s what we want our videos and podcast to feel like.
Inspiring Marriages on YouTube
Practical, biblical conversations about friendship, communication, emotional intimacy, spiritual connection, intentional time, forgiveness, and the everyday choices that shape a marriage.
The Inspiring Marriages Podcast
Pull up a chair and join us for longer conversations about marriage, friendship, faith, communication, and what we’ve learned through more than three decades together.
About Jeff & Teresa
We’re Jeff and Teresa Fields, founders of Inspiring Marriages.
Before we became husband and wife, we were friends. That friendship became the foundation of our marriage.
Through more than 35 years together, we’ve learned that strong marriages aren’t built through a handful of spectacular moments.
They’re built through thousands of ordinary ones.
Conversations around the kitchen table. Praying together. Working through disagreements. Forgiving. Laughing. Dreaming. Showing affection. Walking through difficult seasons. And continuing to choose each other when life gets busy.
We created Inspiring Marriages to help couples move beyond simply staying married and intentionally build the friendship, intimacy, spiritual connection, and shared purpose God designed marriage to contain.
God designed husband and wife to be friends for life.
Your Next Step Doesn’t Have to Be a Big One
You don’t have to change everything today.
If you’re married, have one meaningful conversation. Spend thirty intentional minutes together. Pray together. Plan a date. Put the phones away.
If you’re single or in a relationship, don’t feel pressure to rush toward the next stage. Take the time to build friendship, observe character, ask meaningful questions, seek wise counsel, and pray.
Whatever season you’re in, take one intentional step today.
Because healthy relationships aren’t built in a single moment.
They’re built through small, intentional choices repeated over time.
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Jeff & Teresa Fields
Inspiring Marriages
God designed husband and wife to be friends for life.