It's All About Relationships
It's All About Relationships
Willie Batson & Jere Vincent
Strong, healthy and meaningful relationships are incredibly important and can bring great joy and fulfillment into our lives. Yet, keeping those bonds of love and commitment solid isn’t always easy. Welcome to, "It’s all about Relationships,” with Willie Batson and Jere Vincent, a program about building relationships with a Christ-centered approach. Together, Willie and Jere have decades of combined expert insights into how relationships thrive and endure through challenging times.
For Better and Worse 3 / Disillusionment & Disappointment In A Relationship
All relationships experience challenges that may seem to get worse rather than better. It doesn’t have to be that way. It helps to understand the challenges and determine to fight for your relationship while facing the challenges. Willie & Jere have identified several critical challenges and addressed them in Season 2 of their podcast. The series is called “For Better and For Worse.” In this third episode, they discuss what it means to have a disappointing marriage, whether it means the end of the relationship, and whether there is no hope for a better future.
Jan 14, 2022
49 min
For Better and Worse 2 / Why is Our Relationship So Hard?
All relationships experience challenges that may seem to get worse rather than better. It doesn’t have to be that way. It helps to understand the challenges and determine to fight for your relationship while facing the challenges. Willie & Jere have identified several critical challenges and addressed them in Season 2 of their podcast. The series is called “For Better and For Worse.” In this second episode, they discuss some common challenges that long-term marriages may confront including the warning signs of a love that is dying.
Jan 7, 2022
49 min
A Christmas Message
Jere Vincent shares a special Christmas message as part of Season Two’s focus on “For Better and for Worse.”
Dec 21, 2021
11 min
For Better and Worse 1 / Taking a Truce in Relationships
All relationships experience challenges that may seem to get worse rather than better. It doesn’t have to be that way. It helps to understand the challenges and determine to fight for your relationship while facing the challenges. Willie & Jere have identified several critical challenges and addressed them in Season 2 of their podcast. The series is called “For Better and For Worse.” In this first episode, they discuss an article about taking a truce when things get heated. 
Dec 17, 2021
59 min
Fresh Start 4 / Be Humble
Every marriage relationship can use a fresh start – a process of improving, repairing, or making it more successful. A great hindrance to friendship in a marriage is pride—self-confident, self-exalting, self-protecting pride. Pride is perhaps the most deceptive, pervasive, and multifaceted form of sin, and it plays a central role in virtually all relationship missteps.  In this fourth episode of their Fresh Start series, Willie and Jere talk about how the principle of humility is crucial to a strong Christian marriage. And it may be the most important ingredient for a fresh start in your marriage.
Nov 19, 2021
50 min
Fresh Start 3 / Have Fun
Every marriage relationship can use a fresh start – a process of improving, repairing, or making it more successful. In far too many marriages, play has been thrown out the window and replaced with serious adult responsibilities like careers, raising children, caring for elderly parents, household chores, and community & church commitments.  In this third episode of their Fresh Start series, Willie and Jere talk about how the more you invest in fun and friendship, the happier the relationship will get over time.  The correlation between fun and marital happiness is high and significant.**Resources mentioned in this episode:Sheet Music by Kevin Leman -- https://www.amazon.com/Sheet-Music-Uncovering-Intimacy-Marriage/dp/0842360247$10 Great Dates: Connecting Love, Marriage, and Fun on a Budget by Peter & Heather Larson and David & Claudia Arp -- https://www.amazon.com/10-Great-Dates-Connecting-Marriage/dp/0764211358/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1636661191&sr=1-7
Nov 12, 2021
51 min
Fresh Start 2 / Stay Connected
Every marriage relationship can use a fresh start – a process of improving, repairing, or making it more successful. Being over-committed and under-connected are signs of a marriage in need of a fresh start. In this second episode of the Fresh Start series, Willie and Jere talk about how couples can avoid the inevitable marital drift that can occur in every marriage. 
Nov 5, 2021
43 min
Fresh Start 1 / Be Nice
Every marriage relationship can use a fresh start – a process of improving, repairing, or making it more successful. In this episode, Willie and Jere discuss how a key to a better marriage is to make small gestures of kindness towards your spouse and make them often. 
Oct 25, 2021
46 min