A 12-Week Biblical Discipleship Pathway for Marriages — Facilitated by Your Church
Delight Your Marriage Academy equips churches to disciple marriages through Scripture, accountability, and practice — not just teaching.
For over a decade, we have watched God restore marriages that once felt hopeless. When even one spouse chooses humility, responsibility, and Christ-centered obedience, safety grows, trust rebuilds, and intimacy returns.
Now, churches can bring this same transformation into their own communities through a proven, church-based discipleship pathway for men and women.
Why the Delight Your Marriage Academy Exists
Behind closed doors, many Christian marriages are quietly unraveling, weakening not only families but the spiritual vitality of the church itself.
Scripture reminds us that when salt loses its savor, it no longer preserves (Matthew 5:13), and strained marriages ripple into parenting, worship, and ministry.
While churches faithfully teach truth, information alone does not produce transformation without accountability and lived obedience (James 1:22).
The Delight Your Marriage Academy bridges this discipleship gap by restoring biblical marriage through community, practice, and Christ-centered accountability.
What Makes This Different
Delight Your Marriage Academy is not another marriage class.
It is a structured discipleship system designed to help men and women apply God’s design for marriage in daily life.
Core Distinctives
Gender-Specific Tracks
Men and women are trained fully separately to create safety, honesty, and targeted growth.
Personal Responsibility First
Participants focus on their own obedience to Christ — not fixing their spouse.
Accountability-Driven Discipleship
Each participant has a same-gender accountability partner, turning biblical truth into lived obedience.
Biblically Faithful, Practically Direct
Intimacy, communication, repentance, forgiveness, and leadership are taught carefully, clearly, and in alignment with Scripture.
Intimacy Healing: Important Focus & Result
With 1 in 3 women having experienced sexual violence, 1 in 2 Christians dabbling (at least) in pornography, and 1 in 5 marriages sexless… churches need to be providing direct help in this area. We do and have seen WONDERFUL fruit in married, biblical healing & unity.
Built for the Local Church
Pastors retain spiritual authority; facilitators lead sessions without requiring counseling expertise.
What Churches Are Already Seeing
The fruit of this work is showing up quickly and tangibly in local churches:
“In just 4–5 weeks men are saying, ‘This is the best our marriage has ever been.’”
— Ministry Leader, Upstate New York
“A wife came up to my wife in tears because of how her marriage has changed.”
— Facilitator, Pennsylvania
“A non-believer thinks the content is just great, and his wife came up to me on Sunday thanking me for the change she sees in her husband.”
— Pastor, New York
These are not isolated stories. Churches report reduced marital conflict, renewed spiritual leadership in the home, and couples re-engaging in church life with hope.
How the Academy Works
Duration
12 weeks total
Format
- Weekly 60-minute video-based group sessions
- Separate men’s and women’s tracks
- Daily personal practices and check-ins
- Scripture-anchored digital and printable workbooks
Facilitation
- Led by trusted volunteers or ministry leaders
- No prior Delight Your Marriage experience required
- The Facilitator Guides, training, and ongoing support are included
- Built-in accountability ensures growth does not depend on facilitator experience, time-bandwidth, and expertise
What the Church Receives
Each church license includes:
- Complete 12-week video curriculum
- Digital and printable workbooks
- Facilitator guide and training
- Ongoing support and ministry coaching
- Flexibility to run men’s, women’s, or both tracks
- Ability to multiply groups as fruit grows
Pastors are freed from crisis-only care and empowered to lead proactive discipleship.
How does the investment work?
This isn’t a program you “purchase.”
It’s a transformation you facilitate.
Your church receives a year-long license to bring biblically grounded, practically proven marriage transformation to your community—again and again.
The investment is $1,500 per track (Men’s or Women’s) for a full year.
That license gives you:
- Unlimited participants throughout the year (no cap)
- The complete video-lesson curriculum, ready to deploy
- 12-weeks of curriculum, covering topics of
- Hope and faith in God’s transformation
- Forgiveness,
- Repentance,
- Communication,
- Fruits of the Spirit practical application,
- Intimacy healing: emotional, physical and spiritual,
- Biblical grounding for physical intimacy,
- Practicals of healing physical intimacy together,
- Habit formation,
- Marriage prioritization,
- Accountability,
- Vulnerability,
- Safety
- Digital workbook PDFs included, ready to print
- Promo materials, including
- 1-minute promo video
- Flyers
- Letters of invitation
- Facilitator Training
- Best Practices: interviews with successful alumni facilitators
- Practical Facilitator video training
- Facilitator Cheat Sheet
- The ability to run the training multiple times for different groups
Many churches tell us the real value isn’t in the materials—it’s in what changes for the couples who go through it: safer marriages, spiritually united, stronger communication, renewed hope, healed intimacy, and a discipleship pathway that actually sticks longterm.
Printed workbooks are available separately (approximately $15 per person).
A note on participant investment:
We’ve seen that for transformation to take root, people need to be personally invested.
For that reason, we recommend churches invite participants to contribute a modest amount (often around $100 per person). This small personal investment consistently leads to higher engagement, follow-through, and ownership of the process.
In most cases, participant contributions simply reimburse the church, allowing the training to be financially sustainable while keeping the focus where it belongs—on changed lives, not program costs.
Our Biblical Convictions
Delight Your Marriage affirms that men and women are equal in worth and dignity, yet distinct in their God-given roles within marriage (Ephesians 5:22–33; 1 Peter 3:1–7; Genesis 2).
These truths are taught gently, practically, and biblically — never heavy-handed.
An Invitation to people who want to see families healed
A healed marriage restores two people.
A healed marriage shapes the faith of children.
A healed marriage displays the gospel to a watching world.
When homes are renewed, churches are strengthened.
Next Steps
We would love to explore whether the Delight Your Marriage Academy is a fit for your church or ministry.
332-239-2379
office@delightyourmarriage.com
When you reach out, we can provide:
- A brief overview video
- Curriculum
- Sample workbook pages
- Facilitator and participant previews
- A clear path to launch
Direct testimonial comments from attendees:
1. “My wife and I have been separated for 6 months, and the same day as our DYM graduation, she chose to and began moving back into our matrimonial home… All praise be to God.”
2. “Before I started the course, I was experiencing a nearly sexless marriage… Porn was stealing the attention and arousal that my wife deserved… I’m 1.5 months into this journey and I promise never to go back! My wife has more initiated sex with me… I feel connected to her in a way that feels deeper and deeper each time.”
3. “Feeling cherished and safe for the first time in 23 years.”
4. “She feels much safer around me. I feel more confident and more planted.”
5. “My wife had been pretty much shut down emotionally before the program. She has now begun to open up, even provided apologies and is eagerly trying to make positive changes in our marriage.”
6. “Greater sense of peace in our home… quicker to ask for forgiveness… genuinely and intentionally listening to my wife… Daily prayer for my wife.”
7. “She has actively been initiating intimacy. Zero arguments in 3 months!”
8. “We now pray together every night… I’ve gotten much better at having no expectations and showing her I love her just for the sake of it.”
9. “Actually praying for God to help me forgive my wife… Rekindling playfulness and fun… practicing gratitude and prayer.”
10. “Half way through this program, that stopped and the weekends have been great… She’s much more appreciative… I’m very thankful for the program because our home is much happier and warm feeling.”
11. “We are not arguing near as much as before… Sexual intimacy has gotten better… I have been more intentional about making sure we are intimate more than before.”
12. “I’ve become a better listener and complimenter.”
13. “Talking through problems has been a lot better.”
14. “Realization that we can improve our marriage with more work.”
15. “Lead it successfully with 7 ladies!”
16. “I’ve learned to speak compliments out loud… Anytime an argument could have occurred we were able to calmly talk through it and still love each other through it.”
17. “My husband has been much more proactive around the house… We’ve started to pray for each other daily… My eyes have been opened to why intimacy is so important in marriage and for my husband.”
18. “I pray more for my husband now. That alone brings me a lot of peace and joy.”
19. “Becoming intentional in praying for my husband… view him with a softer heart… focus on the positives of our relationship.”
20. “Specifically being able to talk about intimacy in a better way. We are more open and I feel like I have the language to express what I want more.”
21. “Quicker to forgive and apologize for both of us.”
22. “My husband planned and asked me on a date… I feel more emotionally safe… able to be more vulnerable and more Mary than Martha.”
23. “The connection session… taking the end goal of sex off the table opened up more feedback so I can cherish her to a greater degree.”
24. “Sexual intimacy has leveled up a lot… communication and curbing knee-jerk reactions have been substantially positive… playfulness has created a more relaxed environment.”
25. “I would not have thought it was possible for bad arguments to fully cease with just one of us committing to not arguing… This has already enabled us to be much healthier.”
Call or Reach Out
332-239-2379
office@delightyourmarriage.com