Tony Cummings spoke to the Tennessee-based duo who've gone through marriage and remarriage, OUT OF THE DUST

"That's an amazing picture; that's an amazing prodigal kind of story. We also know it doesn't always happen so we have to hold in tension the fact that sin still breaks things in this world and sometimes it breaks marriages but that's not above God's pay grade to redeem and restore the people who have fallen victim to that sin. It's all about the personal journey. Most of the time it's one person in the relationship that has checked out. To say to the person who was checked in oops, sorry, you did all that you could, hey, just keep holding on, of course we want to say that because God can do miracles but God can also work in the pain, in the suffering, in the severance of that relationship as well."

Tony: Most people don't work with their wives and have that close proximity day in day out, week in week out. You've chosen not only to re-marry but to work together. That must be a very exhausting thing to tour together. Does that mean that you have more than your fair share of arguments?

Steph: "God redeemed a lot when we got remarried. Chris and I are so opposite in so many ways. Any personality test you take we are always on opposite extremes. That was a huge point of contention in our first marriage, as we call it. Ever since being redeemed and having this new perspective of marriage we have seen how God has taken our differences and used them so beautifully together. My weaknesses are his strengths, and my strengths are where he struggles. Even just doing Out Of The Dust, he is the dreamer, the idealist. He is so creative, he carries the weight of the songwriting where I am gifted with the logistics and the administration and the booking and all of that. It works so well together. We genuinely do enjoy being on the road together and we have two young kids and they are with us most of the time. That's added to it. But I think the struggle that we're still trying to balance is the fact that our work is so integrated into our lives. Work needs to be out of our brains for a little while for us to practise Sabbath. We're still trying to figure out that line of how to balance work and life. So far I think we've done an okay job with that. We do love what we get to do and get to call it ministry and music together. It's such a gift. But for sure there are challenges with balancing out - we don't need to bring work into everything we do."

Tony: Do you agree with a statement I've occasionally quoted: those who pray together stay together?

Steph: "Absolutely. Couldn't say it any better."