Category Archives: Marriage
Annual Maintenance Check: Part 14 – Affair Proofing
April 26, 2020 Mike Meyers HomeFront
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Discussion Questions
- Which of these points had the most impact in your mind: the soil of an affair, the three phases, or the affair proofing steps?
- How have you seen this play out in your experience (personally or observed)?
- Have you discussed boundary setting? If so, what boundaries have you created that might be helpful to others?
- Has this talk helped you identify any vulnerabilities in your defenses? Explain.
Annual Maintenance Check: Part 13 – Cleared for Takeoff – Intimacy in Marriage
April 19, 2020 Mike Meyers HomeFront
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Discussion Questions
- Wife/husband do you understand the three points Mike & Patricia shared that wives/husbands need to know? (Points listed below) What question do you have about these for your husband/wife that might help you understand?
- Which of these ideas is most difficult for you to embrace?
- What has been your experience with these truths in your marriage?
Three Things Husband/Wives Need to Know and Embrace
For the husbands
- Be a companion not a hookup.
- Cherish without ulterior motives.
- Use your words.
For the wives
- Value sex as a vital component, not an accessory.
- Your husband feels emotionally close through physical closeness.
- We like to be pursued sometimes as well.
Annual Maintenance Check: Part 12 – Parenting from the Same Page
April 5, 2020 Mike Meyers HomeFront
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Discussion Questions
- What would a “vision” for parenting include? What words would you use to describe the goal?
- Parents, what is, or was, your area of greatest disagreement when it comes to parenting? How have you worked those out?
- What are some principles for parenting, in your view?
- How does/could viewing your role as disciplemaker change your approach to parenting?
Annual Maintenance Check: Part 11 – Marriage on Purpose
March 27, 2020 Mike Meyers HomeFront
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Discussion Questions
- What are some unique characteristics of your marriage that the Lord might use?
- How are you, or could you be, serving Christ together?
- What are you, or can you be, doing as a couple to give of yourselves to friends, extended family, neighbors, and other members of the larger community?
- How do you think an outward focused marriage can benefit your relationship?
Annual Maintenance Check: Part 10 – You Gotta Have Faith
March 21, 2020 Mike Meyers HomeFront
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Discussion Questions
- Are we on the same page on spiritual matters (prayer, giving of time, talents, or treasure, church attendance, community connectedness, time in the Word, etc)?
- Ask your spouse; how can I encourage you in your relationship with the LORD?
- How can we abide in Christ together? In what ways can we blend our spiritual love languages*, and learn new languages?*Song, acts of service, nature, solitude, ritual/tradition, study, giving/gratitude
Annual Maintenance Check: Part 9 – Crisis Management – Conflict in Marriage
February 23, 2020 Mike Meyers HomeFront
Discussion Questions
- What do you fight about? Why? How often? What is the typical outcome?
- How have you, or could you, employ the “conflict defusers” we heard about today?
- What other strategies or principles have helped you navigate conflict?
Annual Maintenance Check: Part 8 – Communication – Speaking in Strange Tongues
February 16, 2020 Mike Meyers HomeFront
Discussion Questions
- How are you different in your communication style? How have these differences shaped your relationship, for better or worse?
- How could you, or have you, applied some of today’s principles to your communication?
- How would you like your spouse to communicate with you?
- What are one or two communication skills you’d like to improve at?
Annual Maintenance Check: Part 7 – Wonderfully Made – Navigating Personality Differences
February 9, 2020 Mike Meyers HomeFront
Discussion Questions
- Do you think you have a good understanding of your spouse’s strengths, weaknesses, desires, and aspirations? If yes, how has this helped? If not, how has this hurt?
- How can personality styles can conflict or complement, in finances, child-rearing, managing the home, spiritual matters, vacation planning, family relationships?
- Why were you attracted to one another in the first place? What do you like and admire most about each other?
Annual Maintenance Check: Part 6 – Your Greatest Enemy – Selfishness
February 2, 2020 Mike Meyers. HomeFront
Discussion Questions
- Read Philippians 2:1-18. Is this reality reflected in increasing measure in your home?
- In what specific ways have you either acted or thought selfishly recently?
- Share a time that selfishness caused serious turbulence, or a near crash in your marriage?
- What things do you do to kill off selfishness in yourself and its effects on your marriage?
Annual Maintenance Check: Part 5 – Do You Have a Flight Plan?
January 19, 2020 Mike Meyers HomeFront
Discussion Questions
- How would you want others to describe your marriage? What words would you desire to hear?
- Are you floating through married life without direction, or have you considered that God has uniquely joined the two of you for a specific purpose?
- How might having a “flight plan” for your marriage help you grow together, provide clarity and tenacity, and give you strength against temptation as a couple?
