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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 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 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?
Annual Maintenance Check: Part 2 – Grace and the Gospel in Covenant Marriage
November 10, 2019 Mike Meyers HomeFront
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- What was your wedding ceremony like?
- What do you remember from your vows? Were yours traditional, or did you do something original?
- What is one take away you had from today’s talk?
- How is your “airframe”? How does considering your marriage as a covenant, “exchange of persons” change your perspective?
- Looking back at what grace does, how have you experienced grace with your spouse? Do you desire to be an agent of grace in your marriage? What keeps you from living in that?
