Marriage Champions

Introduction and Background of Daniel Lancaster  0:00  Significance and Supernatural Nature of Marriage  6:03 Challenges Facing Marriages Today  12:20   Selfless Love and Spiritual Unity in Marriage  16:14  Men as Givers and Women as Receivers  25:39  Spiritual Headship and Leadership in Marriage  39:57 Husbands cling, are glued to wives  49:34 Husband isn't wife's pastor  54:14 The Role of Wives...

Background and Introduction (0:00) Journey to East Africa (1:14) Discipleship and Freedom in Christ Ministries (2:45) Discipleship Programs and Marriage in Uganda (5:51) Importance of Marriage (6:29) Freedom in Christ Ministries' Teachings (14:34) Identity and Discipleship (22:24) Seven Steps to Freedom (26:53) Marriage Course and Practical Examples (29:01) Personal Practices and Key Principles (5...

00:00 – Background: From politics to marriage ministry. 08:44 – Origins of Live the Life, statewide, Florida marriage organization.  Its vision.  Growth.  13:23 – State of Marriage in US. 15:35 – Major challenges facing couples today.  Communication.  Conflict.  19:36 – Adventures in Marriage course, skills-based curriculum. 24:38 – Start Smart course, premarital program. 29:59 – Community Marriag...

00:24 – Backgrounds.  How they met.  Journey to marriage ministry. 03:14 – Biggest challenges facing couples. 10:59 – Importance of marriage for children. 12:25 – Priorities and practices in a marriage, e.g. grace, dates nights, prayer times. 22:20 – Impact of pornography on marriages. Getting help. 28:44 – Today's youth culture.  Lack of marriage role models. Marriage and faith transmission. 33:3...

03:17 – John’s experience with unexpectantly getting into marriage ministry. 07:14 – Advice for starting a marriage ministry.  Know where your church is at. 12:12 – State of marriages in church.  Changing societal expectations for marriage. 15:34 – Marriage is a mechanism for discipleship.  Church teaches the why of marriage not just a process. 22:59 – The central unit of society and the church is...

00:24 – Background. Involvement with Retrouvaille. Divorce plans 02:27 – Overview of Retrouvaille program. Uniqueness of Retrouvaille.  Community of disciples. 11:49 – Secret sauce of Retrouvaille. 14:48 – History of Retrouvaille. Follow up. Core groups. 19:32 – Overview of weekend. 24:41 – The three A’s.  Affairs, Addictions, Abuse. 31:06 – Elements of a great marriage. 35:31 – Post weekend sessi...

00:21 – Background. Faith journey and impact on marriage. 06:59 – Investing in his marriage. 10:50 – Monthly marriage inventory meetings. 14:49 – Semi-annual couple retreats.  Prayer times. 16:41 – Responsibility for marriage.  Personal mentors.  Outside accountability. 19:56 – How to find a mentor. 22:01 – Marriage ministry in the church.  Foundational ministry in church. 28:33 – Involvement of s...

00:40 – Why marriage is important. Start of marriage ministry in church. 09:16 – Why marriage not priority in many churches.  10:40 – His background in learning marriage skills.    20:34 – Reason for writing book, Relational Map.  It’s main message.        32:27 – Sources of marital problems.  Approach to marital counseling. 37:16 – Keys to connectedness in a marriage. 42:29 – Repairing the marria...

00:30 – Background. Understanding backgrounds, temperament, dealing with conflict, and communication challenges. 05:38 – Forgiveness. Learning to apologize.  Honor one another in speech, healthy communication.  Practical steps to grow in unity – finances, soclal media accounts, vacations. 11:39 – Regular personal practices, e.g. pray as a couple, weekly date nights, have fun together. 15:38 – Impo...

00:44 – Introduction to Marriage Encounter.  Opposites attract. 08:16 – Origins of Marriage Encounter.  It came to Minnesota in 1971. 11:43 – Relationship and differences between Marriage Enrichment and Retrouvaille. 13:57 – Elements of Marriage Encounter weekend.  Role of Team Couples. 16:46 – Sharing personal stories not preaching.  Spiritual divorce. 22:30 – Parable of the Sower.  Sexuality.  F...

00:58 – Background. How he got into marriage research. State of marriage in US.  Good news and bad news.  Impact of cohabitation. 05:15 – How did we got to this point.  Secularism.  Men floundering.  Expressive individualism.  Bad government policies. 07:10 – Growing skepticism and negativism towards marriage in recent years.  Growing partisan divide. 08:39 – Benefits of marriage for men and women...

00:30 – Passion for discipleship and impacting the community. Impact schools by impacting families.  Beautiful Marriage Initiative. https://www.beautifulmarriages.org/ 05:39 – So many issues in society are impacted by marriage and family brokenness.  Example of God's love for us is shown by marriage. 07:24 – Ministry in Good Shephard - date nights, Re|engage, relational health initiatives for...

00:00 – Background. Team K.  Family Identity. Outpost of Kingdom.  04:53 – Origins of everyday discipleship. Seeing the church overseas like in book of Acts and comparing to traditional church in US. 07:17 – Discipleship: Process of moving from unbelief to belief in light of Gospel in every area of life.  Transformation of all areas of life.  Doesn't happen for two hours on Sunday morning. 10:...

00:28 – Background. PhD in psychology. Positive personal experience of marriage. Book, His Needs, Her Needs originated in a Sunday school class. 11:07 – Learned how to help couples fall in love.  In love couples don’t get divorced. 16:44 – Successful marriage counselors:  Have program which works.  Able to motivate couple to take action. Handle couples' emotional reactions. 19:56 – Elements of...

00:17 – Family Background.  Mission of C12.  Network of Christian CEOs, Business owners around the world. 03:47 – Business as a mission, a ministry.  Biblical view of business, work. 06:03 – 85% of Christian business leaders haven't integrated faith and work.  Workplace is unique place, opportunity to impact people's lives.  08:43 - Marriage and family challenges CEOs and business owners f...

00:00 – Background. Faith.  Family.  Involvement with marriage and men's discipleship groups. 04:26 – Things he learned from his own marriage.  Importance of communication, and listening. Importance of a supportive environment for marriage. 06:46 – Purpose of marriage. Vocation. Gift. Calling. 09:26 – Key ingredients of a successful marriage. Communication is key.  Difference between hearing a...

00:25 – Background. Childhood exposure to pornography.  Addiction. Broken people bring problems into marriage. 03:41 – Experience with pornography addiction.  Pornography symptomatic of underlying problem.  Family problems. 13:04 – Pornography as addiction and coping mechanism. 14:50 – Supernatural encounters with Jesus.  Journey out of pornography addiction.   27:32 – Experience with inner healin...

• 00:00 – Background. Education. Nuclear physics. Computer science. Counseling. Theology. • 03:44 – Marriage ministry. Counseling degree. Struggles in own marriage. • 05:40 – Reasons for marriage. First human need – not being alone. • 08:42 – Intimacy therapy. Not being alone from God and others. Known and being known. • 11:09 – Different counseling models. Cognitive/behavioral. Emotional Focused...

01:06 – Background.  Pastor.  Interest in marriage.  Speaking around the world on marriage. 05:07 – Book, Handing Out Life .  Three key principles of relationships:  self sacrifice, unconditional commitment, and physical care.    12:53 – Priority of relationships: God, spouse, family, church, and others.  Thumbs up.  Fingers and hand as image of relational priorities.      21:23 – Key daily practi...

00:27 – Background. 45 years of youth leadership work. Principles and practices learned. 11:46 – Importance of and unique role grandparents play in lives of grandchildren.  Deut. 4:9.  Challenges of today's youth culture. 17:06 – What's lost when grandparents don't influence their grandchildren.  Important role grandparents play in the community. 21:37 – Opportunities to help support t...

0:24 – Personal story. Struggles in first year of marriage. Didn't invest in marriage. Jesus became priority in their lives.  04:39 – What is grace? God's unmerited favor. Ongoing blessing and good God gives us.  05:34 – What a grace marriage looks like.  Love one another as Jesus loves us. Different paradigm from a performance based marriage.    09:16 – Strengthen marriage for future chal...

00:48:   Background - Becoming a Christian.  Established Family Life in 1976.  Weekend to Remember Conferences - sharing biblical blueprint for marriage with thousands each year. 11:08:   State of marriage today. Marriage falling out of favor in culture.  Evidenced by postponement of marriage, cohabitation, and divorce culture. 17:50:   Marriage in church - low priority.  Reasons why?  Spiritual b...

00:29 – Rock climbing as a metaphor for Christian discipleship.  02:51 – Path to becoming a pastor and pastoring for 40 years.  Experiencing various ministry opportunities.  Working with well-known church growth leader, Frank Tillapaugh.   09:58 – Experience speaking at Family Life’s Weekend to Remember events - 85 retreats in over 20 years.   12:28 – Experience with premarital education.  Growth...

00:02 – Background – Career as NFL quarterback. Faith experience.  Impact of father and others on his life.  Marriage experience.  14:43 – Leaving NFL career.  Getting into marriage and family ministry. 20:10 – Foundation of marriage.  His marriage is example of very different, strong willed individuals being a team. 25:10 – Nature and purpose of marriage.  Reflect God's nature.  Helps conform...

00:21 – Background - business, church, and consulting. 03:36 – Start of marriage work. Role models. 10:17 – Premarital counseling is sweet spot for marriage work. Difference between mentoring, coaching, and counseling couples. 12:22 – Vision for helping premarital couples. Marriage is second most important decision one will ever make. 14:28 – Often key problems in struggling marriages - inability...