01:23  Work as a pastor.  Discernment counseling in churches.

05:36  Journey to marriage ministry - personal marriage, experience in church.

05:55  Building a strong church by strengthening marriages and families.  Why marriage isn't a priority in many churches.  Body of Christ is last hope for marriage.

23:56  Condition of marriage in churches and way forward.  Evangelism and attractiveness of healthy marriages.

35:50  Importance of transparency and honesty in churches.

38:31  Role of marriage and family ministry in churches.  Priority Scripture places on marriage and family.  Myth of soulmates.

47:02  Tim Keller's marriage teaching and church's emphasis on marriage.  Role of relational ministry in our churches.

51:01  Steps churches can take to assess marriage and family needs and address them.  Establish marriage ministry team.

59:05  Impact of Covid and changing way we do church.  People looking for deeper relational connection.

1:04:37  Teaching children about marriage, relationships, and identity.

1:11:57  Premarital education - start before engagement.  Teaching children about marriage.  Resources.

1:17:16  Marriage enrichment - things to do.

1:22:11  Prerequisites for being Marriage Mentors/Champions.

1:30:55  Friends First Responders - Helping hurting marriages. 

1:36:51  Finding resources on YouTube, Internet.  Good books.

1:41:41 Contacting Russ Berg:  www.russberg.org

00:57  Book wrote with father, Dr. Bill Harley - Let's Get Growing, Christian!

06:30  Background:  wife, mother, PhD in educational psychology, researcher, author, marriage counselor, creator of Four Gifts of Love Course.

15:42  Challenges facing marriages today:  Screwtape Letters and distractions.  

28:51  The Four Gifts of Love:  Romantic love, long lasting marriage. 

32:48  Romantic love:  Litmus test, barometer.  Tells where a couple is at in their relationship.  Sign of exceptional care.

33:42   Goal of Four Gifts of Love Course: Passion for God and romantic love with spouse.  

38:20  Best friendship and marriage.

40:13  What are the Four Gifts of Love:  Care, protection, honesty, and time.

45:00  Extraordinary care:  Defining and meeting emotional needs.

50:05  Gift of protection:  Avoid being source of unhappiness.

52:53  Gift of honesty.

53:34  Gift of time:  15 hours a week of undivided attention.

57:08  Warning sign of marriage problems:  Lack of time spent together.

1:00:13  What to do when one person wants to save the marriage and other spouse is indifferent.

1:04:07  Impact of stopping love busters.

1:09:13  Being a Marriage Champion.  What should a person do?

1:14:54  Finding out more about Four Gifts of Love Course.

1:17:40  Goal of Four Gifts of Love Course:  Oneness.

00:36  Background and Interest in marriage.

14:07  Awakening a vision for strengthening marriages.  Key elements, practices of strong marriages - friendship, presence of Holy Spirit, Bible.

19:07  Creation of five week "Marriage in Christ" seminar.

24:05  Example of devotion time with spouse includes prayer, scripture, sharing.

27:09  Picture of marriage in Bible - covenant love, icon, image of God.

31:37  Key habits for strengthening marriages.  Deepen conversation with spouse.

36:51  Awareness of Holy Spirit at work in relationship, prayer, daily life.

48:21  Family as the domestic church:  relationship of love, service, and prayer.

54:16  Family is center for evangelism and discipleship.

55:41  Marriage ministry in local church, small groups.

1:05:36  Importance of prayer in marriage.

1:09:59  Romance, theology of the body, Song of Songs

1:15:37  Marriage in Christ seminar - five weeks, priorities, Holy Spirit, practices.

1:23:00  Biblical meditations on marriage - Genesis through Revelation.

Episode #3 - Being an Effective Listener, Levels of Listening, Listening with the Heart, Understanding and Engaging Emotions, Role of Emotions, Marriage Intimacy through Trust and Openness

01:38  Personal marriage journey, joys and sorrows.

12:30  Understanding what we contribute to the pain in our marriages.

16:37  Learning to be an effective listener.  Levels of listening.

24:40  Listening with the heart.  Understanding and engaging emotions.

29:42  Emotional fluency.  Processing emotions like anger.

33:52  Resources for dealing with anger.  Emotional maturity.  Role of emotions.  Examples.

43:52  Managing or suppressing emotions.

45:29  Practical steps for dealing with emotions.

50:40  The marriage relationship.  Getting to intimacy through trust and vulnerability.

57:35  Developing trust in marriage.

1:02:05  Creating vulnerability in marriage.  

1:04:02  Building connection in marriage; things to do.

1:09:28  How affairs arise in a marriage.

1:11:12  How trust, connection, and intimacy in marriage mirror our relationship with God.

1:19:54  Relationship with God - win His approval or know His deep love for us.

Episode #2 - Online Marriage Mentor Training, Dealing with Emotions, Six Steps to Improve Marriage Satisfaction, Starting a Marriage Ministry in a Church 

00:59  Background in business and interest in marriage ministry.

03:38  Lessons learned from own marriage challenges:  communication, emotions, etc.

15:12  Getting third party help.  Dealing with emotions.

19:54  Leaning in and leaning out spouses.

22:00  Six steps to improving marriage satisfaction.

26:30  Learning to listen to emotions.

31:15  Understanding internal triggers and ways we were raised.

35:08  Understanding conflict patterns.

36:59  Learning to process resentment.

39:39  Building intimacy in marriage.

41:02  Marriage mentors and champions.  Who are they and what are they like?

48:56  Value of couples mentoring couples.

50:43  Creating Connected Marriage program; its tools and concepts.

56:52  10 Hour Course: Six Key Steps.

58:11  Working with marriages in a megachurch and a smaller church.

1:04:03  Challenge of getting people in struggling marriages to seek help.

1:08:43  Things to consider when starting a marriage ministry in a church.

1:10:49  Encouraging transparency and openness in marriage in churches.

1:15:00  Contact info for Connected Marriage and training marriage mentors.

Episode #1 - Training up Marriage Mentors, Friends First Responders, Discernment Counseling, Keys to a Successful Marriage, Three Questions to Ask to Save a Marriage 

01:37  Background studying and teaching Hebrew.

08:00  Created marriage ministry while pastoring a church.

09:44  Setting up marriage ministry utilizing lay leaders in church.

10:56  Use and benefit of premarital diagnostic tools - find issues and where to start.

20:23  Tool for dealing with depression by David Burns.

21:50  State of marriage ministry and counseling in the local church.

25:15  Raising up marriage champions in churches.

30:09  Impact of churches with marriage saving reputations in community.

34:14  Ambassadors of Hope Program - Marriage Champions.

37:19  Communication dates with spouse and children.

43:29  Three questions to ask to save a marriage.

48:03  Friends First responder tool for helping marriages of friends and family.

53:12  Soft and hard reasons for divorce.

58:26  Discernment counseling tool for church leaders and professionals.

1:02:33  Keys to a successful marriage - grace and forgiveness.

1:06:59  Drifting away from spouse - answers, solutions.

1:13:08  Who is and how to become a Marriage Champion?

1:16:47  Example of a Marriage Champion in NFL.

1:18:34  Helpful marriage resources and authors.

1:19:44  Contac info for Hope for the Hurting Home.

1:20:14  Prospects for marriage ministry in the future.