Life in Relationship
Writer, licensed clinical social worker, and theologian, Heidi Goehmann, produces resources that advocate for mental health and genuine relationships. She loves her family, post it notes, Jesus, adventure, Star Wars, Star Trek, and new ideas…not necessarily in that order.
- Update frequency
- every 13 days
- Average duration
- 21 minutes
- Episodes
- 102
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
Always Growing: Love and Respect
Love and Respect Got to Do with It Article: https://blog.cph.org/read/everyday-faith/whats-love-and-respect-got-to-do-with-it
Read Ephesians 4:32 and Ephesians 5:21. How do each verse impact the whol…
Always Growing: Treasuring Up
Read Luke 2:16-19
What kinds of things do you think Mary was pondering or treasuring up?
What kinds of things in marriages, in general, are helpful to “treasure up”?
Wha…
Always Growing: When Your Spouse Gets on Your Nerves
What to Do When Your Spouse Gets on Your Nerves
How do kindness and a sense of humor help when talking about difficult things or prickly things in marriage?
Read Matthew 7:3-5. What kinds of thi…
Always Growing: Love & Honor Your Mother-in-Law
Love & Honor Your Mother-in-Law
How does our culture represent mother-in-laws?
Read Genesis 2:24-25. Brainstorm any relationships impacted by leaving and cleaving and what impacts you see in your …
Always Growing: When Contempt Threatens
Describe contempt in your own words. Which aspects of contempt stick out to you the most?
What does respect do for a marriage?
Consider the list of concrete ways contempt…
Always Growing: Will You Fight for Me?
What do you each remember most about your wedding?
In what ways do you fight for one another in your marriage?
How is forgiveness part of fighting for one another in marri…
Always Growing: 3 Places to Never Argue
Questions:
Where have you argued and it hasn’t gone well?
When and how have you experienced struggles in arguing in any of the three places:
Riding in the car
In the be…
Always Growing: A Marriage that Bends
Questions:
What magic answers are out there for marriage? What magic answers do you think people utilize to get to marriage growth?
How can 1st Corinthians 8:1 inform our mar…
Always Growing: Repair Attempts
Questions:
What topics of things poke at us and start a negative slide or cycle in arguments?
How do you usually switch gears or change focuses when you are having an ar…
Always Growing: Grouchiness in Marriage
Questions:
What makes you grouchy? Especially in marriage, keeping a household, and family life?
How does the law motivate in marriage, or does it?
How does the gospel …
Always Growing: Marriage Rockstars
Who are Your Marriage Rockstars?
Who do we look to in our culture(s) or as couples to tell us what marriage should look like or be like?
Read John 6:67-68. Where does God tell us to go?
What di…
Always Growing: The Power of Pursuit
What are your communications like on a day to day basis?
What parts of the statement, “Pursuit is still necessary,” do you agree or disagree with?
What benefits are there t…
Always Growing: Riding the Storms
What storms of life come into people’s marriages?
What kind of storms or changes have you experienced in your marriage?
Matthew 8:24-25
How ca…
Always Growing: The Marriage Sandwich
What might your marriage sandwich check-ins look like?
What rituals of connection do you already have?
How does your stage of life impact your ability to connect and check…
Always Growing: Marriage in a Fallen World
How does the culture around you view people?
How do you think those cultural views impact marriages, your own and others? In other worlds, why does the fallen world…
Always Growing: Same and Different
What is the same about the two of you?
What is different about the two of you?
Ephesians 2:10
What are the tattoo discussions in your marriage?
How can do we grow by tal…
Ten Minutes of Church
Unpacking the baggage of the word “Church” What is it? Body of Christ, believers, gathering around the Word together The church in transformation
Very basic: Matthew 18:20 local community Gathering/m…
Ten Minutes of Laughter
Question of the day: Is God too serious?
God has a sense of humor, which is one of the reasons we have a sense of humor.
Why do we have a hard time seeing God as playful?
Then our mouth was fille…
Ten Minutes of Journeying
Episode 15 – Ten Minutes of Journey
Growth-orientation of the faith walk:
God bringing me from where I’m at to where He wants me to be.
Long history of journeying in Scripture, since the garden of …