Week 1: Broken Is Good
- Brokenness becomes strength
- Hisstory
- Acceptance
Week 2: To Love and Be Loved
- Loneliness
- In His image of love
- Love is the fulfilling of the law
Week 3: Hateful and Hating One Another
- The genesis of relationship problems
- Corrupted by sin/designed for love
- Born again
- The best still falls short
Week 4: The Source of Love
- Love holds us together
- The root and the fruit
- Divine love begins where human love ends
- The love primer
Week 5: Our First Bonding Lessons
- Mother
- Father
- Now what?
- How does God reparent us?
- Willing to trust
Week 6: Brothers, Sisters, Friends
- Sibling rivalry and beyond
- How siblings shape us
- The benefits of friends
- Your brain on friends
- The how of friend-making
- The how of friend-keeping
Week 7: Sex, Plained
- Eros
- The Creator of sex
- Relationship-based sex
- The Coolidge effect
- God’s design
- The enemy’s diversions
Week 8: Dating, Courting, Engagement, and Beyond
- Falling in love
- A history
- Definitions
- Friendship dating, serious dating, engagement
Week 9: Then Two = One
- Male and female: Equal . . .
- But different
- God’s plan
- Reactive cycles? Go vertical
- Love thrives in freedom
- Tselem marriage
Week 10: One Sinner Parenting Another
- Support and control
- Dare to disciple—with freedom
- Consequences, natural and applied
- Tony
Week 11: Abuse Stops Here
- Hellhole home
- Effects of abuse
- Healing is possible
Week 12: The Lost Art of Talking
- Life is an onion
- Open up a workroom
- Empathy
- Listening to resolve conflict
- Dealing with feelings
Week 13: The Church of “If-All-Else-Fails”
- Yeah, right!
- One day a week to love
- A portrait of Jesus
Toolbox:
- Biblical Affirmations
- Blessed Are the Peacemakers
- Breaking Cycles
- Breathe Away Stress
- Common Defense Mechanisms
- Dating? Courting? Engaged?
- Distorted Thoughts
- Do I Have Love?
- Establishing Empathy With EAR
- Fact, Feeling, and Follow-Through
- FAR Exercise
- Feeling Words
- The Five Cs of Choosing a Life Partner
- Four Negative Patterns of Communication
- Gracious Assertiveness
- His Needs—Her Needs
- Important/Urgent Matrix
- Is It Love or Infatuation?
- Love Languages
- Love, the Fulfilling of the Law
- Parenting Competencies
- RAD Symptom Checklist
- Relationship Wound Inventory
- Sex Out of Bounds
- Social Skills 101
- Therapies That Have Helped PTSD
- Walking With Jesus
- The Work of the Holy Spirit