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Focus on Marriage Podcast

Birth-Order and Biblical Examples

Focus on Marriage Podcast

Focus on the Family

Society & Culture, Relationships

4.71.7K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Every person, based on your birth-order, has strengths and weaknesses. Dr. Kevin Leman and Jim Daly address some of the biblical examples of how birth-order influences someone's personality. Plus, Erin and John discuss perfectionist spouses, and why striving for perfectionism is a bad idea for any marriage.

 

 

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0:00.0

God is at work and he's calling his people to rise in truth. Truth Rising is a powerful new

0:05.6

documentary from Focus on the Family in the Colson Center. See how ordinary Christians choose

0:11.1

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0:17.4

you can be a part of the change and become an agent of restoration.

0:22.4

Sign up at truthrising.com.

0:24.8

That's truthrising.com.

0:30.8

We've talked before here on this show about common patterns of behavior based on your birth order and how that affects your relationship.

0:42.9

I am a firstborn.

0:44.6

I'm punctual.

0:45.4

I make plans.

0:46.3

I delight in showing up in time.

0:48.3

Just as a point of note, I was really happy today because I was early and y'all weren't.

0:52.8

But I'm not holding that.

0:54.0

I'm firstborn. You're not not so you didn't pay attention to it

0:58.2

I was a peacemaker I was getting something this is one of the rare days that I got

1:02.3

something again you were serving your wife I was trying to and I failed yeah so I just

1:07.3

am kind of a little I think Jim Daly would say, tightly wound about some things.

1:12.5

My wife is so spontaneous and lucy goosey and let's try this.

1:16.9

It has been a challenge, but a good one for me to grow in that part of life.

1:21.8

I'm John Fuller, along with my focus colleagues, Aaron and Greg Smalley.

1:25.3

And Greg has the birth order approach to life given you any clarity on your habits and your kind of predispositions?

1:33.3

Yes, absolutely.

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