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Vangie integrates faith-building into her sons’ education

As a home-schooling mom, Vangie often tries to supplement her son’s studies with educational Christian material. When she discovered Focus on the Family’s free World Explorers activity kit, she was grateful for this teaching tool that combined ge...

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Radio Broadcast Nov 26, 2021

Resources • Faith and Culture

Remembering the Gospel This Christmas

Allison Pittman

Guest: Allison Pittman

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Parenting • Family and relationships

Discovering your dad superpowers

Hone your natural skills for deeper connections with each person in your family.

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Marriage • Verbal and emotional abuse

What is spiritual abuse in marriage?

Spiritual abuse occurs when an oppressor establishes control and domination by using Scripture, doctrine or his “lead...

Marital conflict

Identify unhealthy conflict and learn new tools for being on the same team

Marriage • Anger

Don't let your spouse make you angry

When we take ownership of our own emotions and give up the blame game, we don’t see each other as the problem. Instea...

Marriage • Mental health

Do you need refreshment in your marriage?

We need refreshment — physical, mental, spiritual and emotional. We need to pause and check in with ourselves and our...

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Parenting • Faith building

How to answer your child's faith questions - Part 1

How do we know Jesus is really God's son? Why did Jesus have to die? Here are some answers to questions your child ma...

Parenting • Faith building

How to answer your child's faith questions - Part 2

Answers to help you when your kids ask "What does it mean to have a relationship with God?" or "Why should I obey God?"

Parenting • Learning and education

Keeping kids motivated to learn

How a child's success in school is connected to their vision for their future.

Parenting young adults

Guiding kids through the transition to adulthood

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Life Challenges • Marriage

What is sexual abuse in marriage?

In too many marriages, sex is not a picture of loving mutuality and intimacy but is tainted by domination and manipul...

Life Challenges • Family and relationships

When family secrets come out: How to work through your feelings and find a way forward

How you choose to process this new information can make all the difference: you want a healed heart, not a bitter one.

Verbal and emotional abuse

Identifying and finding freedom from this often overlooked relational abuse

Life Challenges • Grief (loss of spouse)

When you lose a spouse

No two people’s grief experience is the same, but I believe there tools that all grievers need if they want to proces...

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Faith and Culture • Society and culture

Women of the Reformation: Olympia Fulvia Morata

Olympia Fulvia Morata (1526-1555) was an Italian scholar whose brief life spanned the early years of the Reformation....

Faith and Culture • Society and culture

Women of the Reformation: Marguerite de Navarre

Throughout the history of the Church, God has continued to raise up women of faith who have used their positions of i...

Faith and Culture • Society and culture

The Reformation: Lasting impacts on church and culture

On October 31, 1517, Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the church door in Wittenberg, sparking the Protestant Ref...

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