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Parenting • Parenting

Focus resources gave this family help and hope in raising their special needs son

Families often need extra support when they have a special needs child – a reality Linda Ruth and her husband, Peter, know all too well. Their 13-year-old adopted son, Philip, is on the fetal alcohol syndrome disorder (FASD) scale, and faces many ...

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Resources • Marriage

Reclaiming Hope and Safety in a Destructive Marriage (Part 2 of 2)

Leslie Vernick

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Parenting • Family and relationships

50 games and activities to do with your kids

Playing games and doing activities with our kids is a fantastic opportunity to connect with them.

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Marriage • Anxiety

Living with anxiety: What you and your spouse need to know

In a marriage where only one spouse lives with anxiety, it can be difficult to navigate this dynamic together. How wi...

Marital conflict

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

Marriage • Pornography (women)

What you need to know about your husband's porn confession

Many women’s husbands have secret sexual lives. The unforeseen revelation of a husband’s lies sweeps away any remaini...

Marriage • Impact of kids

Loving your spouse with kids in the house

Here are a few ideas to consider as you work to keep your marriage a priority during the busy and unpredictable paren...

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Parenting • Physical health

When your child needs a COVID-19 test

How to make the procedure as stress-free as possible for your child.

Anxiety in kids and teens

Helping kids through one of the most common mental health challenges

Parenting • Learning and education

Boost your child's progress in school: Understand how your child differs from you

Differences between our learning experience and our child’s learning experience can mean we fail to recognize points ...

Parenting • Family and relationships

Do your kids know how to handle their emotions?

Here are four areas of emotional development you need to be cultivating as your children grow.

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Anxiety

What you need to know to feel equipped to live with your anxiety or help a loved one who struggles

Life Challenges • Grief and loss

Living through a season of loss

The antidote to the pain of loss is grieving. Amazingly, God designed pathways to healing but too often, instead of e...

Life Challenges • Mental health

Unpacking the stigma of depression

My great concern is that a lot of people, because of this shame-based thinking about depression, fail to reach out an...

Life Challenges • Anxiety

What we can do with our anxiety during a pandemic

We are not in acute, sudden danger nor are most of us completely unable to function. But we may fall somewhere on the...

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Faith and Culture • Society and culture

Apologetics for everyone: Some notes on defending the faith

Every follower of Jesus is called to do apologetics, in whatever circles God has placed us. But where to begin? Here ...

Apologetics

Resources for defending the Christian faith and answering challenging questions from the culture

Faith and Culture • Society and culture

Tennis and the creation mandate: Celebration, community and joy

For followers of Jesus watching the 2020 US Open on TV, the tennis tournament was a reminder of things we’ve taken fo...

Faith and Culture • Society and culture

The cultural mandate: Living as divine image-bearers

The cultural mandate is God’s original instruction for humanity. Properly grasped, it casts an inspiring, joyful visi...

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