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Life Challenges • Testimony

When she learned others struggle with anxiety, this woman felt less alone

One day, Maureen saw a Facebook ad from Focus on the Family Canada about a free booklet called Understanding and Navigating Anxiety. Thinking it was specific to COVID, she clicked on it and worked through the booklet, ecstatic to see that it addre...

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Radio Broadcast Oct 22, 2021

Resources • Faith and Culture

Sharing Your Faith with Boldness

David and Jason Benham

Guest: David and Jason Benham

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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 • 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...

Marital conflict

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

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...

Marriage • Stress

How to handle stress in marriage

We gradually learned how to respond more effectively to each other when we experienced stress by using the Comfort Ci...

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Parenting • Boundaries

Parenting young adults: Boundaries and limits when kids move back home

Setting boundaries and limits to minimize conflicts and maintain a great relationship.

Education and your child

Helping your child reach their full potential

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 • Family and relationships

Family estrangement: Six ways to reconcile with adult children

To repair a rift with your adult child, start by rebuilding trust and respect for each other.

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Life Challenges • Boundaries

Just annoying, or truly unsafe? How to navigate get-togethers with difficult family

Get help with deciding whether to attend that family event you've been dreading so much.

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...

Stress and burnout

Valuable tools and advice for navigating stress and burnout in your personal life, at work, in your marriage or as a parent

Life Challenges • Boundaries

How to deal wisely with manipulative people

God won’t manipulate, control or coerce human beings into obedience. And neither should we. Here's what to do if some...

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Faith and Culture • Society and culture

Why God made seasons: A revelation in contrasts

Why did God make the seasons the way he did in the first place? Since he designed all of creation to reflect some fac...

Faith and Culture • Society and culture

The meaning of work in God’s grand narrative

As with all things, the meaning of work is best understood when viewed through the lens of God’s grand narrative of c...

History and world events

Stories past and present, revealing God’s sovereign hand in the church, the world and current affairs

Faith and Culture • Society and culture

God’s sovereign kindness: The antidote for fear and division

God's sovereign kindness is in control of our world and of our lives. As followers of his Son Jesus, and by his empow...

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