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Build a thriving relationship with your teen

Whether you’re in the midst of raising teens, you have yet to reach that stage or those times are in your rear-view mirror, most everyone agrees they can be very difficult years to navigate. As you and I know, being a teenager is rife with challe...

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President’s Picks: Pass along the adventure of knowing Christ

Gary Chapman returns for Canadian tour

A couple discovers a perfect anniversary getaway at a Marriage Enrichment Retreat

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Radio Broadcast Aug 16, 2019

Resources • Faith and Culture

Following God’s Pace Instead of Your Own

Terry Looper

Guest: Terry Looper

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Marriage • Well-being

Healthy individuals create healthy marriages

A thriving marriage is made of two thriving individuals building a relationship together. That would explain why the ...

Faith and Culture • Faith and religion

Genres of the Bible: one story in diverse voices

The 66 books of the Bible tell a unified story of creation, fall, redemption and restoration. But they do so in a kal...

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Marriage • Faith and marriage

How to strengthen your spiritual connection in marriage

As a couple, we certainly understand the importance of building a shared spiritual relationship. Over the past 25 yea...

Marriage • Communication

Exhausted from trying to be the "perfect wife"?

As newlyweds who married after a brief courtship, my husband and I knew communication would be vital to our marriage....

Midlife marriage

Guidance for navigating this new season of life with all its joys and challenges

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Parenting • Development stages

Social and emotional milestones in child development

Save yourself unfounded worry or unnecessary frustration by understanding what your child is capable of at each devel...

Parenting teens

Helping you build a thriving relationship with your teen

Parenting • Evangelism

7 ways your kids can connect with God

As you nurture your child's faith, remember that your child may not connect with God in the same way that you do.

Parenting • Self image and identity

Silencing the voices of inadequacy as a dad

Fatherhood hurls men into the unknown and the unexpected. We ask ourselves the pivotal question, Do I have what it ta...

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Life Challenges • Marriage

4 hurdles to overcome after an affair

If you and your spouse are trying to rebuild your relationship after an affair, you will most likely face these same ...

Life Challenges • Parenting

The vicious truth about drug addiction and alcoholism

The teen who's asked Christ to be Lord of his life should know that drug use can damage his soul as well as his body.

Suicide

If you fear your child might be contemplating suicide, you need to talk to them right away to find out the truth

Life Challenges • Parenting

Loving your wayward child

No matter the scenario, it can be a time of stress, anxiety and heartbreak. Here are 10 things a parent can do when t...

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Women of faith

Inspiring and empowering stories of women in the Scriptures, church history and contemporary culture

Faith and Culture • Society and culture

Longing for a far country never visited

If created things are beautiful, and the longing they stir in the heart more beautiful still, then how much more surp...

Faith and Culture • World events

Apollo 11, the creation mandate and communion on the moon

Half a century on, the Apollo 11 moon landing remains the mother of all “Where were you?” moments. It awakened a nea...

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