One of the ways Focus on the Family Canada is here to serve you is through our series of original articles, which we publish for free online each month. In case you may have missed them, here are links to our latest articles related to marriage and parenting, as well as to faith and culture. If you want to receive them to your inbox each month, just sign up below and you’ll never miss an article! You’ll find inspirational and educational pieces that will strengthen your faith.

Why the Resurrection is the heart of Christianity
Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians offers one of the most concise summaries of the Gospel: Christ died for our sins, was buried, and was raised on the third day, according to the Scriptures. The language suggests this was a creedal statement already familiar in the early church, which Paul received and passed along to the Corinthians, calling it most important. The apostle then launched into an extensive defense and explanation of the Resurrection. Why? Because the Gospel is the central truth of the Christian faith, and the truth of the Gospel stands on the reality of the Resurrection. Then as now, the Resurrection has implications believers don’t always consider, but which offer powerful support for our faith.
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Find your hot-button issues to improve your marriage
Husbands and wives can learn to recognize their hot buttons. Once they do that, they can begin to avoid the frustrating cycle of reacting to each other’s underlying emotional fears and vulnerabilities.
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Free video series: Creating Healthy Beginnings for Young Children
Over the last few decades, we’ve made significant breakthroughs in our understanding of children’s emotional needs. It all comes down to the quality of the emotional connection between parent and child. It’s simply amazing what having a strong sense of attachment to their parent can do for a child – how that positive bond sets a child up to flourish psychologically and in their relationships with others. Parents can know all this, yet still struggle to understand how to cultivate that strong, healthy relationship with their child in their day-to-day interactions. In our new, free video series, Focus on the Family Canada counsellor Luke Campbell helps fill in those blanks for parents.
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Repentance and confession: Gifts from a kind, compassionate God
By looking at repentance and confession through the lens of Scripture, we may be pleasantly surprised to find our motivations fuelled more by God’s kindness and compassion than by his judgment.
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